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  • #37463
    PA Ram
    Participant

    Does he post on any boards anymore? Is he okay? This is his dream come true. Haven’t heard anything from him in awhile.

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    #37465
    Avatar photoAgamemnon
    Participant

    I wondered about that, too. There was no one more passionate than grits.

    Agamemnon

    #37467
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    I heard he changed his mind about the
    whole LA thing. Now, the thinks
    the Rams should be back in Cleveland.
    So, he’s not taking this LA thing
    well at all.

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    #37468
    Avatar photoAgamemnon
    Participant

    Maybe he was really a Chargers fan?

    Agamemnon

    #37471
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Shaky at the herd got an email from him. Shaky mentioned it. Apparently les lost a bet to Grits about the whole move thing, and Grits was bringing it up via Shaky.

    #37484
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    Hello fellas! I’m here! Hope you are all doing well!

    Sorry WV, you can move to Cleveland but MY RAMS belong in LA!

    Yes ZN your right, I did email Shaky. Les Baker before I was blocked from the Herd Board again
    made a bet with me and he wagered if the Rams move back to LA that he would leave the Herd board. Well the little weasel is still posting which proves what a welcher he is.

    Agamemnon, I use to like the Chargers but this bull that Spanos and Fabiani tried to pull this last year has left a bad taste in my mouth about that organization. Spanos and Mark Davis got bitch slapped by the owners 30 to 2 on the vote and they were in shock and I loved it.

    LA is Rams Country!

    Grits

    #37485
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    Hello fellas! I’m here! Hope you are all doing well!

    Sorry WV, you can move to Cleveland but MY RAMS belong in LA!

    Yes ZN your right, I did email Shaky. Les Baker before I was blocked from the Herd Board again
    made a bet with me and he wagered if the Rams move back to LA that he would leave the Herd board. Well the little weasel is still posting which proves what a welcher he is.

    Agamemnon, I use to like the Chargers but this bull that Spanos and Fabiani tried to pull this last year has left a bad taste in my mouth about that organization. Spanos and Mark Davis got bitch slapped by the owners 30 to 2 on the vote and they were in shock and I loved it.

    LA is Rams Country!

    Grits

    Well, what do you think of the Rams chances next
    season Grits?

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    #37487
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    WV my old friend,

    Rams need consistent play from the quarterback position. If they had at least received decent QB play this season they would have been a wild card team. As you recall all we needed was on TD against the Steelers and that game was ours. A missed field goal against Vikings cost us that game and the Ravens game. Rams win those three games and they’d be in the playoffs because they would have the tie breakers vs the Seahawks.

    I would say, lets draft the kid QB out of Memphis and lets sign a good veteran QB (Brees) and lets get a go to big play wide receiver.

    Grits

    #37490
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    WV my old friend,

    Rams need consistent play from the quarterback position. If they had at least received decent QB play this season they would have been a wild card team. As you recall all we needed was on TD against the Steelers and that game was ours. A missed field goal against Vikings cost us that game and the Ravens game. Rams win those three games and they’d be in the playoffs because they would have the tie breakers vs the Seahawks.

    I would say, lets draft the kid QB out of Memphis and lets sign a good veteran QB (Brees) and lets get a go to big play wide receiver.

    Grits

    Well, if by some miracle, they could pull off a deal for
    Brees, they would be a threat to win the division for sure.

    The offseason will be fun.

    I still think a lot depends on Quinn.
    If he cant recover from back surgery
    then the D is not the same.

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    #37493
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    I think you’re right WV. I think Quinn is going to be okay and I would not be surprised to see the Rams draft another pass rusher for the left side as Chris Long will be 31 years old next season.

    Grits

    #37494
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Howdy Grits. I think they will draft a DE. Maybe 2.

    #37495
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    Howdy ZN! I think they could draft a couple of DEs as well. But if Paxton Lynch (Memphis QB) is there when they pick first, I don’t see how they could pass him up. Or Hogan from Stanford for that matter.

    Good to talk just football again. So sick of the relocation soap opera.

    Grits

    #37532
    Avatar photoZooey
    Moderator

    Grits, Grits, Grits. I heard you’ve been banned from so many places, I was beginning to worry you had been banned from the 21st century altogether.

    QB, DE, and (gawd help me), a TE.

    Now, where the heck is RFL? We haven’t heard from him in all this.

    #37562
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    Only place that has banned me is the Herd Board. And maybe that whiney ass Bernie Miklasz.

