Posts with players, coaches, and other topics from the Los Angeles Rams for The Football History Dude podcast, covering the history of the NFL.
Seemingly every year in pro football, or at least every few years, a couple of teams that meet each other in the regular season, will then go on to meet each other again in the playoffs. In 1973, that occurrence happened three times in the NFL postseason. This first of three segments to this story … Read more
There have been very few Olympic medalists that are also in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In fact, we can think of only two: Jim Thorpe and Ollie Matson. Thorpe grabbed the gold medal in both the decathlon and the pentathlon in 1912 at the Stockholm games, while Matson won both a silver and … Read more
For every great and historic game in NFL history, there are undoubtedly hundreds of other games that were probably just as exciting. They just did not possess the ramifications that many of those historic games did. For the next several Pigskin Past programs, I will try to talk about and re-explore some of those thrilling … Read more
Perhaps no other team throughout the entire decade of the 1970s in the NFL was as hard to figure out as the 1979 Los Angeles Rams. They had suffered throughout the year with injuries to many of their key players. In fact, a total of 19 of their players had injuries during that year, many … Read more
The Cleveland Rams won the 1945 NFL Championship and were often referred to as “sport’s first spectacular postwar team.” Then, 27 days after winning the championship, the Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles. This made the franchise the only NFL team to play in a new city the year following a Championship run. On this … Read more