Los Angeles Rams

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Los Angeles Rams
Founded in 1936
playing in Los Angeles , California
Los Angeles Rams logo
league

American Football League (1936)
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)
Current uniforms
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Team colors Blue, gold, white
mascot Rampage
staff
owner Stan Kroenke
General manager Les Snead
Head coach Sean McVay
Team history
successes
NFL Champion (3) * NFL (2) 1945 , 1951
Conference winner (7)
Division Winner (17)
Play-off appearances (29)
  • NFL: 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 , 1955, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 , 1983 , 1984 , 1985, 1986 , 1988 , 1989 , 1999, 2000 , 2001, 2003, 2004 , 2017, 2018
Stages

In Cleveland

In Los Angeles

In St. Louis

The Los Angeles Rams ( German  Los Angeles Aries ) are an American football team of the National Football League (NFL) from Los Angeles . You play alongside the Arizona Cardinals , San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks in the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC). The club colors are navy blue, gold and white.

Founded in 1936, the Rams are one of the oldest teams in the NFL. Originally set up in Cleveland , the team moved on to Los Angeles , Anaheim after the 1945 season and finally to St. Louis in 1995 . From there it went back to Los Angeles in 2016.

The Rams have won three championship titles so far, including a Super Bowl . You have also been six times Conference Champion . The last major success was winning Super Bowl XXXIV with quarterback and later Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and an explosive offense that went down in history as the Greatest Show on Turf .

history

1936–1945: Founding and beginnings in Cleveland

In 1936 attorney Homer Marshman and trainer Damon Wetzel founded the Cleveland Rams in Cleveland , Ohio . The name Rams was chosen because Wetzel was a fan of the Fordham Rams, the college team at Fordham University , and Marshman as the legal owner did not mind. The first season you played in the newly founded American Football League (AFL) and finished with second place. On February 12, 1937, the Rams joined the National Football League (NFL) and played there in the Western Division. There they were not very successful and even had to stop playing in 1943 due to the lack of players. After returning and with the rookie quarterback Bob Waterfield , however, the first championship could be won against the Washington Redskins in 1945 . Previously, the team was also sold to the New York stock exchange trader Dan Reeves .

1946–1994: First move and establishment in Los Angeles

Since the Rams for Reeves was a losing business until then, he announced that he would relocate his team to Los Angeles . After the conflicts with the other team owners were resolved, Reeves was able to move to LA with his team in 1946. There they played as Los Angeles Rams and were the first team to play on the west coast. In contrast to later moves of other teams, Cleveland could cope with the departure of the Rams very well, as the Cleveland Browns immediately took the place of the Rams and won all four AAFC titles. In 1950 , they in turn joined the NFL. In Los Angeles you initially had to face tough competition with the Los Angeles Dons from the AAFC. Thanks to players like quarterback Norm Van Brocklin , Elroy Hirsch or Tom Fears , the Rams finally prevailed. The highlight was winning the second championship in 1951 against the Browns, against whom they had lost the previous year. The next 20 years or so were less successful for the Rams, as they only reached the play-offs four times from 1952 to 1972 . However, there were some big changes in the Rams in the early 1970s. Long-time owner Dan Reeves died on April 15, 1971. His ownership of the Rams was later acquired by Robert Irsay . In 1972, Irsay exchanged his rams for the Baltimore Colts , whose owner Carroll Rosenbloom took over the rams. After Rosenbloom's death, his widow Georgia Frontiere took over the team. In 1973 Chuck Knox was also hired as head coach , with whom the Rams could always win their division for the next few years. The highlight was the participation in Super Bowl XIV , which was lost against the Pittsburgh Steelers at 19:31. 1980 moved the Rams from LA to Anaheim , a city in California District Orange County the Anaheim Stadium to u. a. circumvent the blackout rule of the NFL. Until 2014 , this stated that a game could only be broadcast on domestic television if all tickets were sold 72 hours before the kickoff . In the more than 90,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , the stadium was never completely sold out, even during the Rams' prime, which is why many games were not allowed to be shown live. With the arrival of the Oakland Raiders in LA , winning the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Dodgers championships in their leagues, and strong media interest in Wayne Gretzky , who played for the Los Angeles Kings , the Rams' popularity took off in the 1980s from.

