GRITS has passed.

i’m so sorry to hear that. i did not know him personally, but i was always aware of his posts and the passion he had for the rams.

and yes. i definitely remember him banging the drum about the rams’ return to los angeles.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by InvaderRam.

RIP GRITS. He was on the back to LA longer and stronger than anyone. Sad he’s gone but glad he got to realize his dream of the Rams coming home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0Dqn4eI5E

I remember the very first post I ever read on a Rams message board. It was back in 1998. I picked it first even though it was in the middle of a thread because the name of the poster caught my eye…Great Ram in the Sky. He was responding to a poster named Jack Youngblood (later he went by just JYB). He said “Listen Whippy-dip. Jim Everett could still be a starting QB in this league.” 🙂

He was one of the characters that kept me posting on that old PD board. If it wasn’t for him, maybe I wouldn’t have formed the long lasting message board relationship I have today with many of the posters here.

RIP Great Ram in the Sky.

He was a passionate fan. I will miss him.

Just some more info on all this.

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Rampage2K- wrote:

Sad day…. I talked to GRITS wife today.Told her I would pass on the information

So I saw the post today about him passing away… it was a gut punch ….I had just talked to him last week and he was doing fine.

So I texted him to call me ASAP, hoping this was that other Grits that had been on here over the years

I was excited to see him calling me back, but I knew I had to be prepared to hear his wife’s voice.

Sadly it was Dee…..she told me he passed away yesterday morning and he seemed to have a heart attack while out walking the dog before work. Said he was feeling ok by the time the ambulance arrived, but while at the hospital his heart stopped five times. They tried very hard to save him, but it wasn’t enough. Very sad conversation indeed. Told her to let me know if they need anything and to keep me posted on services. She said they are going to cremate him and have a memorial sometime soon.

I met Jerry 20 years ago as we used to car pool to the National Sports grill in West Covina and talk Rams football the whole way there before the game and the whole way home I’d have to put up with his griping about a loss on the way home…good thing they started to win a lot more in1999.

This was taken right before Super Bowl 36, when we all thought we were about to witness a birth of a dynasty…Grits is the big guy in the Faulk jersey.

He recently told me he had told Shaky to delete his account because he was fed up with all the negativity he had come to see on here and is why you haven’t seen him post in awhile, although he was still lurking as he would text me about things he could have only seen on this board.

I’m so glad that his beloved Rams gave him a season to remember and be proud about in his last year on this planet earth….only wish it would have ended better for him.

Rest easy my friend, you will be missed.

Jerry is truly now the Great Ram In The Sky.

Very sorry to hear that GRITS has passed away. He was a passionate Rams fan. I was happy for him when the Rams moved back to LA because I knew that was tremendously important to him. I’m glad that he got to see them win the division and make the playoffs as the LA Rams. RIP GRITS.

I met him too with you and SFRam. That was fun.