Reaction of Cardinal fans

[blackbart]

LOL fans everywhere are the same, good to see them melting down instead of us.

 

[RamUK]

I‘m intrigued, what happened?

I was on business at the Peabody (it hInk) in Nashville at a conference and contrived an appointment in Minneapolis so that I could get to a Rams game. I'd previously planned this and I honestly can't remember how I did it now, but I already had a ticket!

My employer was all in, so rather than flying back to the UK I left my colleague to go home and flew up north.

It was the game where we lost to a safety in OT, when JE was sacked.

Late 80s' maybe?

I spent most of the game sat next to, and talking with the great Kevin Greene's parents. It was awesome. They were such lovely people and made me so welcome and loved that a Brit had gone to so much trouble to get to a game. How onm earth was KG not a Ram for life?

Towards the end we were clearly going to win so I moved down to the front to find a better seat as so many were empty.

I immediately got grief, but that went through the roof when they tied the score and fans surged back in.

The c*** whose seat I had taken came in and demanded it back. I told him he was a lightweight for leaving early and refused to move.

It got a bit heated. Very heated.

In all honesty, a bunch of Vikings fans supported me and were nice but I had to give the dick his seat back then when we lost it was utterly horrible.

It was so fucking cold after the game walking back on my own and I've never been to a Rams game on my own since.

I have some great Rams game stories.

My first 2 live games combined a total of 13 points. a 7-0 Anaheim preseason win over the Oilers and a 6-0 loss in New Orleans the following year (I think).

HTW do you attend 2 games and only see 13 points ffs.

We should start a thread after the season about game-day experiences. I have a lot and I'm sure others do too.

 

[HX76]

What sounds like it was quite good for the most part ended shitty. Times like that when you are desperate to win just to shut the prick up and inevitably it doesn’t happen.

Isn’t the Peabody the hotel where the ducks come out of the lift and get in the fountain??

 

[Classic Rams]

I probably prefer the Cards to the Bears just because of that game when I naively thought we could stop the 46 D and they shut us out.

Something happened in that game with a Sean Landetta punt that was bad luck for us (I think) but I can't remember what it was now. Does anybody remember?

That was the 1985 season during the playoffs and Landeta completely whiffed on a punt in Chicago and the Giants lost 21-0 to the Bears.

 

[Classic Rams]

It was the game where we lost to a safety in OT, when JE was sacked.

Late 80s' maybe?

Everett was 0-3 vs Vikings in the 80s.

He was never sacked for a safety though.

In 1989 Vikings won in OT on a blocked punt safety by Merriweather at their dome. That's when Karlis had like 7 FGs and Herschel Walker was on the team.

Vikings were down 21-18 in the 4th when a FG sent it into OT, which could explain why that pussy fake fan left early. I laugh at fans who give up and leave early then try to get back in. I was bashing Heat fans for doing that years ago.

 

[Oregonram]

Not really. Go back and look at the play. Williams was in a position to make a play on the ball to either PD it or INT. A FG would have kept it at a one-possession game.

The real reason they lost is because of Kliff going for it on 4th downs twice and not taking the easy points. Had he done so they would have had 6 more points. Kliff is a poor game manager, always has been.

I give Kyler one maybe two more years before he's so banged up he's done. He's going to feel that continuing as a running NFL QB is truly sacrificing his health and MLB option. MLB is going to start looking better all the time. Kyler told Kliff he needed to become a pocket passer, and he has done so more this year. That said throwing from the pocket is not the same as being a pocket passer who reads defenses.

That game had a lot of moving parts with a whole lot of what if's. The Rams easily could have had an INT in the end zone taking away a score. But Williams couldn't hold on. So playing the what-if game doesn't work unless you include all the what-ifs.

What if the refs called the face mask on third down? Rams would have had fresh set of downs and first and goal.

 

[oldnotdead]

Not just the facemask then but there was a helmet strike on Stafford that was ignored earlier that would have extended a drive.

 

[drsnook]

What if the refs called the face mask on third down? Rams would have had fresh set of downs and first and goal.

It beggars belief that the refs didn't see the facemask. Stafford's head went full 90 degrees and the helmet went >100 degrees to where his nose was practically poking out the earhole. A Rams player even grazes an opponent's facemask, 7 flags fly instantly. There is literally and actually one official whose sole job is to watch what happens to the QB every second of every play.

 

[thirteen28]

Vikings were down 21-18 in the 4th when a FG sent it into OT, which could explain why that pussy fake fan left early.

Yeah, you never leave early.

I remember sitting in a sports bar in Charlotte, NC, 1989, when the Rams were down to the Saints 17-3, at NO, with only a few minutes left in the 4th quarter and without Henry Ellard (the game where Flipper set the single-game receiving yards record). It had largely been a shitshow up to that point but nagging little voice in my head kept saying "don't leave" ... so I didn't. Then we scored two TD's in the final 3 minutes to send it into overtime and won when Lansford hit a FG. So glad I stayed. Man, their must have been a foot of air between the soles of my shoes and the ground when I walked out of the place that night and I had to turn sideways to get my smile through the door.

