The St. Louis Rams are an older NFL team. They started enjoying in 1936 and had been initially in Cleveland, Ohio. They had been previously the Cleveland Rams and were a charter member of the second American Soccer League. At current they play in the Western Division of the NFC in the National Soccer League. The team has two NFL Championships below their belt and one Super Bowl victory.
The team grew to become often known as the Rams of Los Angeles after they moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. Then after the 1979 season, they moved to the south suburbs in Orange County subsequent door and began enjoying their video games in the Anaheim Stadium. They played there for 15 years and stored the Los Angeles name. Then the crew was moved to St. Louis just before the 1995 season.
Homer Marshman was the Cleveland Rams founder in 1936. Their identify got here from the nickname from Fordham University. Rams was a time period that was used to honor the soccer gamers' exhausting work ethic that came from the College of the same name. They have been initially of the new American soccer League and so they finished their first yr with a 5-2-2 record.
It was the following yr that the team joined the NFL and was positioned in the Western Division. They were like a whole lot of the teams from that period in that the manpower shortages brought on by World Warfare II precipitated them to need to droop play in the course of the 1943 season. They did resume play in 1944 and had a successful season in 1945 in Ohio. They'd a 9-1 season document and received their first NFL Championship. They beat the Washington Redskins in December 16, with a score of 15-14 at home.
It was in 1946 that the Ram's proprietor became fed up with poor attendance at the video games at Cleveland Stadium and decided to maneuver the Rams to Los Angeles. This made them the first NFL professional football team on the west coast. They leased the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum and the team performed there from 1946-1979. When the owner, Dan Reeves passed away in 1971, the Colt's owner took over the team. His name was Carroll Rosenbloom. He was instrumental in having the Rams started the transfer to play in Anaheim Stadium in 1980.
Georgia Rosenbloom inherited the crew after her husband's loss of life in 1979 while her stepson turned the staff's manager. Two weeks later, she fired him.
In the 1995 and 196 seasons the Rams have been coached by head coach Wealthy Brooks. Then dick Vermeil was employed as head coach in 1997. He stayed with the crew till he retired after the 2000 season. This was the season the place the Rams won Tremendous Bowl XXXIV towards Tennessee Titans. Mike Martz was the coach for the next 12 months the place the Rams were once more within the Super Bowl but acquired beat by the New England Patriots. That 12 months saw the beginning of a type of downward spiral for the Rams. They do have some outstanding players which have been very successful with the team. One is the proficient Steven Jackson from Oregon State.
After a 28 yr colourful ownership stint of the Rams, Georgia Frontier handed away in January of 2008. The possession of the crew has been passed all the way down to the son Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom and her daughter Lucia Rodriquez. Chip Rosenbloom is the new Rams majority owner.
The Rams are known to be first pro football group to have an emblem on their helmet. A crew halfback by the name of Fred Gehrke painted "ram Horns" on the group's helmets for the 1948 season. This has been the club's emblem ever since.
The crew has modified colors several times. They were red and black in 1937 and altered to yellow and blue in 1938. Then they went to stable yellow in the mid 1940s with the yellow gold horns on a blue helmet. Then in 1964, the colours had been once more changed to blue and white. They've modified around their colors on a constant foundation and in 2008 the team was carrying a white jersey with blue pants when they beat the Dallas Cowboys in October by a rating of 34-14.