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St Louis Rams
Established 1936
Play in St. Louis, Missouri
St Louis Rams logo
St Louis Rams logo
Logo
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)
Current uniform
Team colorsNew Century Gold, Millennium Blue, and White
Personnel
Owner(s)Georgia Frontiere and E. Stanley Kroenke
General managerCharlie Armey
Head coachScott Linehan
Team history
Championships
League championships (3)
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

In Los Angeles

In St. Louis

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]

Franchise history

Further information: History of the St. Louis Rams

Cleveland Rams (1936-1945)

The Cleveland Rams were founded by attorney Homer Marshman in 1936. 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]

Los Angeles Rams (1946-1994)

In 1980, Rams' owner Carroll Rosenbloom moved the team to Anaheim from Los Angeles. One of the reasons Rosenbloom cited for moving the team was that the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the team played, did not have box seats. 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.

St Louis Rams (1995-present)

For details about the current season, see 2006 St. Louis Rams season.

In 1995 the Rams moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis. 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 the coach until the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans. After that Mike Martz took over until 2005. Scott Linehan is currently their coach. 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 was under the direction of both Kurt Warner (1999-2001) and Marc Bulger (2002-present) at quarterback.

From 1999 to 2001, the "The Greatest Show on Turf" scored more than 500 total points per season, setting a new record for prolific multi-year offenses. No other team had ever scored more than 500 points in three consecutive seasons. Anchored by two-way threat RB Marshall Faulk, and led by two-time NFL MVP QB Kurt Warner, the Rams were known for being able to score from anywhere on the field in an instant. The signature play of "The Greatest Show on Turf" took place in the 2000 regular season premiere of Monday Night Football. A short pass from Warner to WR Az-Zahir Hakim in the flat went more than 75 yards for a TD. Hakim caught the ball in traffic, avoiding defenders, eventually outrunning them all. About 30 yards from the line of scrimmage, Hakim was caught by fellow WR Torry Holt who ran, arms in air, beside Hakim the last 45 yards, escorting him to the end zone.

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, 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, 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.

Players

See also: List of St. Louis Rams players

Current players

Los Angeles Rams roster
Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receivers

Tight ends

Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

Linebackers

Defensive backs

Special teams


Rookies in italics

Roster updated May 18, 2024

88 active, 1 unsigned

→ AFC rosters → NFC rosters

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.

Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams Hall of Famers
No. Player Class Position(s) Years Played
-- 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

Retired numbers

Staff

Head coaches

Name From To Record Titles[5]
W L T %
? 1936 1936 5 2 2 .666 0
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
Hampton 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

Current Staff

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."

See also

External links

Preceded by Super Bowl Champions
St. Louis Rams
2000 		Succeeded by

Notes and references

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