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2 Free Tix for todays game!
- By LesBaker
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 2 Replies
Have 2 free tix to the Rams vs. Chargers game for the first person to get a hold of me. You're also welcome to join our tailgate, just bring your drinks and we can ice them down. Also bring whatever you want BBQ'd and we'll cook it up!
11H row 98 109-110
first one to text me wins
Greg
714 510-7693
Wow, that is really generous. I hope you guys get a W!!!
Rams 2017 Defensive Personnel "Roster Presentation"
- By So Ram
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 19 Replies
I'm really hoping he make the "53"! I'm worried most about our depth at CB!! We'll see how it works out!
Another Great Post Florida_Ram!!
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Good call Dave !! I think The Rams really missed Ejuan Price last week. Maybe not though ?? Have to see him live again, at TC he really stood out. So fast off the edge.
Rams Risers and Fallers: Raiders game
- By So Ram
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 79 Replies
That Amari Cooper catch just shows how special he really is:bow:.
If Marqui can learn to wrap upwe might have found a keeper @ reserve Strong Safety!
IMO.....NRC should Not be utilized as the Nickel but remain as our top reserve @ the two outside CB posts.I would strongly suggest that consideration be given to Blake Countess earning the Nickel position & John Johnson gets a strong look @ the back up Nickel assignment in 2017. Thus leaving Wade to settle on Mo's & Joyner's main 3rd safety back up between Marqui Christian/ Cody Davis/ Isaiah Johnson.
Note: There's always Mark Barron's availability to plug in @ Strong Safety in an emergency. From what I saw from both Josh Forrest & Cory Littleton who was playing for Barron....not a problem there.
MC over Mo or Davies is not happening, but I'll reserve that right tonight for a lot better answer.
That catch was a nice play. There is a lot of Comp , & yes players wanting to make the squad have to really step up.
Another Uniform Thread - What's Up, Buttercup?
- By DaveFan'51
- RAMS / NFL TALK
- 6 Replies
This was a Fun read. I had never read it before and had never heard the story before! " Butter-Cup Yellow"!!I excerpted this from a 9/14/94 Los Angeles Times article. It's a fun explanation of why the Rams switched to blue and white uniforms.
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Who else in the NFL had the audacity to wear yellow jerseys on Sunday? The Rams of 1951 may have looked like banana splits, but with Waterfield and Norm Van Brocklin cranking up 54-14 and 48-21 victories, no one seemed to laugh much.
"I love 'em," says Mickey Dukich, the Rams' director of video operation for the past 39 years. "It was sad to give them up. They were unique, distinctive. Very clean-looking."
The Rams gave them up in 1957 because television, in an ominous sign of things to come, ordered them to.
"The games were broadcast in black and white then," Dukich says, "and the gold came out as gray on TV sets. It conflicted with white jerseys and light blue jerseys, like the ones the Detroit Lions wore. Television wanted more of a contrast."
The Rams switched to blue and white, but "not without a struggle," according to Dukich. "Dan Reeves, who owned the Rams then, told our equipment manager, Bill Granholm, to try to find a gold or a yellow that came across as white, or near it, when it was photographed in black and white.
"Bill went through a lot of different shades, but none of them worked until he found a light-colored yellow with blue on it. We went to the Coliseum one afternoon, he'd model it on the field and I'd shoot it from the top of the stadium. Sure enough, it came out white on the film. We were told we'd be able to use it.
"But then Dan Reeves asked Bill the name of the color. 'Buttercup yellow,' Bill told him.
"That did it. Mr. Reeves said, 'No way, I'm not going to let the reporters know my team plays in buttercup yellow.' It was back to blue and white after that."
The Rams remained in blue and white throughout the '60s and into the '70s, until Carroll Rosenbloom bought the team in 1973.
