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We all remember Super Bowl XXXIV really well and talk allot about it. However lets talk about Super Bowl XIV for a moment, what are your thoughts on that game? The Rams really should have won that game and really put a scare into the Steelers. If only that wide open receiver had been noticed at the end of the game we would have won it actually. The Rams knocked on the door so much in the 1970's but only had 1 chance against the Steelers and we came up short. All in all my point is that even though we lost against the Steelers the Rams were one of the best teams during the 1970's but because of only making the Super Bowl once that decade and losing they don't have much to show for it. Us fans will always be greatful for those memories however. GO RAMS!
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For 3 quarters, it looked like the underdog Rams and Vince Ferragamo were gonna shock the world....alas it as not to be... I was too young to realize exactly how much the Rams had accomplished even in defeat but those Rams teams in the 70's and the 80's for that matter had some great players who were really never given their due because there always seemed to be at least 1 team that was better than them..A couple breaks, bounces, or a batted down slot and go and who knows. -
If only Pat Thomas was 5'10 instead of 5'9, I think he deflects the ball from Stallworth.Comment
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Do a search of "Super Bowl 14" on YouTube and you'll find (in 10 minute blocks) the entire original broadcast of the Rams/Steelers Super Bowl.
Man... we were so close that day!
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Rams can look to Super 'omen'
By Jim Thomas
Of the Post-Dispatch
Thursday, Jan. 06 2005
They had more than their share of injuries. During the regular season, they
were outscored by 58 points in the second half. They finished well into the
"minus" category in takeaway-giveaway differential. Eleven games into the
season, they were saddled with a 5-6 record and worried about survival, not
reaching the Super Bowl.
Sound familiar, Rams fans? The current Rams team fits all of those criteria,
right down to be being outscored by 58 points in the second half this season.
But the team in question is the Los Angeles Rams of 1979.
"We were just trying to finish the season, and hopefully things would end on a
winning note," Lawrence McCutcheon said. "But Super Bowl? If everyone was
honest with themselves, they weren't thinking of that."
But that's where the '79 Rams ended up - in the Super Bowl despite a 9-7
regular-season record.
"It was kind of a freaky year all around," McCutcheon said. "Freaky injuries.
And talent-wise, it was probably the least-talented team that I played with
while I was there with the Rams."
As director of player personnel, McCutcheon is the No. 2 man in the Rams'
personnel department behind general manager Charley Armey. For most of the
'70s, he was the feature back on a Rams team that won an NFL-record seven
consecutive division titles in the NFC West.
But in 1979, McCutcheon was slowed by severe hamstring problems, and Wendell
Tyler took over as the lead horse in the backfield. By Week 6, both starting
wide receivers - Willie Miller and Ron Jessie - had suffered season-ending
injuries.
In Week 10, quarterback Pat Haden suffered a freak season-ending injury. He was
scrambling on a play and suffered a broken pinky finger on his throwing hand as
it got caught in the seam of the artificial turf in Seattle.
The Rams tried Jeff Rutledge and Bob Lee at quarterback the following Sunday,
but lost in Chicago 27-23. Enter young Vince Ferragamo.
"He was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," McCutcheon said. "Kind of wild, and
really hadn't found his footing. He was a little bit of a scatter-armed guy,
but had a good arm. But to say he was a guy to come in and win games for us and
eventually take us to the Super Bowl, that was probably a little far-fetched."
But that's exactly what happened. The Rams won four in a row under Ferragamo to
clinch a playoff spot on the next-to-last weekend of the regular season.
Getting a first-round bye as division champs, the Rams upset Dallas 21-19 at
Texas Stadium when wide receiver Billy Waddy...-01-07-2005, 12:10 AM -
When will we get into the Super Bowl?Steven Jackson gets atleast 1,300 yards in one season3we get atleast 11 wins5Marc Bulger has 35 td's in a season5Torry Holt and Mard Bulger hook-up atleast 10 times1When hell freezes over4-12-29-2005, 05:10 PM -
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BY JIM THOMAS Posted: Sunday, February 6, 2011 12:20 am
DALLAS -- Five years ago this week, Pittsburgh defeated Seattle 21-10 in Super Bowl XL, and after that game one of the all-time great Steelers — running back Jerome "The Bus" Bettis — rode off into retirement.
Now what about Hines Ward? One of the all-time great Steelers concludes his 13th NFL season in Super Bowl XLV against Green Bay. And one of the nostalgic story lines leading into the Pittsburgh-Green Bay matchup is the possibility that Ward will pull a Bettis on Sunday at Cowboys Stadium.
Steelers win. Ward, 34, calls it a career. Such a scenario might have Steeler Nation using their Terrible Towels to wipe away moist eyes. Is this Ward's last game? For some reason, he kept getting that question this week.
"I'm not retiring," Ward said. "I'm not in the mood to retire. That was the No. 1 question that was asked. It's almost like they're pushing me out. Until Coach (Mike) Tomlin says he does not need my services anymore, I am going to continue playing."
Ward holds just about every receiving record the Steelers keep. Then again, he has been a fixture in the Steel City for a while after being drafted in the third round in 1998. That makes him the longest-tenured wide receiver with one team currently in the league.
The younger receivers on the Pittsburgh roster call Ward "Old Money." But young, old or in between, Ward has always been "money" for the Steelers' passing game. Game after game, season after season, he shows up and produces at a high level.
For 11 consecutive seasons, from 1999 through 2009, Ward led the Steelers in receptions. (He shared the team lead with Troy Edwards in '99.) The string was broken this year, but not by much: Mike Wallace had 60 catches in the regular season to Ward's 59.
All but immune to injury, Ward has missed only six games over his career. He had a streak of 186 consecutive games with a reception, the third longest in NFL history, snapped in Game 9 this season against New England.
In a game characterized by constant change, that's a lot of consistency and dependability.
"To still be here at such a high level after 13 years, it seems like every Super Bowl I've got a different counterpoint opposite me," Ward said. "I just remember (Antwaan) Randle El in Super Bowl XL throwing me the ball, and then Santonio Holmes in XLIII catching that ball in the end zone.
"I was just ecstatic for all of them, and here I am still plugging along at it. I know one day, eventually, they'll replace me, but you know, I don't look at that. It's not what they do; it's what I do. If I start to find signs that I'm falling off, or I'm not getting open against guys that I think I should get open against, I'll walk away from the game easily."
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