Who was your first head coach and quarterback?

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Thought this would be light but interesting.

Who was the head coach and quarterback when you first became a Rams fan?

For me it was Tommy Prothro and Roman Gabriel. The 49ers were our arch enemy, Dick Nolan as head coach and John Bodie as QB.
 
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Ray Malavasi with Ferragamo and Haden from my deepest recollection.
However rumor has it that I became a Rams fan because of Joe Namath, and that would be Chuck Knox. I honestly don't remember that
 
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I know that I was confused a little watching NFL games when I was 4-5 years old. I remember Roman Gabriel, but I didn't remember the HC. The first season that I really had a grasp of things was in 1973. Chuck Knox and John Hadl and Merlin Olsen!
 
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Bob Waterfield was the head coach and Zeke Bratkowski was the starting QB. This would be 1961.
 
Similar to Dieter; I was already a Rams fan but the signing of Joe Namath was about the time I started learning their names. I was about 8.
 
Billy Wade and Sid Gilman - 1958
 
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Stump23 said:
Chuck Knox, John Hadl, James Harris, Pat Haden, Joe Namath. I used to go to training camp at Cal State Fullerton every summer. They drove Joe Willie in a Buick from the locker room to the practice field.
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Same group of names. I remember my dad talking about Roman Gabriel, and I watched NFL films too, so I was familiar with the old timers also.
 
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1974 Chuck Knox, James Harris & Lawrence McCutcheon. But, at age 7 here, it was Cappalletti that caught my attention.
 
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The first coach/QB combo I remember would be John Robinson with Jim Everett as quarterback in 1987. I only watched them occasionally prior to that (about 1984, I think)
 
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‘88-‘89 years is what I remember the most. Robinson/Everett. Ellard and Flipper. (Oh, how my dad despised Georgia Frontiere!)

I vaguely remember Dickerson, but became more immersed in all things Rams in the late 80’s.

It went down hill pretty quick for me as a fan after that...90’s were painful as the Rams descended and the Niners were a premier team (screw Rice/Montana, and that slant they’d run all the damn time).

We got some reprieve in ‘99-‘01. But I felt we blew an opportunity to be a true dynasty. Especially when we had 3 first round picks to play with in ‘01.

And then pure, absolute misery for 15 years.

We deserve a re-birth! I hope McVay/Goff are the real deal for a decade!
 
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