1995–2015: Second move and coronation in St. Louis

In the early 1990s, Georgia Frontiere tried to finance a new stadium in the Los Angeles area, but to no avail. This took advantage of St. Louis , which in 1988 lost its Cardinals to Phoenix , Arizona . After settling the differences with the other NFL owners, the Rams could play as St. Louis Rams from 1995 . After the first two seasons in St. Louis played rather average and only Isaac Bruce caused a sensation, 1997 Dick Vermeil was signed as head coach and Orlando Pace . With the other obligations of Kurt Warner , Marshall Faulk , Torry Holt , Az-Zahir Hakim and Ricky Proehl they succeeded in 2000 so far the only Super Bowl -Triumph when she the Tennessee Titans defeated with 23:16. The offense around Kurt Warner, who was elected NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP after the season and after the Super Bowl , is still called The Greatest Show on Turf (GSOT) to this day . In the following season, her new head coach Mike Martz was the final destination for the defending champion in the first round of the play-offs, the wildcard game. However, Warner's team managed to make it into Super Bowl XXXVI only a year later , where they lost as a high favorite against the New England Patriots (with Tom Brady in his first final) only to a field goal from Adam Vinatieri a few seconds before the end.

The last major era of success under Mike Martz ended in 2005 with a rather mixed season, which was characterized by the end of the head coach's career due to illness and the injuries of two starting quarterbacks in the meantime .

In early 2008, Frontiere died and their children sold the team to billionaire Stan Kroenke , who already owned a minority stake in the team. He planned the return of the Rams to Los Angeles from the beginning and finally presented plans for a new gigantic stadium in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Since 2016: Moved to Los Angeles again

The Rams have been back in Los Angeles since the 2016 season . They prevailed against a joint offer by the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders , who also wanted to go to town. Los Angeles is the second largest television market in the United States and has been the only major television market in the United States without an NFL team since the Rams and Raiders left for the 1995 season . The NFL team owners voted 30-2 on January 12, 2016 in favor of the Rams' offer. The Rams will build a glass-roofed stadium in the suburb of Inglewood , whose planned construction costs of three billion US dollars would make it the world's most expensive sports facility. In this context, the Chargers were offered the option to come to Los Angeles along with the Rams. On January 12, 2017, the Chargers announced that they were moving back to Los Angeles and sharing the new stadium with the Rams. Had the Chargers not taken up the option, the Raiders would have received this offer. The completion of the new SoFi Stadium was originally planned for 2019, but due to unusually high amounts of rain during the construction phase, it will be delayed until 2020. Until then, the Rams will be located at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , as they did from 1946 to 1979 .

After the Rams moved back to LA and there were no significant player changes in the offseason, they used the 2016 draft for a surprise. From the Tennessee Titans they got the top pick of the draft in a big swap. The Rams gave their first-round pick, two second-round and one third-round pick, as well as their first and third-round pick of the 2017 draft to Nashville. For this, the Rams got the Titans' fourth and six-round pick in addition to the top pick. Tennessee was able to afford the swap of the first round pick, as they had drafted their franchise quarterback with Marcus Mariota in the 2014 draft . With the additional picks it was possible for the Titans to build a stable team around Mariota. In contrast, the Rams needed a new franchise player for their new home. With the first-round pick in the draft, the Rams selected quarterback Jared Goff . However, he was not promoted to starter because he should get used to the style of play of the NFL, but was represented by Case Keenum . After they won their first regular season home game since 1994 in week 2 and more victories followed, the Rams only won one in the following 10 games. Since they showed a negative balance again, it was very surprising that the contract of head coach Jeff Fisher was extended for two more years. After the clear 14:42 home defeat against the Falcons , it was decided to fire Fisher and promote the special team coordinator John Fassel as interim trainer.

On January 12, 2017, the Rams named Sean McVay as their new head coach. At the age of 30, he became the youngest head coach in NFL history. Similar to the previous season, the Rams started the 2017 season with a 3-2 record. However, the Rams surprised with the next four wins in a row, with a so-called shutout against the Arizona Cardinals , which means that the team did not allow opposing points. Jared Goff and Todd Gurley , who played only mediocre in the preseason, were able to show their performances again in the games. The newcomers Sammy Watkins , Robert Woods and the newly drafted Cooper Kupp made such an impression that the 2017 Rams were compared to the Rams of the "Greatest Show on Turf". On November 26, 2017, the Rams defeated the New Orleans Saints by 26:20, which meant that their first year since 2006 had no more defeats than wins. A week later, they beat the Cardinals 32:16, making them their first season with more wins than losses since 2003 . On December 24th they defeated the Titans with 27:23, which they could win the NFC West for the first time since 2003. Another achievement that no other team achieved before the Rams was the extreme increase in their point yield. While in 2016 you could only achieve 224 points (worst value of all 32 teams), you could achieve 478 points in 2017 (best value of all 32 teams). In the Rams' first play-off game since 2004, they faced the Falcons at home. However, the game was lost at 13:26.

