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St Louis Rams

Year founded: 1936


Helmet	Logo

City

St. Louis, Missouri

Team colors

New Century Gold, Millennium Blue, and White

Head Coach

Scott Linehan@:(

Owner

Georgia Frontiere and Stan Kroenke

General manager

Charlie Armey

League/Conference affiliations

National Football League (1937–present)

Western Division (1937-1949)
National Conference (1950-1952)
Western Conference (1953-1969)
- Coastal Division (1967-1969)
National Football Conference (1970-present)
- NFC West (1970-present)

Team history

Cleveland Rams (1936-1945)
Los Angeles Rams (1946-1994)
St Louis Rams (1995–present)

Championships

League Championships (3)

NFL Championships (2)
1945, 1951

Super Bowl Championships (1)
1999 (XXXIV)

Conference Championships (6)

NFL National: 1950, 1951
NFL Western: 1955
NFC: 1979, 1999, 2001

Division Championships (15)

NFL West: 1945, 1949
NFL Coastal: 1967, 1969
NFC West: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1999, 2001, 2003

Home fields

In Cleveland

Cleveland Municipal Stadium (1937, 1939-1941, 1945)
League Park (1937, 1942, 1944-1945)
Shaw Stadium (1938)

In Los Angeles

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1946-1979)
Anaheim Stadium (1980-1994)

In St. Louis

Busch Memorial Stadium (First half of 1995 season)
Edward Jones Dome (Second half of the 1995 season-present)
- a.k.a. Trans World Dome (1995-2000)
- a.k.a. Dome at America's Center (2001)

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won two NFL Championships and one Super Bowl.

The Rams began playing in 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the 1936-37 American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, this new NFL franchise technically became a separate entity since only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's personnel joined the new NFL team.^[1]

The team then became known as the Los Angeles Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980-94), keeping the Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.^[2]

1 Franchise history
2 Logo and uniforms
3 Players
4 Staff
- 4.1 Head coaches
- 4.2 Current Staff
5 Radio and television
6 See also
7 External links
8 Notes and references

[edit] Franchise history

For more details on this topic, see History of the St. Louis Rams.

[edit] Cleveland Rams (1936-1945)

The Cleveland Rams were founded by attorney Homer Marshman in 1936. Their name, the Rams, comes from the nickname of Fordham University. Rams was selected to honor the hard work of the players that came out of that university. They were part of the newly formed American Football League. The following year they joined the National Football League and were placed in the Western division to replace the St. Louis Gunners, who disbanded after the 1934 season.^{[citation needed]} From the beginning, they were a team marked by frequent moves playing in three stadiums over several losing seasons. The franchise suspended operations and sat out the 1943 season because of a shortage of players during World War II and resumed playing in 1944.^[3] The team finally achieved success in 1945, which proved to be their last season in Ohio, achieving a 9-1 record and winning their first NFL Championship, a 15-14 home field victory over the Washington Redskins on December 16.^[4]

[edit] Los Angeles Rams (1946-1994)

In 1946, Rams' owner Dan Reeves, fed up with poor attendance at Cleveland Stadium and competing against the Cleveland Browns (then members of the All-America Football Conference), the Rams became the first NFL team based on the West Coast. (There had been a team called the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926, but they played their schedule on the road only.) Reeves inked a deal with the city to lease the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the team played there from 1946 to 1979.

Reeves died in 1971, and through a complicated arrangement with the Baltimore Colts that brought Bob Irsay in as Colts' owner, Carroll Rosenbloom, who had been the Colts' owner, took over the Rams.

Rosenbloom had long been bothered by the Coliseum Commission's apparent foot-dragging on building luxury boxes at the Coliseum, which he saw as essential to future success. He broke off negotiations with the Commission and started to negotiate to play at Dodger Stadium, but Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley did not want a football team playing at Chavez Ravine. Rosenbloom was petitioned by Orange County Supervisor Ralph Clark, the founder of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club, to move the team to Anaheim Stadium, the home of the California Angels. Clark convinced Angels owner Gene Autry to okay the remodeling of Anaheim Stadium to accommodate the Rams, expanding capacity to 68,000 and putting in seating appropriate to football. In 1980, the Rams moved to Anaheim from Los Angeles.

