GAME DAY The Early Games - Week 8
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Their defense is predictably shit once again though, so it's not like it can make them much worse when they're already giving up 27.5 ppg.
Campbell's biggest problem as HC has been his DC hires and quality of players on the defensive side of the ball. Idjit.
What a catch by Michael Wilson on that TD that tied the game, that dude goes all out on every play
In early 1999, as the NFL playoffs were about to swing into action, I was visiting a fellow who was a friend of mine and he was reading the sports section of the Augusta Chronicle (remember print editions?). He was reading an article about the Minute Scrotum BiQueens which was of course enumerating all of the impressive feats that the '98 queens had accomplished. At one point, he seemed to be amazed that the kicker HAD NOT MISSED A KICK ALL SEASON.
My hatred of the queens kicked in and instinctively, I retorted, "he's going to miss one and it's going to bite them in the ass."
Around the same time, a gentleman who worked in the same Maintenance Activity as I was apprised by me that the queens "do not have a championship caliber defense" and he was asked, "who has the bigger windup, Randall Cunningham or Hodeo Nomo?", the implication being that Cunningham has a slow release.
In the NFCCG against the fallcons, the queens were leading late in the first half and had the football at their own twenty yard line or thereabouts.
HC Dennis Green decided he wanted more and called for a seven step drop and a throw downfield.
When Nomo, I mean Cunningham, pulled the ball back, RDE Chuck Smith strip sacked him and the fallcons subsequently recovered the ball and scored a TD to narrow the margin to 20-14.
Moving ahead to the fourth quarter, Gary Anderson missed a 39 yard FG attempt that likely would have clinched the game for the queens. FEEL THE BITE!!!
The fallcons subsequently marched 70 yards to tie the score 27 all with less than a minute remaining. There's that defense doing their part to make me feel Nostradamus-like.
When the queens received the subsequent kickoff, Green, apparently spooked by the result of the first half turnover, chose to kneel down on third down and play for overtime. Hence, him becoming known as da knee Green.
The fallcons, of course, won in OT on a Morten Andersen FG and the queens got served a big fresh helping of KARMA for what fans of the LA RAMS had to endure in the seventies.
When Andersens' kick went through the uprights, I calmly walked out my front door into the front yard and let out a holler that could be heard two blocks over.
Cn you tell I LOATHE the Minute Scrotum BiQueens?
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In my time on ROD, I have approximately a dozen posts referencing or summarizing the following:
I became a die-hard Rams' fan in 1969 ... almost 60 years.
I remember every playoff win ... and ... every playoff loss.
For me personally, in my 57 years of watching the Rams, the two worst losses (Super Bowls aside) were the 1974 and 1976 NFC Championsip Game losses in Minnesota ... and for the exact same reason ... in my opinion, the Rams were the better team those two days. I was barely a teenager but I still feel the pain.
Last year's playoff loss in Seattle was the third time in my lifetime that I felt that way.
To be THAT CLOSE to the Super Bowl, and come-up short is very diffiult to deal with but it's down-right BRUTAL when you believe your team was better at that moment.
For me personally, the WORST THREE Playoff Eliminations in 57 years.
The Rams lost other NFC Championship Games over the years but they were NOT the better team on those days in those games. There have been some brutal playoff losses but not Conference Championships.
I get and understand the hatred ... I share it.
ALL THAT BEING SAID, I stand by my original comment that led to your initial reply ...
Minnesota has a top-Defense thus far in 2026. Its starting D-Line of Jalen Redmond, Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins and Levi Drake Rodriguez is a fairly unknown group comprised of an undrafted free agent, plus a 5th and 7th round pick ... and ... hatred of that franchise aside ... THAT is Fucking Impressive.
I still like you and I enjoy your posts but you are a little ...
Your comments about the Vikings playoffs losses and even the Dallas one, only because I hated the Cowboys too back then, reminds me about that period and how it felt. I was a miserable, down in the dumps, don't talk to me for a few days type of fan then.
Still am.
But now it's the effing Chickens instead of the little 'ole Cowpies that I really hate losing too. They're probably on an equal level with the Whiners to me now.
And as you said, many Rams fans believe that the Rams were the better team on that day, last season in Seattle.