 

[PARAM]

Cardinals?
Seahawks?
Niners?

Niners are currently and have been the oldest and biggest rival of the Rams.
Seahawks were the biggest rival of the St. Louis Rams
Cardinals were the first St. Louis team and I actually enjoyed watching them when they were in the 5 team NFC East. Jim Hart, Don Coryell, Jim Hanifan. Once they moved to the desert, I enjoyed watching Jake the Snake but once they joined the West and Warner took them to a Superbowl, I hated them.

 

[So Ram]

Cardinals?
Seahawks?
Niners?

Niners are currently and have been the oldest and biggest rival of the Rams.
Seahawks were the biggest rival of the St. Louis Rams
Cardinals were the first St. Louis team and I actually enjoyed watching them when they were in the 5 team NFC East. Jim Hart, Don Coryell, Jim Hanifan. Once they moved to the desert, I enjoyed watching Jake the Snake but once they joined the West and Warner took them to a Superbowl, I hated them.

Yeah - Dan Dierdorf !! Great HOF.just ask him.Talk about John Madden.Was there anyone better ?

 

[So Ram]

Roy Green was great.

My favorite was Terry Metcalf from Long Beach State. Eric Metcalfs dad.

Talk about 2 of the best PR guys in NFL history.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Murray is a smaller version of Russell Wilson in his prime. It does seem that Murray is likely to have a shorter career.

The book has been out on beating Wilson, thanks to Fisher and Williams. It’s the same book for Murray and it just needs to be executed. Leonard Floyd had a few gaffes in their second meeting but fortunately fewer than he had in the first one. Contain Murray and the odds of winning go way up. Especially against a good defense….or at least a good Defensive line.

 

[Ramon Ram]

You're probably thinking of the game the previous week, when the Bears crushed the Giants in the divisional round and Sean Landeta completely whiffed on a punt because the wind blew it away after he dropped it.

What happened in the 85 Bear game was:
1- On the first Bear punt after we stopped them their center Tinglehoff broke Ellards ribs taking him out of the game
2- On our best chance of the day to get out in front Brock missed Brown on a slant that would have gone to the house putting us ahead 7-0 and then who knows
3- Buddy Ryan predicted Dickerson would lay it on the ground and he did.

No way we should have been a shutout victim in that game but the rest is history as they say.

 

[Merlin]

How onm earth was KG not a Ram for life?

Yeah I agree it was such BS. He was my favorite Ram for years. To the point where I felt betrayed when he left. Now of course I realize the fault lies with the Rams and their shit owner for letting him go (thanks Georgia) but for many years it killed me to see him playing for the Steelers.

I met the dude later on in Hawaii btw when I was stationed there. But gotta say one of the things I love now about this team is there's a good chance we will retain our best players. That's something you can't take for granted nowadays and I certainly won't... Because of how that shit went down with Greene (and others).

 

[thirteen28]

Found on Reddit ... couldn't help but post here:

 

[oldnotdead]

Take away his first two short (within 10 yds) reads and contain him and he's toast against a good pass rush. Thats been the book on Murray for years and still is. For the most part that is what Morris did. But he kept backing off because he's scared. Nothing worse than a DC or OC that calls a game out of fear. He says he doesn't care about stats. That is BS because he keeps backing off when they have a lead allowing the other team to stay in the game. He backs off because he's scared of being beat and it's the wrong thing to do. When you have them on the ropes you keep them there.

 

[Ramlock]

Isn’t the Peabody the hotel where the ducks come out of the lift and get in the fountain??

Yes, it is

 

[RamUK]

Everett was 0-3 vs Vikings in the 80s.

He was never sacked for a safety though.

In 1989 Vikings won in OT on a blocked punt safety by Merriweather at their dome. That's when Karlis had like 7 FGs and Herschel Walker was on the team.

Vikings were down 21-18 in the 4th when a FG sent it into OT, which could explain why that pussy fake fan left early. I laugh at fans who give up and leave early then try to get back in. I was bashing Heat fans for doing that years ago.

The internet has killed remembering shit.

That all sounds about right. I doubt we lost too many games to an OT safety in Minnesota in the 80s.

Don't go telling me I didn't have a huge dick then though because I distinctly remember it was a lot bigger than now.
I mean, a LOT bigger.

Honestly, it was.

 

[RamUK]

That was the 1985 season during the playoffs and Landeta completely whiffed on a punt in Chicago and the Giants lost 21-0 to the Bears.

Jeez, I had him playing for us. In those days my only games were on scratchy Armed Forces Network on AM lying in bed trying to stay awake. Memory is a weird thing because I thought WE had had some punting bad luck, but maybe I'm, conflating two games.