The St. Louis Rams are an older NFL team. They began enjoying in 1936 and were originally in Cleveland, Ohio. They were previously the Cleveland Rams and have been a constitution member of the second American Football League. At present they play in the Western Division of the NFC in the National Soccer League. The group has two NFL Championships under their belt and one Super Bowl victory.
The group became referred to 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 taking part in their video games within the Anaheim Stadium. They played there for 15 years and stored the Los Angeles name. Then the group was moved to St. Louis just before the 1995 season.
Homer Marshman was the Cleveland Rams founder in 1936. Their title got here from the nickname from Fordham University. Rams was a time period that was used to honor the soccer players' onerous work ethic that came from the University of the identical name. They had been originally of the brand new American soccer League and they finished their first yr with a 5-2-2 record.
It was the following yr that the group joined the NFL and was positioned in the Western Division. They were like a variety of the groups from that period in that the manpower shortages brought on by World Conflict II triggered them to should droop play throughout the 1943 season. They did resume play in 1944 and had a winning season in 1945 in Ohio. They had 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 owner turned fed up with poor attendance on the video games at Cleveland Stadium and decided to move the Rams to Los Angeles. This made them the first NFL professional soccer group on the west coast. They leased the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum and the group performed there from 1946-1979. When the owner, Dan Reeves passed away in 1971, the Colt's proprietor took over the team. His identify was Carroll Rosenbloom. He was instrumental in having the Rams started the move to play in Anaheim Stadium in 1980.
Georgia Rosenbloom inherited the team after her husband's death in 1979 while her stepson grew to become the crew's manager. Two weeks later, she fired him.
Within the 1995 and 196 seasons the Rams had been coached by head coach Wealthy Brooks. Then dick Vermeil was hired as head coach in 1997. He stayed with the team until he retired after the 2000 season. This was the season where the Rams gained Tremendous Bowl XXXIV in opposition to Tennessee Titans. Mike Martz was the coach for the subsequent year where the Rams have been again in the Super Bowl but bought beat by the New England Patriots. That year noticed the start of a type of downward spiral for the Rams. They do have some outstanding gamers that have been very profitable with the team. One is the talented Steven Jackson from Oregon State.
After a 28 yr colourful ownership stint of the Rams, Georgia Frontier handed away in January of 2008. The ownership of the team has been passed down to the son Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom and her daughter Lucia Rodriquez. Chip Rosenbloom is the brand new Rams majority owner.
The Rams are known to be first pro soccer staff to have a brand on their helmet. A team halfback by the name of Fred Gehrke painted "ram Horns" on the staff's helmets for the 1948 season. This has been the club's emblem ever since.
The team has changed colours a number of times. They were purple and black in 1937 and adjusted to yellow and blue in 1938. Then they went to stable yellow within the mid 1940s with the yellow gold horns on a blue helmet. Then in 1964, the colors were again changed to blue and white. They've changed around their colours on a consistent basis and in 2008 the group was wearing a white jersey with blue pants when they beat the Dallas Cowboys in October by a score of 34-14.