    Grits

    #37564
    PA Ram
    Participant

    Grits, Grits, Grits. I heard you’ve been banned from so many places, I was beginning to worry you had been banned from the 21st century altogether.

    QB, DE, and (gawd help me), a TE.

    Now, where the heck is RFL? We haven’t heard from him in all this.

    I think the Rams wore RFL down to the point he couldn’t take it anymore.

    Every man has a breaking point, you know.

    He may be following rugby now.

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    #37592
    lyser
    Participant

    There he is. His Rams moving back as predicted. Happy for the fans in LA. The Lou guys signed up for a bad deal at the start…

    #37595
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    Grits, Grits, Grits. I heard you’ve been banned from so many places, I was beginning to worry you had been banned from the 21st century altogether.

    QB, DE, and (gawd help me), a TE.

    Now, where the heck is RFL? We haven’t heard from him in all this.

    I think the Rams wore RFL down to the point he couldn’t take it anymore.

    Every man has a breaking point, you know.

    He may be following rugby now.

    Yeah, i think about ole RFL every time
    I post on this board. I assume
    he’ll be back when he’s damn good
    and ready.

    The season turned out just about the way
    he thought it would. But weirdly, or
    stubbornly I still think the optimists
    and “ten win” predictors were right.
    I think the Rams really ought to have
    won ten wins — if Quinn had stayed
    healthy, and the Oline had stayed
    healthy. The Oline disaster lead to
    the QB implosion, i assume.

    Anyway, this team still looks
    dangerous to me.
    1. Keep the D together.
    2 Pray that Quinn heals
    3 Add a WR
    4 Upgrade from Keenum

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    #37651
    lyser
    Participant

    yup gonna run the ball and play D and hope for a QB. Just like the old days in LA

    #37704
    GreatRamNTheSky
    Participant

    Just as I said going back many years. Knowing of the top tier clause almost from its inception I knew in my heart it was in John Shaw’s mind that the Rams were eventually moving back to LA.

    Kroenke knew this too. The perfect project came along but Kroenke made his intentions know to all when he attempted to buy the Dodgers.

    He also made his feeling known in a 2011 article in a UK paper called the Mirror where gushed about how pro athletes long to play in NY or London or LA. Not once did he mention St. Louis.
    Yet St. Louis media cried their eyes out that Stan would not talk to them when he had spoken loud and clear by his actions and by that 2011 article. That was all needed to say.

    Riverdump Stadium in St. Louis was never going to be good enough. The NFL played St. Louis as they have many cities in the past but it was never their intention to force Stan to stay there. Stan knew this and that is why he was good soldier all during the relocation soap opera.

    All this bull about bylaws (hah!) and take care of Dean Spanos (hah!) was all just that. Bull! As the old saying goes “Money talks and bullshit walks” and the LA money and Stan’s plan was talking good and loud. 30 to 2 loud in the final vote.

    Jerry Richardson (hah!) Bob McNair (hah!) Bob Iger (hah!)

    During his final presentation to the owners that fateful Tuesday in Houston, Bob Iger reminded the owners of how much Disney was paying the NFL on TV rights via ESPN and Monday night Football. Jerry Jones it was reported almost immediately pushed back his chair, stood up and told Iger “Last I checked it was your share holders paying the NFL” and laughed in his face and the whole room full of owners began laughing as well.

    This whole thing was never as much in doubt or in doubt at all as the media was led to believe and led most of us to believe.

    Grits

    #37718
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Grits that post is too antagonistic by several degrees. Board rules: avoid, in tone and language, being antagonistic, confrontational, or argumentative. http://theramshuddle.com/topic/board-rules-policies/

    To be precise, it’s not the ideas, it’s the tone and language, which tends toward mockery. You’re more than welcome to post here and are an old member in good standing. But if you like a board where LA guys can dump on St. Louis, there’s these two:

    LA Rams Fans: http://www.laramsfans.com/

    Rams Fans United: http://www.ramsfansunited.com/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=9d7cdf15215a76a2d260ec743af9b166

    Here, we talk about the whole process with respect for other posters’s feelings. And that leaves lots of room for all kinds of ideas and thoughts, without mocking the feelings of St. Louisans who feel betrayed by this.

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    #37744
    Avatar photoZooey
    Moderator

    Just as I said going back many years. Knowing of the top tier clause almost from its inception I knew in my heart it was in John Shaw’s mind that the Rams were eventually moving back to LA.

    I have read this opinion voiced by other posters, too.

