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By Jim Thomas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. _ So what about those pictures, or lack thereof, on the walls of Rams Park? Marshall Faulk’s comments earlier in the week, bemoaning the fact that photos of Rams greats have been taken down, struck a nerve with Rams Nation. While making the rounds Friday at the Super Bowl media center, coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney were only too happy to explain the interior decorating decision.
“We’ve got pictures of Faulk all through the building,” Devaney said. “There’s a ton of pictures of Kurt Warner, Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Ricky Proehl, and deservedly so. We’ve got the Hall of Fame players. I’d love to give people a dadgum tour of the building to show them how we recognize it.”
There’s just none in the team auditorium, where the walls remain bare one season into Spagnuolo’s tenure.
“When we first got there, there were a lot of pictures,” Spagnuolo said. “And in my opinion, a lot of pictures up there were just individual pictures. And you know the gist of what we do: Team First. So we changed it a little bit. We took ‘em all down at the beginning, and then put ‘em back up in the hallways _ all team-oriented pictures.
“Now up in the second floor, there’s still a lot of pictures of Kurt and Marshall and all kinds of former Rams.”
(That’s an area of the building where the players normally don’t venture.)
“But in the auditorium, in the actual room where we meet with the players, we have not re-put pictures up yet,” Spagnuolo said. “We’re still kind of contemplating what we’re going to do. I didn’t think (the lack of pictures) had a big effect on anything either way.
“The mindset is that (the team auditorium) was a work area. . . .We’re just trying to interject nothing but team. Everything in that building was going to be a vision toward: It wasn’t about one person, not about one guy, not about one area. But just completely team. But I have a tremendous amount of respect for the history, the tradition of the Rams. The players that have come before. What they did. Certainly 10 years ago, the anniversary (of the Super Bowl championship team).”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. _ So what about those pictures, or lack thereof, on the walls of Rams Park? Marshall Faulk’s comments earlier in the week, bemoaning the fact that photos of Rams greats have been taken down, struck a nerve with Rams Nation. While making the rounds Friday at the Super Bowl media center, coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney were only too happy to explain the interior decorating decision.
“We’ve got pictures of Faulk all through the building,” Devaney said. “There’s a ton of pictures of Kurt Warner, Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Ricky Proehl, and deservedly so. We’ve got the Hall of Fame players. I’d love to give people a dadgum tour of the building to show them how we recognize it.”
There’s just none in the team auditorium, where the walls remain bare one season into Spagnuolo’s tenure.
“When we first got there, there were a lot of pictures,” Spagnuolo said. “And in my opinion, a lot of pictures up there were just individual pictures. And you know the gist of what we do: Team First. So we changed it a little bit. We took ‘em all down at the beginning, and then put ‘em back up in the hallways _ all team-oriented pictures.
“Now up in the second floor, there’s still a lot of pictures of Kurt and Marshall and all kinds of former Rams.”
(That’s an area of the building where the players normally don’t venture.)
“But in the auditorium, in the actual room where we meet with the players, we have not re-put pictures up yet,” Spagnuolo said. “We’re still kind of contemplating what we’re going to do. I didn’t think (the lack of pictures) had a big effect on anything either way.
“The mindset is that (the team auditorium) was a work area. . . .We’re just trying to interject nothing but team. Everything in that building was going to be a vision toward: It wasn’t about one person, not about one guy, not about one area. But just completely team. But I have a tremendous amount of respect for the history, the tradition of the Rams. The players that have come before. What they did. Certainly 10 years ago, the anniversary (of the Super Bowl championship team).”
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