[edit] St Louis Rams (1995-present)

Under the terms of the Rams' deal with Anaheim, they were to receive the rights to develop plots of land near the Stadium. When nothing came of these plans, and with attendance falling, Rams' owner Georgia Frontiere (Rosenbloom's widow, as he died before the move to Anaheim was completed) got permission to relocate the team. After an aborted move to Baltimore, the Rams moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, initially playing at Busch Stadium until the TransWorld Dome(now the Edward Jones Dome) was completed. Interestingly, the NFL owners originally rejected the move - until Frontiere agreed to share some of the permanent seat license revenue she was to receive from St. Louis. This same year the then-Los Angeles Raiders where threatening to relocate as well - and did, back to Oakland.

The 1995 and 1996 seasons the Rams were under the direction of head coach Rich Brooks. Then in 1997 Dick Vermeil was hired as the head coach. He remained head coach until retiring after the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans in early 2000. After that Mike Martz took over until his firing in 2005. Scott Linehan is the current head coach after replacing Martz in January of 2006. During this time some of the most important players have been Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, and Issac Bruce. They were part of an offense dubbed "one of the fastest ever" and "The Greatest Show on Turf". This offense has been under the direction of both Kurt Warner (1999-2001) and Marc Bulger (2002-present) at quarterback.

[edit] Logo and uniforms

The Rams became the first professional American football team to have a logo on their helmets. Ever since halfback Fred Gehrke painted ram horns on the team's helmets in 1948, the logo has been the club's trademark.

When the team debuted in 1937, the Rams' colors were red and black, featuring red helmets and black uniforms with red shoulders and sleeves. One year later they would switch their team colors to yellow and blue, with yellow helmets, white pants and blue uniforms. The Rams switched to yellow uniforms in the mid 1940s. When Gehrke introduced the horns, they were painted yellow gold on blue helmets. During the late 1950s, the team wore blue jerseys again.

In 1965 [Correction: 1964] , the colors were changed to blue and white. The helmets became blue with white rams' horns, the uniform design was changed to white pants and either blue or white jerseys. When George Allen was named head coach in 1966, he had the Rams wear their white jerseys at home [Incorrect: The Rams started wearing white jerseys at home in 1964] , a tradition that continued through the 1971 season under Tommy Prothro. Prothro switched the Rams to the blue jerseys at home in 1972, the final season of the blue and white combination.

The colors returned to yellow gold and blue in 1973. The new uniform design consisted of yellow gold pants and curling rams horns on the sleeves – yellow gold horns on the blue jerseys and blue horns on the white jerseys. The white jerseys had yellow gold sleeves.

The team's colors were changed from yellow gold and blue to New Century Gold (metallic gold) and Millennium (navy) blue in 2000 following the Super Bowl win. A new logo of a ram's head was added to the sleeves and gold stripes were added to the sides of the jerseys. The new gold pants no longer featured any stripes. The helmet design essentially remains the same as it was in 1948, except for updates to the coloring, navy blue field with gold horns. Both home and away jerseys had a gold stripe that ran down each side, but that only lasted for the 2000 and 2001 seasons.

In 2003, the Rams wore blue pants with their white jerseys for a pair of early-season games, but after losses to the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks, the Rams reverted to gold pants with their white jerseys. In 2005, the Rams wore an all-blue combination for games against the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. In November 2006, the Rams introduced white pants with a gold stripe in a game at the Carolina Panthers to feature an all-white combination.

Los Angeles Rams helmet logo used from 1964-1972; note the white and blue

Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams helmet logo used from 1973-1999, it was also used as the team's primary logo from 1981-1994; note the yellow and blue

St. Louis Rams helmet logo used from 2000-present; note the gold and navy blue

Cleveland Rams primary logo from 1940-1945.

Los Angeles Rams primary logo used from 1950-1972.

