Where did you get your RAMS news back in the day?

[Frogbelly]

Correction. Healy

 

[Riverumbbq]

This is how we kept score in the late 50's :

 

[…..]

There was about 6 years there in the late 80's to early 90's where my only news about the Rams came via the Stars and Stripes. I had a pretty good breakfast routine where I would scour the sports page for as much detail as I could get, usually just a paragraph. Most real info coming from box scores.

 

[Boston Ram]

Growing up in Boston the only reliable news I could get was from the Sporting News. Every NFL team was covered in the last section. I would wait for every Thursday to get my paragraph of Rams news!! Thank you internet!!

 

[den-the-coach]

Okay, The Sporting News was everything to me back then, even had a small paragraph about every NFL team during the off season, which was Biblical to me. Also I would bike or take public transportation to the Public Library in order to read the LA Times, which to me was unreal that I could open to the sports section to read about my beloved Los Angeles Rams, Dodgers, Lakers & Kings.

 

[T-REX]

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/t...-phone-the-1980s-way-to-get-real-time-scores/

I drove my parents crazy, every time I saw the phone bill come in the mail I would mysteriously disappear for most of the day.

 

[MadGoat]

Okay, The Sporting News was everything to me back then, even had a small paragraph about every NFL team during the off season, which was Biblical to me. Also I would bike or take public transportation to the Public Library in order to read the LA Times, which to me was unreal that I could open to the sports section to read about my beloved Los Angeles Rams, Dodgers, Lakers & Kings.

The Sporting News paragraph on the Rams was always so small, but it was worth it.

 

[Gandalf]

I seems to recall a national weekly paper type publication known as Rampages.I'm talking late 60's early 70"s. Along with the Herald and the Times. A writer named Bob Oates comes to mind as well as Melvin Durslag. Jim Murray delivered the funny side of the story occasionally too.

I used to get the Rampages, Sporting News and Pro Football Weekly. It was tough back in the day. Two games a week on TV, no Monday night Football and no football shows to watch. I used to have to look for the ticker across the screen to get the score, because living in Colorado I was stuck watching the Broncos every week. I used to go to the library and read newspapers from other cities.
Nothing like today, when somebody farts you can read about it.

 

[Prime Time]

 

[Legatron4]

Every Tuesday I would go downstairs and ask my dad if the Rams won. He always handed me a newspaper. The Rams lost, like most of the time.

 

[-X-]

Pro Football Weekly. The weekly magazine that came every Thursday in the mail back when the internet was on paper.
Freaking youngbloods,

Yep, me too. But I used to ride my bike to "The Corner Newsstand" (an actual store) to buy it.

 

[rdlkgliders]

Herald, Sporting News, Times....AM radio
And does anyone remember the National "Sports Daily" It was only around a little while in early 90's (I think) only sports and you bought it out of a newspaper machine. Ran M - F Weekly

 

[Dodgersrf]

Back in my day we had dial up. It took forever to get my news.

Back in the day. I was ecstatic that there was such a thing!

 

[Dodgersrf]

I would grab any paper that had Rams news.
The Sporting News had a weekly paragraph about every team, that came out every Thursday. I would drive to 7/11 every Thursday to get it. Sometimes I had to go back later in the day if it hadn't arrived yet.
I would also grab OC register AND the LA times. USA today would also do a small right up on every team that came out on Tuesday. I bought that religiously as well.
AM radio has always been a vine, but as always, you have to wait out all the BS. Still do.

My parents got a computer back in the early to mid nineties. The connection was so damn slow, yet it was amazing that I could get information within 3 minutes ! WOW! I was in heaven!

 

[Classic Rams]

Hawaii newspapers and anything else I could get when we traveled out of state in 1976-1977. Sports illustrated too. Started collecting Monday's LA Times in 1978 from the local bookstore (on Tuesdays). When USA today came out in the mid-80s I got that too. Libraries were my backup in case the stores didn't have the Times. ESPN back when it was very watchable in the 80s-90s. I tried the Rampages in 1991 and was very disappointed in their filler crap so I ended it later that year. Then I got internet in 1995, with the dial up screech and graphic of the electricity going to the key.

 

[99Balloons]

The Orange County Register.

 

[SteveBrown]

library

 

[tiger1971]

Getting any NFL news in the UK in the 1980's and 1990's was difficult.

Ceefax and Teletext managed to serve up the score, usually on the Monday morning
http://www.pagesfromceefax.net/

Other than that I would occasionally buy USA Today on a Monday as well.

 

[RamsSince1969]

The Ventura County Star Free Press.

 

[Ramstien]

I remember before we even had computers getting all my information on the Rams from a few different magazines and one of them was exclusively about the Rams. I remember one of the covers featured John Cappelletti and another featured Jim Bertelson. The good thing back then is they were in the same division as the Falcons and I would go to a Ram game every year with my Dad in Atlanta.