In the 2018 season , the Los Angeles Rams reached Super Bowl LIII . They competed for the second time since 2002 against the New England Patriots , then still as St. Louis Rams. The game was played on February 3, 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta , Georgia . The New England Patriots won their sixth Super Bowl 13-3.

player

Current squad

Squad of the Los Angeles Rams

Quarterbacks

Running backs

Wide receiver

Tight ends

Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

Linebacker

Defensive backs

Special teams

Reserve List

Practice Squad

Rookies in italics

Roster as of December 22, 2019
Depth ChartTransactions

53 active, 9 inactive, 10 practice squad

Jersey numbers that are no longer awarded

Retired Numbers of the Los Angeles Rams
No. player position Period
7th Bob Waterfield QB , K , P 1945–1952
28 Marshall Faulk RB 1999-2006
29 Eric Dickerson RB 1983-1987
74 Merlin Olsen DT 1962-1976
75 Deacon Jones DE 1961-1971
78 Jackie Slater T 1976-1995
80 Isaac Bruce WR 1994-2007
85 Jack Youngblood DE 1971-1984

Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

So far, 19 players have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the Cleveland, Los Angeles or St. Louis Rams . In addition, eleven other former Rams were added, but for activities with other teams.

Pro Football Hall of Fame members
Jersey number Surname position Time with the Rams Year of admission
7th Bob Waterfield QB , K , P 1945–1952 1965
- Dan Reeves owner 1941-1971 1967
40 Elroy Hirsch RB , WR 1949-1957 1968
55/80 Tom Fears End 1948-1956 1970
84 Andy Robustelli DE 1951-1955 1971
25/11 Norm Van Brocklin QB , P 1949-1957 1971
33 Ollie Matson Flanker 1959-1962 1973
61 Bill George LB 1966 1974
81 Night Train Lane CB 1952-1953 1974
75 Deacon Jones DE 1961-1971 1980
74 Merlin Olsen DT 1962-1976 1982
- Sid Gillman End
trainer
1936
1955-1959
1983
12 Joe Namath QB 1977 1985
- Tex Schramm official 1947-1956 1991
29 Tommy McDonald WR 1965-1966 1998
29 Eric Dickerson RB 1983-1987 1999
65 Tom Mack G 1966-1988 1999
78 Jackie Slater T 1976-1995 2001
73 Ron Yary T 1982 2001
85 Jack Youngblood DE 1971-1984 2001
- George Allen Trainer 1966-1970 2002
22nd James Lofton WR 1993 2003
76 Bob Brown T 1969-1970 2004
28 Marshall Faulk RB 1999-2006 2011
67/48 Les judges LB , K 1954-1952 2011
35 Aeneas Williams CB , S 2001-2004 2014
36 Jerome Bettis RB 1993-95 2015
91 Kevin Greene LB 1985-1992 2016
76 Orlando Pace T 1997-2008 2016
13 Kurt Warner QB 1998-2004 2017

Trainer (Head Coaches)

Sean McVay - Head Coach of the Rams since the 2017 season
# Order of trainers
Games Play as a coach
S. Victories
N Defeats
UE draw
Won% Win rate
* Exclusively active as head coach for the Rams

As of: 17th game week 2019

# Surname Period Regular season Play-offs Achievements / Awards reference
Games S. N UE Won% Games S. N
Cleveland Rams
1 Damon Wetzel 1936 9 5 2 2 .714 - - -
2 Hugo Bezdek * 1 1937-1938 14th 1 13 0 .071 - - -
3 Art Lewis * 1938 8th 4th 4th 0 .500 - - -
4th Dutch Clark 1939–1942 2 44 16 26th 2 .386 - - -
5 Aldo Donelli 1944 10 4th 6th 0 .400 - - -
6th Adam Walsh * 1945 10 9 1 0 .900 1 1 0 NFL Championship (1945)
Los Angeles Rams
- Adam Walsh * 1946 11 6th 4th 1 .600 - - -
7th Bob Snyder * 1947 12 6th 6th 0 .500 - - -
8th Clark Shaughnessy * 1948-1949 24 14th 7th 3 .645 1 0 1
9 Joe Stydahar 3 1950-1952 25th 17th 8th 0 .680 3 2 1 NFL Championship (1951)
10 Hamp pool * 1952-1954 35 23 10 2 .685 1 0 1 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1952)
11 Sid Gillman 1955-1959 60 28 31 1 .475 1 0 1
12 Bob Waterfield * 4 1960–1962 34 9 24 1 .279 - - -
13 Harland Svare 1962-1965 48 14th 31 3 .322 - - -
14th George Allen 1966-1970 70 49 17th 4th .728 2 0 2 AP NFL Coach of the Year (1967)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1967)
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1967)
15th Tommy Prothro 1971-1972 28 14th 12 2 .535 - - -
16 Chuck Knox 1973-1977 70 54 15th 1 .778 8th 3 5 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1973)
AP NFL Coach of the Year (1973)
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1973)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1973)
17th Ray Malavasi 1978-1982 73 40 33 0 .547 6th 3 3
18th John Robinson * 1983-1991 143 75 68 0 .524 10 4th 6th
- Chuck Knox 1992-1994 48 15th 33 0 .312 - - -
St. Louis Rams
19th Rich Brooks * 1995-1996 32 13 19th 0 .406 - - -
20th Dick Vermeil 1997-1999 48 22nd 26th 0 .458 3 3 0 Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (1999)
Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1999)
AP NFL Coach of the Year (1999)
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1999)
Super Bowl XXXIV
21st Mike Martz * 5 2000-2005 85 53 32 0 .623 7th 3 4th
22nd Joe Vitt 2005 11 4th 7th 0 .364 - - -
23 Scott Linehan * 2006-2008 36 11 25th 0 .344 - - -
24 Jim Haslett 2008 12 2 10 0 .167 - - -
25th Steve Spagnuolo * 2009-2011 48 10 38 0 .208 - - -
26th Jeff Fisher 2012-2015 64 27 36 1 .430 - - -
Los Angeles Rams
- Jeff Fisher 6 2016 13 4th 9 0 .308 - - -
27 John Fassel * 2016 3 0 3 0 .000 - - -
28 Sean McVay * 2017– 48 33 15th 0 .688 4th 2 2
1 Hugo Bezdek was released in 1938 after 3 games.
2 Due to the Second World War and the consequent chronic shortage, the Rams put the game operation in season 1943 from
3 Joe Stydaha resigned after playing one game in 1952 .
4th Bob Waterfield resigned in 1962 after eight games.
5 Mike Martz was given leave of absence in 2005 for health reasons.
6th Jeff Fisher was released three weeks before the end of the season. For the Rams, he achieved a total of 31 wins, 45 losses and one draw.