Los Angeles Rams primary logo used from 1973-1980.

Saint Louis Rams primary logo used from 2000-present.

Los Angeles Rams script logo used from 1984-1994.

St. Louis Rams script and primary logo used from 1995-1999; note the representation of St. Louis' Gateway Arch.

[edit] Players

See also: List of St. Louis Rams players

[edit] Current players

Depth Chart

St. Louis Rams roster as of Mar. 25th 2007

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Quarterbacks

Running Backs

Receivers

Kickers

4 B.J. Sander P
14 Jeff Wilkins K

Offensive line

Linebackers

Defensive backs

20 Josh Lay CB
21 Oshiomogho Atogwe FS
23 Jerametrius Butler CB
24 Ronald Bartell CB/FS
25 Corey Chavous SS
26 Tye Hill CB
34 Fakhir Brown CB
35 Todd Johnson SS
42 Jerome Carter SS
NA Mike Rumph CB
NA Lenny Walls CB

Defensive line

71 Tim Sandidge DT
73 Jimmy Kennedy DT
91 Leonard Little DE
92 Eric Moore DE
94 Victor Adeyanju DE
95 Trevor Johnson DE
96 James Hall DE
97 La'Roi Glover DT
98 Michael Brown DE
99 Claude Wroten DT

Practice squad

N/A - Off-season

Physically unable to perform

N/A - Off-season

Reserve/Retired

28 Marshall Faulk HB

[edit] Pro Football Hall of Famers

These Rams, and St. Louis Cardinals Hall-of-Famers Dan Dierdorf, Jackie Smith and Larry Wilson, are honored in the Ring of Honor at the Edward Jones Dome. Only Slater, however, played for the Rams in St. Louis, and then only for the inaugural 1995 season.

Ollie Matson (33), Andy Robustelli (81), Dick "Night Train" Lane (also 81), coach Earl "Dutch" Clark, general manager Tex Schramm, GM and later NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and coach Sid Gillman are also members of the Hall of Fame, but were elected on the basis of their performances with other teams or (in the case of Rozelle) NFL administration. Dick Vermeil has become the first and still only St. Louis Rams figure inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Cardinals inducted into it include Dierdorf, Smith, Wilson, Conrad Dobler, Jim Hart and coach Jim Hanifan.

No.	Player	Class	Position(s)	Years Played
Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams Hall of Famers
--	George Allen	2002	Coach	1966-1970
76	Bob Brown	2004	OT	1969-1970
29	Eric Dickerson	1999	RB	1983-1987
55	Tom Fears	1970	End	1948-1956
40	Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch	1968	RB, WR	1949-1957
75	Deacon Jones	1980	DE	1961-1971
65	Tom Mack	1999	G	1966-1978
74	Merlin Olsen	1982	DT	1962-1976
--	Dan Reeves	1967	Owner	1941-1971
78	Jackie Slater	2001	OT	1976-1995
25	Norm Van Brocklin	1971	QB, P	1949-1957
7	Bob Waterfield	1965	QB, DB, K, P	1945-1952
85	Jack Youngblood	2001	DE	1974-1984

[edit] Retired numbers

[edit] Staff

[edit] Head coaches

Name	From	To	Record				Titles^[5]
Name	From	To	W	L	T	%	Titles^[5]
Hugo Bezdek^[6]	1937	1938	1	13	0	.071	0
Art Lewis	1938	1938	4	4	0	.500	0
Earl "Dutch" Clark	1939	1942	16	26	2	.386	0
Buff Donelli	1944	1944	4	6	0	.400	0
Adam Walsh	1945	1946	16	5	1	.772	1
Bob Snyder	1947	1947	6	6	0	.500	0
Clark Shaughnessy	1948	1949	6	6	0	.500	0
Joe Stydahar^[7]	1950	1952	19	9	0	.678	1
Hamp Pool	1952	1954	23	11	2	.666	0
Sid Gillman	1955	1959	28	32	1	.467	0
Bob Waterfield^[8]	1960	1962	9	24	1	.288	0
Harland Svare	1962	1965	14	31	3	.322	0
George Allen	1966	1970	49	19	4	.708	0
Tommy Prothro	1971	1972	14	12	2	.535	0
Chuck Knox	1973	1977	57	20	1	.737	0
Ray Malavasi	1978	1982	43	36	0	.394	0
John Robinson	1983	1991	79	74	0	.516	0
Chuck Knox	1992	1994	15	33	0	.312	0
Rich Brooks	1995	1996	13	19	0	.406	0
Dick Vermeil	1997	1999	25	26	0	.490	1
Mike Martz^[9]	2000	2005	56	36	0	.608	0
Joe Vitt	2005	2005	4	7	0	.363	0
Scott Linehan	2006	present	8	8	0	.500	0

