Essay On Rams

The Los Angeles Rams are my favorite football team. The Rams first stared in Cleveland in 1936. The Rams joined the NFL in 1946, when they moved to Los Angeles. The Rams would play there games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between 1946-1979. The Rams then moved to Anaheim Stadium{now known as Angel Stadium of Anaheim} from 1980-1994.

In 1994-2016 the Rams where in St.Louis. In 2016 the Rams moved back to Los Angeles. Right now they are playing at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. They are having a new stadium being toileted. The new $2.66 billion stadium is in Inglewood. The stadium is due to be completed in time for the 2019-2020 NFL season.

The reason for the move was twofold. First, the NFL's blackout rule forbade games from being shown on local television if the did not sell out within 72 hours of the opening kickoff. The Coliseum seated only 92,604 at the time, it was possible to sell that many tickets even in the Rams best years. So most of the Rams home games where blacked out.

Dan Reeves was the owner of the Rams from 1946-1971.

Reeves is the one that moved the Rams from Cleveland to Los Angeles. In 1979 the Rams made there first super bowl appearance. The Rams did not win. The Rams won there first supper bowl in 2000. They played the Tennessee Titans. The score was Rams 23 Titans 16.

In the 1980 the Rams posted an 11-5 record, but only managed a wild card where they lost to the Cowboys. 1982 was the worst record ever for the Rams 2-7.

The most notable player for the Rams during 1983-1985 was running back Eric Dickerson. He was drafted in 1983 out of SMU and won rookie of the year.

During the 1990's the rams losses where piling up and the team was seen as playing uninspired football. By 1994 the support for the Rams had withered to the point where they were barely partof the Los Angeles sport landscape. The first half of the 1990's featured four straight 10-loss

seasons.

While in St. Louis the Rams played their first few home games at Busch Memorial Stadium while the Trans World dome{now known as the Dome at America's Center}. The new stadium was completed during the middle of the 1995 season.
Between 1999-2004 the Rams qualified for the playoffs in five out of those six seasons. During this time the Rams did win there first super bowl. Other then that period of success, the St Louis Rams repeatedly suffered losing seasons.
On January 5,2015 the LA Times reported that Stan Kroenke and Stockbridge Capital Group are partnering up in developing a new NFL stadium on the Inglewood property. The project will include a stadium of 80,000 seats. I am happy that the Rams are back in LA. I plan to go to a game with my uncle who is also a Rams fan.