What if the Rams didn't exist?

*Chris58* · #1 (**permalink**) -09-06-2008

Okay we've had a chance to weigh in our most hated NFL teams. But who would you root for if the Rams didn't exist?

For me it would be the SD Chargers. Ever since the days of Lance Alworth, John Hadl, Ernie Ladd, Paul Lowe, Keith Lincoln, Ron Mix, and Sid Gillman, I've had a soft spot in my heart for them.

*AlphaRam* · #2 (**permalink**) -09-06-2008

If the Rams didn't exist, I would slingshot around the sun and go back in time in a Klingon Bird of Prey and create them. I would also bring back two humpback whales and leave them in 1986 on my way back to the present.

*BIG-BLUE* · #3 (**permalink**) -09-06-2008

Chris58, bite your tongue or should I say break your fingers for typing such a nightmare.
That's a tough one & never really gave much thought about it tell now. Going back to the era when I feel in love with the smash mouth style of th Fearsome Foursome, I would have to say it would have been the Bears & Butkus with his very physical style of play.

*starfoxx* · #4 (**permalink**) -09-06-2008

I would probably be a Bills fan.

Their young, scrappy, and will hit you in the mouth if your not careful.

*RamFan_Til_I_Die* · #5 (**permalink**) -09-06-2008

What's scary is if there were no LA Rams when I started following football, I probably would have become a fan of another nearby tem like the whiners or faiders....what a nightmare!

*ramsanddodgers* · #6 (**permalink**) -10-06-2008

I suppose it would be the (then) Los Angeles Chargers....

*Chris58* · #7 (**permalink**) -10-06-2008

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Originally Posted by ramsanddodgers

I suppose it would be the (then) Los Angeles Chargers....

When I was in high school in the mid-60's, teams didn't do things like conditioning and weight training. The first team to do so as a team in the NFL was the 'Bolts. They even put a book together with pictures of players using their equipment demonstrating how to lift weights properly. They must have given these books away to high schools because our coaches gave each of us players one for the summer and expected us to lift weights to get stronger. At school we had only one Universal Gym the summer of my senior year that the whole team used per a strict schedule. Quite a difference when compared to today's high school training standards.

Anyway, that may have been another reason I kind of liked the 'Bolts. Besides they were in the AFL and didn't really contend for the affections I had for the Rams.

*itsguud* · #8 (**permalink**) -10-06-2008

Didn't we do this exact same thing just after the New Year?

**HUbison** · #9 (**permalink**) -10-06-2008

Geographical loyalty - Kansas City Chiefs

Childhood loyalty - Pittsburgh Steelers

*ramsanddodgers* · #10 (**permalink**) -11-06-2008

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Originally Posted by itsguud

Didn't we do this exact same thing just after the New Year?

Probably, but some of us have slept since then which, of course, means we forgot.... (an age thing)

*rampower* · #11 (**permalink**) -11-06-2008

I would go with the chargers. Play on the west coast, plue in blue and yellow and have never been a big rival of the rams in my time. Couldn't pick an NFC team. Or the pats.

*JFMose* · #12 (**permalink**) -13-06-2008

Tomlinson, Champ Bailey, Peyton Manning are my fav non-ram players. So i'd probably root for their teams. The teams here in the bay area are boring, except for the Sharks and Warriors.

**laram0** · #13 (**permalink**) -16-06-2008

For me it would have been Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. The Chicago Bears would have been a close second because of Butkus and Gale Sayers.