Dryer on the 70's

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  • September 5, 2016 at 5:32 pm #52301
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    Fred Dryer: “The philosophy was, ‘We’re gonna control the ball and win.’ It was boring, and in championship games, it didn’t work. Rosenbloom was frustrated. Here’s the deal: If you’ve got a racehorse that can win, you race the hell out of him. And you better, because he’s getting older. So this team was all together in ’73. The ’74 Rams were a son of a @#$%&. We had James Harris at quarterback. Our defense murdered people. We should have been in the Super Bowl about three or four years of the Chuck Knox era.”

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    The 1970s Were the L.A. Rams’ Most Dramatic Decade
    http://www.lamag.com/longform/1970s-l-rams-dramatic-decade/

    …Ron Jaworski (quarterback, 1973-76): “Carroll would bring in Don Rickles or Ricardo Montalban or Sammy Davis Jr. or Johnny Carson. They’d come in and have a hamburger and a beer. It was just a little thing before bed check. It was pretty cool to be a Ram in Los Angeles.”

    …Norm Pollom (L.A. Rams scouting director, 1970-75): “They promoted me from a scout to being the scouting director in 1970, and I drafted [defensive end] Jack Youngblood and [linebacker] Isiah Robertson and [safety] Dave Elmendorf. I was probably more responsible for drafting [linebacker] Jack ‘Hacksaw’ Reynolds than anybody else. He wasn’t fast, he wasn’t tall, but he was very instinctive. [Defensive backs] Rod Perry, Pat Thomas, Monte Jackson—all of those were great players.”

    September 5, 2016 at 5:40 pm #52302
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    Just read the whole article. Its got lots of great quotes about the seventies.

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    September 8, 2016 at 12:35 am #52422
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    That’s a very cool article.

    those Rams teams were the best teams in football that never won a ring.

    That’s part of the reason I like them so much. They dominated and were Vegas favorites but it still felt like you were rooting for the underdog

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