Stan reminds me of Uncle Pennypacker on the Monopoly board…he just needs the top hat.

yeah, that is a cool interview.

One slight correction though…. the interviewer made a mistake……Georgia did not move the team from LA to Anaheim, that was planned by Rosenbloom before he drowned.

It’s a shame those 1970’s Rams teams didn’t win one, that was a great team.

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Despite relocation, Rams great Isaac Bruce knows his ‘Ramily’ will survive

URL – http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/14/isaac-bruce-rams-relocation-los-angeles

Isaac Bruce has been through this drill before. The former Rams great, a centerpiece of The Greatest Show on Turf, was a rookie in 1994, the last season the Rams played in Los Angeles. Bruce spent 13 seasons of his illustrious 16-year career in St. Louis, eclipsing 15,000 receiving yards, 1,000 receptions and most importantly, earning a Super Bowl ring with the 1999 team. He remains a community pillar in the region.

As Aaron Donald, Todd Gurley and the current roster of Rams prepare to migrate to Los Angeles, Bruce shares his unique perspective of having made the reverse trip. He also reflects on St. Louis as a city and explains why this isn’t a final goodbye for local fans.

Melissa Jacobs: What was your reaction when you heard the news that the Rams were heading back to Los Angeles?

Isaac Bruce: I can’t really say I was shocked. Probably the last two years it’s been a cloud of “maybe the Rams will go back.” I saw what that did, leaving L.A., especially to the Melonheads and die-hard Rams fans there. I also saw what happened when we got to St Louis. It was packed stadiums. Fans were very hungry for football. They were very knowledgeable. They were there through a lot of downs and at the mountaintop. It’s bittersweet.

It’s a reminder that the business part of what we do has to be taken care of. It’s unfortunate that feelings and emotions have to be pushed to the side.

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MJ: Do you feel like St. Louis fans provided enough support?

IB: I do. Honestly, I do. From the governor to the politicians to the fans themselves, the public funds that were available were impressive. $200 million is a lot of money. To put something together in that short amount of time and have it sealed, it showed the fortitude, the courage of the people to keep football.

MJ: Has it been hard to see the empty stadiums the past few years?

IB: It’s been very hard. I knew what could be in that stadium. I’ve experienced great times in that stadium with fans to the rafters. Tickets used to be hard to come by. Just to see opposing fans’ jerseys all over the place, that was kind of sad.

MJ: One of the knocks you would hear about St. Louis as a football town is that it was a baseball town first. Did you feel that?

IB: When we first got to St. Louis, it was pandemonium. It leveled off at one point around when Mark McGwire started doing his thing with the Cardinals. The product is important, and it will be in Los Angeles as well. People like winning. Players like winning. Fans like winning. I like winning.

MJ: How would you describe the emotional connection between the citizens of St. Louis and the Rams?

IB: They experienced the lows and highs when we were rolling. St. Louis was a hard place [for teams] to play when we were winning. You couldn’t hear because of the fans being so loud. They made it easier for us. They were on a first-name basis with us. They showed up at every event, supported the foundations that we had. It was a love affair.

MJ: Speaking of foundations, the Isaac Bruce Foundation, which touches the lives of so many, is based in St. Louis. How beneficial has it been to have an actual NFL team there, and are you concerned about any adverse effect the move will have?

IB: What we do is God ordained, and we’re there to make a positive impact in the city of St. Louis and will continue to do that. We expect growth and expansion. My plan when I started this in 2006 was to spill out to other cities, and now we have a platform in Los Angeles.

MJ: I can see how it’s a great opportunity.

IB: Of course. As a franchise, we started in Cleveland, went to Los Angeles, then to St. Louis and back to Los Angeles. We’re a Ram Nation. We’re a Ramily. A Rams family. Every city celebrated the Super Bowl in ’99. Every city we were in, they considered themselves Rams fans. I don’t see that changing.

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MJ: How difficult was it for you to relocate from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995?

IB: You’re talking about a 21-year old coming to St. Louis. I was very immature. I think it probably extended my career being in St. Louis versus being in L.A. at that time.

I had spent two years prior at the junior college in L.A. and then go to St. Louis, a place I didn’t know at all. I didn’t know what to expect. I had a really good feeling about Los Angeles at the time. I only knew cost of living would be a little lower in St. Louis.

MJ: A little?

IB: Yeah, more than a little bit. So that was a big plus. Other than that, emotionally, it’s hard to see what this does to the fans. My heart is with them and what they gave us. Unfortunately, sooner or later, I don’t want to say this will blow over, but a lot of people will forget about it and it’s going to be exciting in Los Angeles.

