Ode to the Los Angeles Rams

R.I.P. Los Angeles Rams (1946 - 1994)

Ahh yet another NFL season is almost upon us and one can't help but to get excited to get your fantasy football lineups set, get together with friends on Sundays for buffalo wings, cold beers, and cooler weather. Although for a so cal native such as myself every new NFL season brings with it a little bit of bitterness. You see, I grew up an LA Rams fan, we even had season tickets for a few years and while the Rams were never really great it has been the only NFL team I have ever really cared about enough to call my team. There are many theories as to why we were robbed of the Rams I still blame Georgia Frontiere for taking them from us.

From Wikipedia:

Georgia Frontiere inherited the team. Georgia got her last name Frontiere when she later married the musician and Hollywood composer Dominic Frontiere. 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, Georgia Frontiere got permission to relocate the team.

The Raiders left soon after this and even though I could never succumb to becoming a Raiders fan... the Los Angeles area has been with out an NFL team ever since. Mindblowing isn't it. Especially since LA has 2 MLB teams and 2 NBA teams.



The Rams while never bringing the Lombardi trophy to LA were actually pretty decent. From 1973 to 1989 the Rams went to the playoffs, that's 14 out of 16 years (1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1989). My all time favorite players were Jim Everett (who punched out Jim Rome when he called him Chrissy Everett after the female tennis player), Henry Ellard, Flipper Anderson, offensive rookie of the year in 1993 Jerome Bettis, and my all time favorite Ram Eric Dickerson.

Anaheim Stadium back in the day before Disney got a hold of it...



May the memories of the yellow and blue stay strong and hopefully one day we can reclaim whats rightfully ours from St. Louis.

TFLN: The most amusing site I have seen in ages

There are very few times in web browsing history that I have found a website that has made me laugh so hard in such a short period of time. This website now rivals my favorite website "Stuff White People Like". Texts From Last Night is here to show you how boring the texts in on your phone are by posting the most outlandish texts from all over the USA. Think I’m kidding? Check it:

Best Night Section:

(847): i took some ambien and I TRIPPED out...i went into my mom's room to say goodnight and i don't remember anything...she said that i got really pissed at her because we were living in the Keebler elf tree and she was visiting other trees, then i started laughing hysterically and she goes "whats so funny?" and i go "there are 7 people sitting on my knees" and she goes "doesn't that hurt?" and i said "no we're sitting in a bowl" and then i capped it off and said "join the crazy train bro" and passed out.

Worst Night Section:

(323): You got in a fight last night?
(818): Yeah! Some dude in the bathroom...he was standing there and I notice he's got the same shirt as me on so I'm like...dude you should have called me, we look like idiots...he didn't say anything...so i got pissed and hit him...completely decimated and my hand was all bloody and covered with glass afterward...weird dude, never saw him again that night or since.
(323): Um...Did this guy happen to look almost exactly like you?

Texts From Last Night will cheer you up on days like today when the stock market is down and half of Los Angeles is burning.