I've been following the Rams since 1967. I've travelled to watch Rams live games in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Seattle....and SB XIV in Pasadena.....so I have time and money invested in my affection for The Horns.
Why do I passionately follow the Rams?
For entertainment. For enjoyment......and I'm into my 53rd NFL season of doing so!
Given my investment, if the Ram product-on-the-field sucks, who is going to tell me not to kvetch and complain about the drop in quality, huh?
Who.....the OP writer?? He's gonna tell me I can't go negative in my posts???? Listen, I was negative on Georgia TheBlackWidow Frontiere, on Jay BaseballGuy Zymunt, on Scotty Flounder Linehan, on Jimbo HazMat, on Steve LittleNapolean Spagnuolo, Jeff FratHouseRules Fisher et al....and I will continue to complain about other folks I see screwing-up the Rams.
The OP writer says Wade Phillips D is better than Jeff Fisher's Ram D's of the past were. Um....that's Bullshit if you research PPG allowed! Look it up.
So if I want to post that the game seems to have passed the 72 year old Wade Oldman&TheD Phillips by.....then I will do just that!
Similarly, if I want to post that Aaron Kromer seems overrated TO ME as a groomer of fine OLine talent, when he sold McSnead the koolaid about Noteboom and Allen being capable replacements for Saffold and Sullivan, then I am going to write a post about it!
That doesn't make me disloyal or unfaithful to the Rams. It makes me an attentive and informed fan.
This is a Rams Talk Forum. Fans are free to come here and express their opinions on the Rams. Nobody should be scolding Rams fans about their opinions. You can disagree with my opinions, hopefully with some facts......but don't lecture adults about what their posts and opinions signify about them. That's called "projection".....and IMO nobody here needs to be told what to post, or not to be negative. We should all be free to post as we wish.
It would be a fooking boring world if we all thought the same!
Viva Les Differences!!!
Canuckramsfan
Vancouver, BC
There is plenty of space online for fans to find a place that caters to their vitriol. Your post sort of ignores or forgets this places origins as an alternative to the piss and vinegar soaked message boards where the basic internet ingrates offer incessant negativity.
There is a thin (blue and gold?) line between ROD and a YouTube comments thread and it's defined by the standards the mods and posters have set for themselves. This place wasn't designed to be a safe place for the chronically bitchy, but for the fans who want to discuss their team without wading upstream through pages of doom and gloom.
Someone's financial investments into this team or length of tooth as a fan doesn't give them a pass to make this place reflect their own misery or change the standards that made this place so great in the decade of depression. If we all wanted another 2007 era post dispatch ramstalk board or a YouTube comments thread, all we have to do is let the most toxic run the show.
Sure, our 3 game losing streak has sadly validated the bullshit they have been pushing since before 1 and 0, through 3 and 0 and promising to be here at 3 and 13 or 13 and 3.
If it's in the GDT or a vent thread, there is a place for it. Like a shooting range, we ask they fire their shots in a certain area that won't riddle the other areas with their bullets. Yes, they have their rights but we can't have everyone shooting in the street.
Vent threads after wins, negativity in a positives thread, the GDT being pure unfiltered angst and despair if we are winning or not....
I just don't want to see the loudest, angriest and most emotional posting become the rule and not the exception. Then ROD is just like anywhere else.
It's obvious it's not just one or two posters who are weary of it. Where there is smoke there's fire.
At best this season promises to be a stressful one and at worst it will get unbearable fast if we let the Jokers run Arkham.
Jmo opinion as a lowly nobody.