[edit] Current Staff

Co-Owner/Chairman - Georgia Frontiere
Co-Owner - E. Stanley Kroenke
General Manager - Charlie Armey

Head Coach - Scott Linehan
Assistant Head Coach - Rick Venturi

Offensive Coaches

Offensive Coordinator - Greg Olson
Quarterbacks Coach - Doug Nussmeier
Offensive Line Coach - Paul Boudreau
Assistant Offensive Line Coach - Jim Chaney
Wide Receivers Coach - Henry Ellard
Tight Ends Coach - Judd Garrett
Running Backs - Wayne Moses
Offensive Quality Control Coach - Randy Hanson
Offensive Quality Control Coach - Keith Murphy
Special Assistant/Offense - Jeff Horton

Defensive Coaches

Defensive Coordinator - Jim Haslett
Defensive Line Coach - Brian Baker
Secondary Coach - Willy Robinson
Assistant Secondary Coach - Ron Milus
Linebackers Coach - Rick Venturi
Quality Control/Assistant Defensive Line Coach - Mike Cox
Defensive Assistant - Todd Downing

Speciality Coaches

Special Teams Coach - Al Roberts
Assistant Special Teams Coach - Todd Downing
Strength and Conditioning Coach - Dana LeDuc
Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach - Brad Roll

[edit] Radio and television

As of 2006, the Rams' flagship radio station is KLOU 103.3FM. Steve Savard is the play-by-play announcer. Until October 2005, Jack Snow had been the color analyst for nearly 20 years, dating back to the team's days in the Los Angeles area. Snow left the booth after suffering an illness and died in January 2006. Preseason games not shown on a national broadcast network are seen on KTVI, channel 2 and are also seen in L.A. on KCOP, "MyNetworkTV channel 13."

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Preceded by Denver Broncos 1997 and 1998	Super Bowl Champions St. Louis Rams 1999	Succeeded by Baltimore Ravens 2000

[edit] Notes and references

^ Braunwart, Bob. ALL THOSE A.F.L.'S: N.F.L. COMPETITORS, 1935-41. Professional Football Researchers Association. Retrieved on 2006-11-13. “In 1937 the N.F.L. admitted the Cleveland Rams. Four of the players (according to Treat) were the same.”
^ St. Louis Rams History: Chronology. Official Website of the St. Louis Rams. Retrieved 13 September 2006
^ St. Louis Rams History: Chronology. Retrieved on 2006-09-13.
^ NFL History, 1945. Official Site of the NFL. Retrieved 13 September 2006
^ NFL Championships and Super Bowl Championships collected during a coaching tenure
^ Released after three games in 1938.
^ Resigned after one game in 1952
^ Resigned after eight games in 1962.
^ Took medical leaver after five games in 2005.

Saint Louis Rams

Franchise • History • Players • Seasons • Statistics • Edward Jones Dome • Missouri Governor's Cup • The Greatest Show on Turf • The Tackle • Fearsome Foursome

Club Head Coaches

Bezdek • Lewis • Clark • Donelli • Walsh • Snyder • Shaughnessy • Stydahar • Pool • Gillman • Waterfield • Svare • Allen • Prothro • Knox • Malavasi • Robinson • Brooks • Vermeil • Martz • Vitt • Linehan

League Championships (3)

1945 • 1951 • 1999

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