MJ: How do you feel about [Rams owner] Stan Kroenke?

IB: It takes a strong leader to make tough decisions. You have to do mathematics, add some things up. He’s a native Missourian, named after two great Cardinals players. My message is that I’m a Ram for life. I want the best for my organization. I want football people who can take football players and mold them so we can have a winner. Ultimately I think Mr. Kroenke did what was best for the organization. And he did what was best for him.

MJ: Do you think St. Louis will have another football team?

IB: I think it’s a great city. I would hate to see other teams use St. Louis as a place where they threaten to land if they don’t get what they want in their city. I can see the city with another team, an expansion team, so they can really establish their own roots, their own legacy and be successful with it.

Peterson averaging 2 yards a carry and an offense failing to score a TD with 180 yards in total offense is not controlling a game.

Georgia was deeply disliked long before the move…

Inherited the team that was supposed to go to Rosenbloom’s son.

then fired her step son as GM.

let Hacksaw, Bruskinski, Dickerson etc walk.

She left the 2nd largest market in the USA for the lure of personal money, using the stadium as an excuse….

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-01-25/sports/1994025212_1_carroll-rosenbloom-steve-rosenbloom-georgia-frontiere

Stepson says city better off without Rams’ Frontiere
January 25, 1994|By Bill Tanton

“She’d be worse for Baltimore than Bob Irsay was.”

What?

Who could possibly be worse for Baltimore than Irsay, whose name will live in infamy for moving the Colts to Indianapolis a decade ago?

The woman referred to is none other than Georgia Frontiere, who owns the Los Angeles Rams and is flirting with the idea of moving her team here.

At least she has told Anaheim, Calif., officials that on May 3 she will give 15 months’ notice so the Rams can play elsewhere beginning in 1995.

And who is the man saying such a terrible thing over the phone from New Orleans about Frontiere?

Why, it’s none other than Steve Rosenbloom, her stepson — and her former Rams general manager. He knows Georgia well.

I reminded Steve: “That would be hard for anybody to do, to be worse than Irsay.”

“Well, she could do it,” he said. “I can’t imagine why Baltimore would take another useless, squirrelly owner.”

Does Rosenbloom take seriously Georgia’s talk about possibly moving back here?

“I don’t take anything she says seriously,” he said. “But if she does go, it would just be the lure of the money and the fans will get shafted. It’s the Carpetbagger Show. It’s an insult to the fans.”

Rosenbloom’s late father, Carroll, was married to Georgia when Irsay acquired the Rams in 1971, only to trade that team for the Baltimore Colts.

The Rosenblooms didn’t know Irsay from Adam until then. They had no idea what kind of person Irsay was.

But Carroll Rosenbloom no longer felt appreciated here in his own hometown, and when Irsay surfaced as the investor who could pull off the first swap of two NFL teams, the deal was made.

Just as Irsay ran a great Baltimore franchise into the ground and ultimately moved it, Steve Rosenbloom says Georgia — who later married Dominic Frontiere — has destroyed the once-great Rams franchise.

And now she is talking about moving that.

“My dad drowned in April of 1979,” Steve said, “and Georgia inherited the Rams. I was her general manager.

“We had all the players signed early and in August of ’79, during training camp, she wanted me to quit. She didn’t want anybody around who was close to Carroll Rosenbloom. I made her fire me.

“That season the Rams went to the Super Bowl. [They lost to the Steelers, 31-19, in Pasadena before 103,985.] And she dismantled the organization.

“Now the Rams can’t win and they can’t draw and they’ve told everybody they want to move. How many tickets are they going to sell now?

“When you have a lousy team and you’re not involved in the community, you’re not going to draw. She’s blaming everybody but herself.

“All the Colts did was win when we were in Baltimore in the ’50s and through the ’60s. We were heavily involved in the community. We had the Colt Corrals and the Colt Associates.

“In all these years I’ve never seen fans anywhere as involved with their football team as those Baltimore fans were with the Colts. But Georgia has never made contact with the community.”

Steve Rosenbloom says Georgia never did like Baltimore, that the place “wasn’t big enough for her. She likes Hollywood.” She admits she hasn’t set foot in this town since 1971.

Steve says the best thing for Baltimore would be for one of the groups that tried to bring an NFL expansion team here to buy the Rams from Georgia, but she has shown no interest in selling.

“I’d have sold the Rams long ago,” Steve said, “but Georgia can’t make a decision.”

