zn wrote:

Anyway, back to your “cat fetish” analogies. Not all #1 receivers are cheetahs. There’s lions, and tigers, and honey badgers.

I didn’t SAY all #1 receivers are cheetahs. Hah! I’ve run circles around you logically.

And tigers aren’t cats. They are classified as Wingless Demons.

Austin Pettis was a tapir.

Rams vs. 49ers: It’s in our DNA | Game Trailer

https://www.therams.com/video/rams-49ers-its-in-our-dna-2025-game-trailer-week-5-sofi-stadium

nittany ram wrote:

I sorta wish Purdy was going to play. Mac Jones is having a much better season.

I was thinking that, too. It could be that a Purdy on a bad toe is worse than a healthy Jones.

But it shouldn’t matter either way. The Rams are at home against a 49er team that is missing a lot of top line players. Frankly, if Purdy was completely healthy, the Rams should be able to handle them without all those other guys anyway. Hell, they should handle them if all those guys were playing. Fuck the 9ers, ya know?

zn wrote:

Kevin Gallagher@KevG163
September 30, 1984

THE MOST UNUSUAL GAME IN #NFL HISTORY

#Giants at #Rams in Anaheim

OPENING KICKOFF: Rams returner A.J. Jones inexplicably chooses to not field the kick, which is a live ball. The #NYGiants’ Phil McConkey recovers in the end zone for a 6-0 lead, nine seconds into the game (the extra point is missed).

GOALPOST MYSTERIOUSLY FALLS DOWN:
Late in the first half, following a Rams field goal, the goalpost in the north end zone of Anaheim Stadium falls over on its side. There is very little wind, it simply falls. Play resumes after an eight-minute delay.

FIRST TEAM IN NFL HISTORY TO RECORD THREE SAFETIES IN A GAME:
During the third quarter, the Rams block two Giants punts in the end zone — each for a safety — and sack Phil Simms in the end zone for another. It is the only time this has happened in a game — the Rams do it in a single quarter.

#RamsHouse.rookie Henry Ellard also has a sweet 83-yard punt return touchdown — the longest of his career.

Rams 33, Giants 12

Thanks for that. The memory of that game had sunk down below consciousness, and it pleases me to have that memory resurface. The goalpost falling over was one of the damnedest things I’ve seen happen.

Mac Jones full participation in practice today (Tues).

Borck Prudy DNP.

wv wrote:

I was thinking about the Hall of Fame the other day. A lot of people seem to think Stafford is ‘borderline’ or that he needs to accomplish a little more, etc. …

I hope Puka wins a triple crown. Mainly because i think it would get people to think about the common denominator: Stafford.

Top 10 single-season receiving yards:

Number 1 and Number 2 have something in common.

Puka is on a record-setting pace.

One QB to bind them all.

zn wrote:

Sami ON Tap@SamiOnTap
The Top TWO teams in overall PFF Grading through 4 weeks:

1. Los Angeles Rams – 89.5
2. Seattle Seahawks – 86.3

Hmm. Would not have guessed that.

Doesn’t seem to me that they have played a complete game yet.

I’m not surprised that they are in the top 10, but #1?

Hmm.

zn wrote:

L.A. will have one true practice this week — tomorrow.

Are they doing a false practice on Wednesday?

wv wrote:

As some of you might remember, i started watching the rams near the end of the 1968 season. I was eleven years old. The only players i knew were Deacon, Merlin and Roman.

But the first full season i followed them was 1969. We didnt have ESPN or cable networks or internet. (We traveled by Woolly Mammoth in WV back then)
The first game in 1969 was against John Unitas and the Baltimore Colts. (who were coming off a Super Bowl loss to Namath).

I could only follow the Rams by watching a non-ram network game, and watching for the game reports and halftime and postgame shows.

But i remember following the score of that first game. Random snippets and reports on the game would pop up on the screen of the Steeler game I had to watch. Baltimore was favored by six.

I still remember the final score. I smile just thinking about it. Rams 27. Colts 20.
Unitas had 3 INTs. Billy Truax had a TD. Roman had 3 TDs no picks.

Anyway, the Indy Colts belong in Baltimore. And the football gods know this. And that is why the gods flicked the ball out of that idiot reciever’s hands at the goal line. And that is why Johnathan Taylor ran a long way for nothing.

Bring on the 49ers. Who stayed in SF where they belong.

w
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I don’t remember exactly when I started following the Rams. It was 67 or 68. I recall attending the 20-20 tie with the 9ers at Kezar Stadium in 1968, and I know I was a Rams fan before we went to that game. And so I already knew of Jack Snow, too. I must have known about Bernie Casey because KFI in LA had a “Groaner” contest in which participants submitted bad sports puns, and the daily winner got a prize. I made a truly embarrassing joke using Bernie Casey’s name…and won. They sent me a balloon shaped like a clown that came with clip-on cardboard clown feet. I was already famous at the age of 8.

Yesterday, I accidentally referred to the Colts as “Baltimore,” and my son was very confused. I had to explain why I made the error.

It is good to be lucky once in a while. My son made the comment that the fumble was the kind of play you find yourself desperately hoping for in those big games when the Rams are down late. Too good to be true.

It was a win, and I’ll take it. I don’t know why I’m slightly dissatisfied. Maybe I’m just expecting the Rams to average 7 sacks a game, or something. I want to see a statement game. Seems like they should have rolled over one or both of the Oilers teams more definitively. Yesterday was a good win, but I don’t know what the Colts are. How am I supposed to take them seriously. Even though their rankings were good, they hadn’t played anybody good. And I don’t know how good Daniel Jones is. Maybe he’s a Baker Mayfield/Sam Darnold guy who just needed to be on a decent team.

I think we got a glimpse of the Rams against Philly, and I think we’ll learn something when they play the 9ers. I just don’t have a good feel for the AFC teams, so I don’t know what to make of those games.

wv wrote:

Billionaires have been building little deep-ocean submarines that they carry on their yachts.

I would be surprised if those yachts don’t also have full-equipped “hospitals,” and hydroponic gardens. Just like their bunkers.

They are prepared for the collapse and the mayhem that follows, whatever the precipitating event happens to be.

wv wrote:

One of my reactions to the Eagles game is to think about the fact that the Falcons lost again.
30 to Zero. To Carolina. O my.

w
v

And Penix got pulled for Cousins. Good sign.

wv wrote:

Sigh. I basically agree with Russell Dobular here. (from ‘Due Dissedence’ part of the ‘dirtbag left’) I set it to play at the 1:07 mark where he makes a little speech. Such a dark view, but i share it, fwiw.

Yeah, I share that view, too. I don’t know why that view isn’t more widespread. There have been plenty of articles on this. The techno-feudalists say this stuff out loud. Their intentions are clearly documented from multiple sources, from multiple points in time. They even say it on camera. And, as was pointed out, they control everything already. At this point, I’m not sure what they’re waiting for. They see most of us as a threat to their survival, and their need for our labor, as he said, is diminished significantly. And the left is not organized, and never will be. It requires leadership, and leaders don’t survive. They capitulate, or they die. Not much of a choice.

Meanwhile, they have everybody at each other’s throats over a dozen trans athletes.

There is zero chance of avoiding the dystopia they have carefully prepared for, and I don’t know what they’re waiting for at this point. AI to develop a bit more? Some civil disturbances? Maybe they’re fine hiding behind the facade of democracy until that ultimately gives way. I dunno. But the future is bleak.