i picked up 4 Los Angeles Rams 5 gallon buckets at Home Depot for gifts….

they look better than the 5 gallon buckets at Lowes.

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=los+angeles+rams

InvaderRam wrote:

joemad wrote:

to me this wasn’t / isn’t a race issue

you wish it wouldn’t be. but it is. and for you it isn’t. but for a lot of people it is. i think it was chris rock himself who once said that black celebrities are under a microscope. if a white celebrity screws up, white people don’t necessarily care. he’s just a screw up. if a black celebrity screws up, the community feels it more. shannon sharpe himself said it. black people are judged by the worst of them. it’s unfair. but that’s the reality.

i understand that the Monday Morning reaction to the event itself might be a race issue.

i implied that the event itself wasn’t a race issue….. and the reaction that evening when he accepted the award wasn’t either.    both the reaction to his acceptance to the award and the event itself was sickening.

I don’t think that Chris Rock is getting enough credit for HIS reaction. I don’t know many people that could’ve have handled the way he did.

i’ve seen Shannon and Skip cover this topic twice this week, both times they touched on race…. to me this wasn’t / isn’t a race issue, it’s an asshole issue by Hollywood and Will Smith….

You have an actress (Jada), who has had steady acting gigs since childhood and grew up to be a beautiful woman.

Jada was compared by a comedian, who was hired to poke fun at Hollywood elite, to Demi Moore (as Kareem pointed out) another bomb shell.

It’s not fair to judge a person on a low point of their career, but to give this guy a stand-O when he received his award was sickening….it was disturbing.

Chris Rock handled this almost perfectly…. that’s what should be emphasized….

Howard Stern had a similar take to Kareems, I think Kareem leveraged on what Stern stated about the issues, only, he didn’t make it about race…

BTW…. do folks forget the Dean Martin roasts and more specifically Don Rickles?

I thought he was too old when the Rams signed him at 36.

Whitworth is a great Ram….. He was a great player…. I loved watching him play.

Zooey wrote:

joemad wrote:

BTW, have you seen the New HBO Series “Winning Time.. The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” ???? only one episode thus far, but I love it….

I have not. If you say it’s good, I might take a chance at it. I generally don’t like any sports re-enactments. I watched a lot of the 80s Lakers live, and they were amazing, and I loved it. But I love sports. I don’t care very much for what happens behind the scenes. I don’t watch sports for that. I’d usually rather watch a thoughtful documentary. There was one I watched many years ago about Bird vs. Magic, and it traced their competition over the years, interspersed with interviews from each of them (and others), and clips from games. It was pretty good. But fictionalized shit is usually shitty. I’ll give it a shot, though, once I’m on vacation.

it’s cheesy as hell…. characters talk to the camera mid sceen to help narrate the story… I like John C Reilly as Dr. Buss…..

I really loved mid 70’s to early 90’s basketball.  Hopefully, this show will relive the era i liked so much.

Bird vs Magic put basketball back in primetime.. i too watched that Bird vs Magic special that you mention….. THAT WAS GREAT.

McVay tied in NFL HC tenure with Kyle Shanahan…..

The late season games in Dec were great too…

“”””””””””With the Carson philosophy changed somewhat due to injuries in the secondary certainly, there were exceptions. One of them being the Seahawk game in week ten with the Rams set a still-standing NFL record for fewest yards allowed in a game with -7.

In that game, the Rams did use a lot of pressure and blitzes (even cover-0 blitzes), more like 1978, and it worked to perfection. Steve Largent was held to two catches and Jim Zorn was kept in the pocket all day. That was a task that was given to the ends—Dryer and Youngblood. Carson thought that anytime you kept Zorn inside the pocket and not let him scramble around, buying time for the coverage to break down was to the Rams advantage. He was right. The Rams just buried the Seahawks 24-0.””””

I remember reading this box score on a Monday Morning before going to class…… i couldn’t believe it…. total domination.

I re-watched this game on youtube awhile back… Pat Haden set a consecutive pass completion record, then broke his throwing hand… Ferragamo was hurt too….  thus, Jeff Rutledge came in to close the game.

Rams defense was awesome.

CHAMPS!!!!!

Stafford has been money in the 4th qtr ever since the Baltimore game.

the guy is clutch…

zn wrote:

The Rams defeated the Bengals in 1984 with big plays by Olympic speedster Ron Brown and an onside kick return for a touchdown by Mike Guman

very cool… Rams wore home blues on the road in old riverfront stadium.. home of the Big Red Machine….. note the turf patches on the dirt infield squares around the bases…. very common in the 70’s for teams that shared baseball stadiums on turf…..

I thought Raheem sucked t00.

Rams D has been great.

Washington should get Commander McBragg as their mascot….

This certainly didn’t help to increase her voter fan base….

When the @49ers take down the @RamsNFL today, the best team in the league will be crowned NFC champions, claim our rightful place in the Super Bowl and turn LA’s SoFi stadium red and gold.

Let’s go 49ers Faithful! #FTTB #SFvsLAR

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 30, 2022