The 1988 Rams - This is a team I remember so well....

[Faceplant]

This popped into my YouTube drip and I had to share. This takes me back. So many great rams, Ellard, Bell, Everett, Greene, Holohan, Gray, etc... .also, what's with the no win Novembers with these rams, haha


View: https://youtu.be/mDSEHkkOmyQ?si=D5JTjsKu7aj8tux-

 

[Da-Rock]

1988...........like they had people back then!

 

[Loyal]

This popped into my YouTube drip and I had to share. This takes me back. So many great rams, Ellard, Bell, Everett, Greene, Holohan, Gray, etc... .also, what's with the no win Novembers with these rams, haha


View: https://youtu.be/mDSEHkkOmyQ?si=D5JTjsKu7aj8tux-

That blonde with a pony tail, really revs my engine! ~ @OldSchool

 

[OldSchool]

That blonde with a pony tail, really revs my engine! ~ @OldSchool

Yeah baby!

 

[Ground Chuck]

That blonde with a pony tail, really revs my engine! ~ @OldSchool

“Is @Loyal talking about Kevin Greene?”
- @Merlin

 

[Ground Chuck]

I loved those teams in the late eighties. I do wish the Rams could have kept Dickerson and somehow had a balance of the late eighties passing attack, and the dominant running of that ‘84-’87 team.

I never understood why they couldn’t coexist. I know, I know- that blonde with the pony tail would not pay ED. Too bad we missed a window that could have threw a bucket of cold water on that Niner decade of dominance.

 

[PARAM]

That year was the springboard to the 89 season. Sure, an ugly loss to SF in the CCG but it's easy to forget that was just Everett's 3rd full NFL season. 10 years later TGSOT arrived and then a dozen years after that McVay. We need McVay's tenure to be as pleasurable for him as it is for us because the longer he stays around the longer this run will be. Part of the 70's were fun; part of the 80's were fun, TGSOT was a flash in the pan but the current Rams are set up for a decade long (or more) run. It's a great time to be a Ram fan.

 

[Ground Chuck]

So true. I was at that ‘89 NFCCG at Candlestick. Mortifying. Humiliating. The first quarter was all Rams. Then Ronnie Lott happened.

 

[OldSchool]

“Is @Loyal talking about Kevin Greene?”
- @Merlin

At first I thought he meant Coach Robinson

 

[den-the-coach]

I never understood why they couldn’t coexist. I know, I know- that blonde with the pony tail would not pay ED. Too bad we missed a window that could have threw a bucket of cold water on that Niner decade of dominance.

That always seemed to be a problem, they paid him a couple of times, but eventually, they parted ways thinking this was just going to be an ongoing event. Obviously they squandered the draft choices, although initially, the trade looked good with Bell and some youth and ILB Freddie Strickland played well initially, however, the Gaston Green pick sunk them, if they had taken Thurman Thomas over Green and Chris Spielman over Strickland, it would have been a different story.

 

[thirteen28]

My first Rams game in person was that season. Against the Seahawks at the Big A. Was just getting out of the navy, making my way from Hawaii to North Carolina and took a detour to finally see a Rams game live. Life was good.


View: https://youtu.be/7K344HLbIm0?si=NfGAzt0Hyc_GGFTh

 

[Loyal]

My first Rams game in person was that season. Against the Seahawks at the Big A. Was just getting out of the navy, making my way from Hawaii to North Carolina and took a detour to finally see a Rams game live. Life was good.


View: https://youtu.be/7K344HLbIm0?si=NfGAzt0Hyc_GGFTh

I got out in Aug/'88. Of course I got off a real ship...

 

[So Ram]

“Is @Loyal talking about Kevin Greene?”
- @Merlin

What a freaking Stud!! Was in HB,ca OG & Green was on a date across the next table.My friends who were SF fans were talking smack to ask him about his contract.
-What a shame The Rams
Let him walk. He did well the the LOVE,Bus as a couple other Rams that helped them.

 

[Allen2McVay]

... Was in HB,ca OG & Green was on a date across the next table.

 

[Ground Chuck]

I got out in Aug/'88. Of course I got off a real ship...

Me too Brotha! Got out July/88 actually on the ultimate badass ship (Ironically based in Seattle)

 

[thirteen28]

I got out in Aug/'88. Of course I got off a real target...

Fixed it for ya!

 

[CoachAllred]

i loved Ellard.
I also was a Everett fan but that opinion led to disdain

 

[AZRams]

That was a year of unfulfilled promise...7-2 at the midway point, looking like they could hang with any of the big boys (SF, NYG) only to stumble late and sneak their way into the playoffs and go out quietly.

 

[AZRams]

Cox and Anderson were both rookies that year, and as I recall, Cox showed more that first season.

Football is weird sometimes.

 

[AZRams]

Cox and Anderson were both rookies that year, and as I recall, Cox showed more that first season.

Football is weird sometimes.

And lastly, that NYG game gave us Keith Obermann's (then a local sports guy at KCBS) best quip ever:

"The Giants suffered from a case of Delpino envy."