The Rams were the first team to design their helmets. In 1948, Fred Gehrke came up with the idea of ​​painting the helmets of his team colleagues with horns, which is still the trademark of the Rams today. Other teams followed suit. B. the Philadelphia Eagles wings, the Los Angeles Chargers lightning bolts or the Cincinnati Bengals have a tiger pattern on their helmets.

When they moved to Los Angeles in 2016, the Rams changed the color of the horn and facemask to white. They also introduced new white and blue pants. They only took over the jersey, as they did in St. Louis. The throwback uniforms that the Rams wore during their time in St. Louis, based on the uniforms from their first visit to Los Angeles, were made the primary uniform.

With the move of the Rams to their new stadium, the Rams announced their new logo on March 23, 2020. The new logo shows the letters “L” and “A”, whereby the “A” becomes a ram's horn and curves between the two letters. In addition, the horn now also resembles a breaking wave, which should represent the proximity of Los Angeles to the sea. As with the Rams' first stay in Los Angeles, the team colors returned to blue and gold.

Trivia

The movie Heaven Shall Wait is about a fictional Los Angeles Rams quarterback trying to get the team to the Super Bowl .

As a participant in Super Bowl LIII , the Rams were the first team to appear there with male cheerleaders .

Balance sheets and records

Los Angeles Rams / Numbers and Records represents important records for the Rams, the seasonal balance sheets since 1936 and the first round draft picks since 1937.

Web links

Commons : Los Angeles Rams  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Franchise nicknames - Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
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  9. San Diego Chargers Before Moving to LA. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .
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  19. ^ Statistics by George Wilson. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  20. ^ Statistics from Hugo Bezdek. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  21. ^ Statistics by Art Lewis. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  22. ^ Statistics from Dutch Clark. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  23. ^ Statistics from Aldo Donelli. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  24. ^ A b Statistics by Adam Walsh. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  25. ^ Statistics from Bob Snyder. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  26. Statistics by Clark Shaughnessy. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  27. ^ Statistics from Joe Stydahar. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  28. ^ Statistics from Hamp Pool. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  29. Statistics by Sid Gillman. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  30. ^ Statistics by Bob Waterfield. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  31. ^ Statistics from Harland Svare. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  32. Statistics by George Allen. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  33. Statistics from Tommy Prothro. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  34. a b Statistics by Chuck Knox. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  35. ^ Statistics by Ray Malavasi. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  36. ^ Statistics from John Robinson. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  37. Statistics by Rich Brooks. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  38. ^ Statistics by Dick Vermeil. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  39. ^ Statistics from Mike Martz. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  40. ^ Statistics from Joe Vitt. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  41. ^ Statistics from Scott Linehan. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  42. Statistics by Jim Haslett. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  43. Statistics by Steve Spagnuolo. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  44. ^ A b Statistics by Jeff Fisher. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  45. John Fassel Named Rams Interim Head Coach. Archived from the original on December 12, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2016 .
  46. ^ Statistics from John Fassel. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  47. ^ Statistics from Sean McVay. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
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  49. ^ Synopsis for Heaven Can Wait. In: IMDB. Retrieved January 14, 2016 .
  50. Stefan Frommann: The first male cheerleaders in the Super Bowl. In: welt.de. January 19, 2019, accessed January 10, 2020 .