That was my feeling, moments after the New England Patriots completed their 37-31 overtime victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football Conference championship game 14 days ago. “This is a worst-case scenario.” “This” being the Los Angeles Rams playing the Patriots for the Super Bowl trophy. And why, pray tell? Because the […]
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The Super Bowl Worst-Case Scenario
February 2nd, 2019 · 1 Comment · Football, NFL, Rams
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Memories of Super Bowl Week
January 28th, 2019 · No Comments · Football, NFL, Rams
I’m not sure how many Super Bowls I covered. I could search it out, but let’s just say it probably was 12, over a three-decade period. From the time I was trusted to cover a major event, which commenced around 1980, I did any Super Bowl that was within driving distance from the office (250 […]
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Half a Century Since Jets’ Super Bowl Upset
January 11th, 2019 · 1 Comment · Football, NFL, Rams
Just read a piece in the Wall Street Journal by a reporter noting today is the 50th anniversary of the New York Jets’ 16-7 upset of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl 3. Most football fans who were over the age of 10 or 12, on January 12, 1969, remember the event. I fall into […]
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The Best NFL Team No One Cares About
December 13th, 2018 · No Comments · Chargers, Football, NFL, Rams
That would be the San Diego … uh, Los Angeles … Chargers. Are they good? Turns out, yes. Yes they are. The Chargers are 11-3 good, and only two teams in the NFL have a better record — the New Orleans Saints and the Los Angeles Rams, each 11-2. The Chiefs are 11-3, as are […]
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Los Angeles Rams: Defense First? Not Any More
November 17th, 2018 · No Comments · NFL, Rams
Those of us who grew up as fans of the Los Angeles Rams, over three decades, from 1960 to 1989 … we expected that if they won — and they tended to — it mostly would be about the team’s defense. The Rams offense tended to be vanilla, and not a quality vanilla. No, it […]
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Next Up for Los Angeles: The Rams
October 30th, 2018 · No Comments · NFL, Rams
So much for the Dodgers. Realists had no hope for them, once they coughed up Game 4 and, truth be told, even if they had tied the series at 2-2 … them winning two of three from Boston, with two of those games played at Fenway … well, it just seemed really unlikely. The Red […]
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Rams Revolution: Sparing Starters Preseason Punishment
September 10th, 2018 · 1 Comment · Football, NFL, Rams
The Rams offense this summer did something that has never happened in National Football League history: Ten of their 11 starters on offense did not play a single minute of preseason football, according to The Orange County Register. Players have been complaining for years about the four-game exhibition season, and so have some coaches. And […]
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An Escapee from Hell: The XFL Returns
January 25th, 2018 · No Comments · Los Angeles Rams, NFL, Rams
We thought we had buried the XFL after one limp and forgettable season, in 2001. But now it is back, a ragged zombie out of the grave, with wrestling impresario Vince McMahon planning to take another whack at the 11-on-11 game two years from now. McMahon promises a “re-imagined” game … and I imagine it […]
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Clock Runs Out on Rams’ Breakthrough Season
January 6th, 2018 · No Comments · Football, NFL, Rams
So, there we were, feeling … well, not fat and sassy about the Los Angeles Rams’ chances in the first round of the playoffs … but reasonably confident. Worried about the placekicker, a little concerned about the defensive secondary, but in all pretty optimistic about their chances of defeating the Atlanta Falcons at the Coliseum. […]
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Might the Rams Go Down Kicking?
January 5th, 2018 · No Comments · Football, NFL, Rams
The Los Angeles Rams should be well-prepared for their first home playoff game since 1985. –As winners of the NFC West, they get to play at home, presumably before a capacity crowd at the Coliseum, just like the old days, before the Anaheim interlude and the stint as that St. Louis Club. –Having clinched a […]
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