Who was your first head coach and quarterback?

[LuvMeThemRams]

Thought this would be light but interesting.

Who was the head coach and quarterback when you first became a Rams fan?

For me it was Tommy Prothro and Roman Gabriel. The 49ers were our arch enemy, Dick Nolan as head coach and John Bodie as QB.

 

[dieterbrock]

Ray Malavasi with Ferragamo and Haden from my deepest recollection.
However rumor has it that I became a Rams fan because of Joe Namath, and that would be Chuck Knox. I honestly don't remember that

 

[OldSchool]

Ray Malavasi with Ferragamo and Haden from my deepest recollection.
However rumor has it that I became a Rams fan because of Joe Namath, and that would be Chuck Knox. I honestly don't remember that

It was Super Bowl 14 for me so Ferragamo and Malavasi.

 

[Loyal]

I know that I was confused a little watching NFL games when I was 4-5 years old. I remember Roman Gabriel, but I didn't remember the HC. The first season that I really had a grasp of things was in 1973. Chuck Knox and John Hadl and Merlin Olsen!

 

[Prime Time]

Bob Waterfield was the head coach and Zeke Bratkowski was the starting QB. This would be 1961.

 

[jetplt67]

Similar to Dieter; I was already a Rams fan but the signing of Joe Namath was about the time I started learning their names. I was about 8.

 

[VegasRam]

Billy Wade and Sid Gilman - 1958

 

[…..]

Chuck Knox and James Harris.

But who I remember was John Capaletti and Cullen Bryant.

 

[Memento]

Vermeil and Kurt Warner. Yeah, I became a fan in 1999-2000.

 

[PressureD41]

1984

John Robinson Jeff Kemp & Vince Ferragamo and the great ED29. Loved their secondary by the way

 

[Stump23]

Chuck Knox, John Hadl, James Harris, Pat Haden, Joe Namath. I used to go to training camp at Cal State Fullerton every summer. They drove Joe Willie in a Buick from the locker room to the practice field.

 

[DR RAM]

Chuck Knox, John Hadl, James Harris, Pat Haden, Joe Namath. I used to go to training camp at Cal State Fullerton every summer. They drove Joe Willie in a Buick from the locker room to the practice field.

Same group of names. I remember my dad talking about Roman Gabriel, and I watched NFL films too, so I was familiar with the old timers also.

 

[Karate61]

1974 Chuck Knox, James Harris & Lawrence McCutcheon. But, at age 7 here, it was Cappalletti that caught my attention.

 

[rafa]

Sam Bradford and Spagnuolo, 2010. lol

 

[rdlkgliders]

George Allen/Roman

 

[baconandbread]

The first coach/QB combo I remember would be John Robinson with Jim Everett as quarterback in 1987. I only watched them occasionally prior to that (about 1984, I think)

 

[norcalramfan]

George Allen/Roman

Ditto

 

[Rainram]

‘88-‘89 years is what I remember the most. Robinson/Everett. Ellard and Flipper. (Oh, how my dad despised Georgia Frontiere!)

I vaguely remember Dickerson, but became more immersed in all things Rams in the late 80’s.

It went down hill pretty quick for me as a fan after that...90’s were painful as the Rams descended and the Niners were a premier team (screw Rice/Montana, and that slant they’d run all the damn time).

We got some reprieve in ‘99-‘01. But I felt we blew an opportunity to be a true dynasty. Especially when we had 3 first round picks to play with in ‘01.

And then pure, absolute misery for 15 years.

We deserve a re-birth! I hope McVay/Goff are the real deal for a decade!

 

[nighttrain]

Billy Wade and Sid Gilman - 1958

both of us!
train

 

[Angry Ram]

Vermeil and Kurt Warner. Yeah, I became a fan in 1999-2000.

Hell yeah. Our millennial fandom matters lol.