Steve Rosenbloom, at 49, is in the investment business in New Orleans. He doesn’t miss the NFL, though he spent 25 years in it. He goes to a Saints’ game only if one of his three sons “really wants to go.”

“I don’t miss the game because of what it has become,” he said. “We used to have a great group of owners who were football-oriented. Today, they have used car dealers who’ve been turning back odometers for 20 years.

“The commissioner [Paul Tagliabue] is a lawyer. What does that tell you about the league? Tagliabue used to be the guy in the league office who told us what we couldn’t do.

“I was surprised when the league passed over Baltimore and awarded expansion teams to Charlotte and Jacksonville.

“Now we know that Jack Kent Cooke has been planning to move his Redskins to Laurel. The brotherhood decided not to hurt one of their own and go to Baltimore.

“The NFL doesn’t recognize what Baltimore has. What Baltimore has — good, solid, working-class people who love football — is exactly what the league needs.

“The league needs an Ernie Accorsi, and he doesn’t even have a job right now. They’re going after the wrong people. Ernie understands the human side of the game.

“America has to be a great country when two people like Georgia and Irsay can run a business and take an income out of it every year. It shows you what a grip pro football has on the public.”

His fifth year was the turnaround. That was 1999. 13-3 and a trip to the Super Bowl thanks to that miracle special teams play. Then, one yard away from forcing OT for the championship.

When the Titans scored their 1st TD in the Super Bowl vs the Rams, Fisher went for 2 and failed. I thought about that failed attempt when the Rams played in Minnesota this year …In both cases I thought it was a gamble with low reward….

If Mike Jones doesn’t make that tackle on that drive, I wonder if Fisher goes for 2 again? He wouldn’t need to if he played it safe when Tennessee scored their 1st TD. I’ll give him credit, he fired up the Titans in the 2nd half when the Rams faltered in the redzone in the 1st half of Super Bowl 34 to put the game away…..

http://www.nflpenalties.com/

RAMS:
7th in penalties
2nd in the NFC in penalites
5th in penalty flags thrown.

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wAndering…ya know. Like in Lost in Space.

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Funny you should mention ‘Lost in Space’ – Dr. Smith’s catch phrase is particularly appropriate for Rams fans…

Dr. Smith used to be tough guy in the earlier Lost in Space episodes when he sabotaged the Jupiter 2 …. Space turned him into a pansy. I can’t believe the green lady had a crush on him…..

yes, that was a great play…. decent run back by Sims too…..I’m that glad Mason scored on that drive…..

Is there an NFL team that would even consider Nick Foles as a starter?

With that said will Cigs ever get a gig as OC.

Cigs – Foles was no Bueno…. The offense SUCKED

Classic Rams. Get out of the playoff race and start winning some games.

Pittsburgh, Packers, Vikings and Ravens…. all very winnable games this season……… it’s a shame. the Rams could have seized those for victory……

Rams need to win out, and Seattle and Vikings need to lose out…

Seattle is favored by 14 vs Cleveland……, just like the Rams were vs the Patriots in SB 36…..

Bummer…. I’d love to see a few more meaningful games…..

I’m just mad about Saffron……Saffron’s mad about me…….

I prefer Sunshine Superman, but Mellow Yellow is cool……..

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Special teams, punt coverage was also a factor in this game….
Fisher ball needs field position to succeed and the punt coverage team pinned Detroit few times.

Anyway, wasn’t sold on Kurt after the first game.
The Raven game. I only started thinking they had
something after the Atlanta game.

The Ravens game didn’t sell me either, what really sold me on Warner was the Bengals game and the loss to Tennessee…. despite the loss, the Rams showed me they were for real…..

I remember turning to my brother after Warner converted at 3rd pass in one of these early games under huge amounts of pressure and said, “this guy is good and for real”… I don’t know if you folks remember, but that Tennessee game was over at halftime, we were watching that game and thought 6-1, but the come back was awesome, they just fell a little short……

other cool things about the Martz interview, was the scripted bomb vs the Vikings in the 1999 divisional playoff game to open the game……….. what surprised me was that Martz stated that he did not script very many plays…. which is quite the opposite of what Bill Walsh used to do with SF…. Walsh would sometimes script the 1st 20 plays of a game.

Martz had cool insights about Bulger too… Bulger’s great season his Jr year in college, and Martz understood Bulger’s struggles his senior year with a new OC…. they had their eye on him and when he was released to the practice squad by the ATL, the Rams snapped him up….

It’s cool how these coaching staffs scout these guys…….

I wonder what would have happened if Vermeil stayed in 2000 and beyond……