1973 Rams, 210 point differential, #3 all-time in Rams history , that's a 2 TD advantage every game average, only the 1999 & 2001 team had better for/against numbers, wish they had won the Super Bowl in 73
growing up as a little kid in this era i always remember around the holidays my dad yelling at the TV set , sometimes throwing his Budweiser at it. when i got a little older and also became a Rams fan i understood why. the poor guy would always see the Rams get beat in the post season.
I'm 61, freakin love the older videos, keep em coming, would like to see more of where are they now, Dryer, Irvin Harold Jackson, McCutheon, Cappeletti, Bertleson, James Harris
Went to my first Rams game as a kid in '73. Exciting beyond words. The fandom just grew and it was just the most gut wrenching time the whole decade. All my friends were Rams fans and we loved every player each one of us having a favorite. If you were a kid and a fan in So Cal at the time you understand. When they moved to St Louis it was like a family member dying. Havent cared much at all even since they came back. Its not the same. Either way, you just cant explain the joy of being an LA Rams fan in the 70s.
I remember watching that 1973 playoff game against the cowboys. This was the first year that I was a huge RAM fan. I was only 10. But the game started out with a couple of turnovers. They started off down 14 right off the bat
The 70's and the "Big-6". Rams, Cowboys, Vikings, Steelers, Raiders, Dolphins. Every NFC and AFC Conference Championship game from 1970-1979 had one or both of these teams in them. Only other participants for NFC that decade were 49'ers, Redskins and Buccaneers. For AFC the Colts, Broncos, and Oilers.
We ran 7 years of dominance ... with a habit of chocking in the second season. Bittersweet. It was the Patriots that broke our consecutive Division Championships record.
Been a L.A. RAMS fan all my 66 years. Roman Gabriel was my hero when I was a kid. I love the new uniforms. It’s the only uniform the L.A. Rams WON a Super Bowl with. Hated that euro trash gold in St Louis but then they weren’t really our Rams were they. 2024 is going to be great year! Victory on Feb 9, 2025! R.I.P. #18
I was barely three but I remember sitting on my grandfather's lap while we watched on TV. He would take my hands and clapped whenever #29 catches the ball. Harold Jackson was the original #29 Ram. Jack Snow was probably Cooper Kupp like at the time. I remember the Jack Snow name when he used to call Rams games on the radio during my pre teen years.
@@drewnogy They They weren't better in fact on the contrary the best team they had was 1969 rams coached by George Allen and went 11-0 .They could've won the rest of their games and went 14 - 0 with Roman Gabriel n the fearsome foursome but coach Allen wanted to rest his players and home field advantage was not in play. Every other year the NFC championship was alternative. So it didn't matter what your record was, because the rams would've played in LA Coliseum instead they played in Frozen Minnesota in freezing weather. But they were leading min 20 - 7 at halftime. But Joe Capp with seconds to go dove over Decon Jones for the game winner to make it 23 - 20 to win the game. I was 9yrs old and was devastated.
@@drewnogy Yep and when they finally beat Dallas their best player was hobbled... 79 was Youngbloods finest season ..If he was 💯 against Steelers Bradshaw wouldn't of had the time to drop so deep ... Rams would of beat the Steelers! Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
The Steelers were missing excellent ss Mike Wagner and hof olb Jack Ham in sb 14 , you dont think their impact wouidnt have been major difference for Steelers against ferragamo ? Steelers offensive tackles were very underrated , especially Kolb , and Larry brown had done a admirable job pass protecting all season long , thus fully healthy or not the great young blood wasn't going to make such a significant impact in sb 14 ,that it tilted the favor towards the rams . If Swann hadn't been injured in this sb ,both him and Stalworth go over 100 yds for second consecutive sb . Numbers 88,and 82 couldn't be solved by Rams , eventually they were going to explode ,place ex tra defenders into pass coverages then Franco begins to become a huge factor ,too many weapons,and elite championship pedigree , a still legendary , dominant defense and 3 sb wins experience ,10 eventual hofers ,a top 7 all time headcoach , werent going to lose sb 14 vs Rams . @@ericunderwood8080
My uncle Gene howard played for them cats in 1973 an the saints before the rams an then played for wfl in LA.. Love my uncle gene howard an he still living but sadly my Aunt passed away his wife . His 76 years old an still kicking lol luh ya unc💯.
@@charismatic9904 The Cowboys or Vikings knocked the Rams out of the playoffs in 73. 74. 75, 76, 77, and 78. The Rams dominated the 1970's as long as the weren't playing either of those two teams in the playoffs. As a Ram fan i knew the jig was up as soon as the playoffs started and those two teams were waiting for us. The difference was obvious, those two teams had Hall of Fame quarterbacks and we had what we had.