    It is nonsense. Sure Shaw got St. Louis to put a clause in the lease that was likely to give the Rams an escape, but if Shaw’s plan was for the Rams to return to LA, he’s an idiot. They left LA for TWENTY YEARS! That’s plenty of time for some other team to move to LA, or for the NFL to put an expansion team there. In fact, I would say that nobody would have bet money that LA would still have no team in 2015.

    #37745
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    Just as I said going back many years. Knowing of the top tier clause almost from its inception I knew in my heart it was in John Shaw’s mind that the Rams were eventually moving back to LA.

    I have read this opinion voiced by other posters, too.

    It is nonsense. Sure Shaw got St. Louis to put a clause in the lease that was likely to give the Rams an escape, but if Shaw’s plan was for the Rams to return to LA, he’s an idiot. They left LA for TWENTY YEARS! That’s plenty of time for some other team to move to LA, or for the NFL to put an expansion team there. In fact, I would say that nobody would have bet money that LA would still have no team in 2015.

    That little ‘clause’ has certainly
    made a difference in NFL history.

    A long time ago, there was an audio posted
    and someone on the audio knew a lot about that clause.
    I think they said it was put in ‘reluctantly’ or somethin.
    I wish someone still had that audio link.

    I am surprised St.Louis allowed that to be part of the contract.
    Surely, they didn’t have to accept that. Georgia would
    have come without it, i would think.
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    #37747
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    That little ‘clause’ has certainly
    made a difference in NFL history.

    Actually I read up the history on that clause. Shaw didn’t put it in there, the St. Louis side did. It was in lieu of something else Shaw actually wanted, which apparently was for the city to guarantee picking up regular maintenance on the site.

    Plus of course, as part of the history, this could have been khan’s team, not SK’s. Basically SK had a right of first refusal when the team was for sale. He reportedly asked Khan for 150 M to waive that right. Khan refused so SK exercised that right. Presumably if Khan had come through with the 150 M it would have been his team.

    #37749
    Dak
    Participant

    I heard from a local media person on a radio show that Shaw added the “top tier” clause as almost a last-second addendum and pretty much expected it to be rejected, and he was surprised when it was accepted.

    Let’s face it, though: Kroenke and Goodell would have found some other path to L.A. even without this clause. They scorched St. Louis on the way out even with the clause.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by Dak.
    #37752
    Avatar photowv
    Participant

    I heard from a local media person on a radio show that Shaw added the “top tier” clause as almost a last-second addendum and pretty much expected it to be rejected, and he was surprised when it was accepted.

    Well if thats true..just…Wow.

    Someone should write a book about
    the clause. Or ‘Claws”

    Other than the “Tackle” I’d say
    the “Clause” was the biggest
    event in St.Louis Rams history.

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    #37754
    Avatar photozn
    Moderator

    Actually I read up the history on that clause. Shaw didn’t put it in there, the St. Louis side did. It was in lieu of something else Shaw actually wanted, which apparently was for the city to guarantee picking up regular maintenance on the site.

    I heard from a local media person on a radio show that Shaw added the “top tier” clause as almost a last-second addendum and pretty much expected it to be rejected, and he was surprised when it was accepted.

    Two different versions, each from a 2nd hand source.

    Wonder which is right, or indeed if either of them is?

    Not a big deal, just noticing an interesting difference. Fwiw.

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    #37760
    Avatar photoInvaderRam
    Moderator

    I heard from a local media person on a radio show that Shaw added the “top tier” clause as almost a last-second addendum and pretty much expected it to be rejected, and he was surprised when it was accepted.

    Well if thats true..just…Wow.

    Someone should write a book about
    the clause. Or ‘Claws”

    Other than the “Tackle” I’d say
    the “Clause” was the biggest
    event in St.Louis Rams history.

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    they really should make a documentary about this. starting from the move in 1995 to the move back in 2016.

    #37761
    Dak
    Participant

    Actually I read up the history on that clause. Shaw didn’t put it in there, the St. Louis side did. It was in lieu of something else Shaw actually wanted, which apparently was for the city to guarantee picking up regular maintenance on the site.

    I heard from a local media person on a radio show that Shaw added the “top tier” clause as almost a last-second addendum and pretty much expected it to be rejected, and he was surprised when it was accepted.

    Two different versions, each from a 2nd hand source.

    Wonder which is right, or indeed if either of them is?

    Not a big deal, just noticing an interesting difference. Fwiw.

    .

    Yeah, I don’t know how it went down. If somebody from the STL side dreamt that up, they certainly aren’t going to admit it.

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