The Blue and yellow combo is the teams original colors. They switched to dark blue and white to look better on black and white TV broadcasts, but obviously by the 70's people had color TV so they switched back to yellow and bright blue.
Uni's were fine , but after hadl they didn't have a QB until Ferragamo was allowed to play...so they lost in playoffs to the stinky smelly gawdawful vikings who would go on. To get steam rolled in every super bowl and those Pukeface cowoies
Not a Rams fan, but the Rams got screwed in 1973 by the playoff system. Finishing 12-2 and 2 wins ahead of 10-4 Dallas, they had to play in Dallas the playoff game where they lost. Even more ridiculous was the NFC Championship game also played in Dallas even though the 12-2 Vikings had the better record. This game, however, the better team would win. Still, the Vikings could never win a Super Bowl no matter where they played.
@@VolumedMusicMan They had so-called rotating playoff site rules at the time. The worst example was 1972 when the 14-0 Dolphins had to travel to 11-3 Pittsburgh where they nearly lost the game during their historic 17-0 season.
Before this season started, Las Vegas had the 49ers winning the NFC West Division. After the 1973 Season, the Los Angeles Rams had won the NFC West Division over the preseason favorites by a whopping 7 games. It only goes to show how wrong they can be in those Las Vegas Sports Books.
Rams had it all. And, would soon be in the super bowl. BUT!, Then they traded Hadle away. By by super bowl. The blue & white were the best Rams uniform.
Best Rams vintage uniforms ever.. Since after Super Bowl 53.... These vintage Rams uniforms should be the permanent primary uniforms... Period.💙🤍💛🇺🇸🏈.. The best blue and gold/ yellow uniforms should be the basic standard.....No Questions Ask.... Thank you for playing the video 1973-99 and 2018 season
I love how Dryer would sack the Green Bay QB and then smack him on the booty haha could you imagine AD99 doing that to any QB after he gets them?!?!? LOL oh how the times have changed
The Rams just couldn't get pass the Cowboys nor the Vikings. After that year the QB situations sucked!! Hadl was there only one year then the QBs were replaced every year. Harold Jackson was my favorite player along with McCutcheon. I was 11yrs old in 73' And nothing like these old school vids. Love em!!
Look at these great uniforms!!! Bring them back now!!! Give US the RAMS FANS what we want!!! The Jack Youngblood era horns and uniforms!!! GO RAMS!!!
i love these throwbacks too...but come on already..get over it
Ugliest uniforms ever
no doubt 100% nicer
Loved it when they wore these Blue and Golds in Super Bowl LIII.
Personally I love the Blue and White uniforms that they got rid of after 1972.
Larry Brooks was one of the most underrated Rams of all time. What a solid player; great tackler.
Came out of Virginia State, HBCU. Was very underrated.
and Mike Fanning too.
all pro
1973 Rams, 210 point differential, #3 all-time in Rams history , that's a 2 TD advantage every game average, only the 1999 & 2001 team had better for/against numbers, wish they had won the Super Bowl in 73
growing up as a little kid in this era i always remember around the holidays my dad yelling at the TV set , sometimes throwing his Budweiser at it. when i got a little older and also became a Rams fan i understood why. the poor guy would always see the Rams get beat in the post season.
These Blue and Gold Uniforms are the greatest! The Rams should bring these uniforms back, like they did in Super Bowl LIII.
I'm 61, freakin love the older videos, keep em coming, would like to see more of where are they now, Dryer, Irvin Harold Jackson, McCutheon, Cappeletti, Bertleson, James Harris
Wendell Tyler 26 Great !!
63 here
Tom Mack, Merlin Olsen, Jack Youngblood
@@billy2guns720 Tyler was in 77 draft
@@bcmcboot same 64 next month, i remember these guys well
So many solid, talented and unselfish players on that 73 team. Very memorable!!
Went to my first Rams game as a kid in '73. Exciting beyond words. The fandom just grew and it was just the most gut wrenching time the whole decade. All my friends were Rams fans and we loved every player each one of us having a favorite. If you were a kid and a fan in So Cal at the time you understand. When they moved to St Louis it was like a family member dying. Havent cared much at all even since they came back. Its not the same. Either way, you just cant explain the joy of being an LA Rams fan in the 70s.
WOW 😲😳😳😳 50 Years ago. How Time flies
Loved Harold Jackson he was one of my favorites on those rams teams.
When I was a kid growing up, I had a favorite team every year with the Rams in 72. That defense was awesome.
I remember watching that 1973 playoff game against the cowboys. This was the first year that I was a huge RAM fan. I was only 10. But the game started out with a couple of turnovers. They started off down 14 right off the bat
Yes. Please Bring back the Blue & Gold. Gorgeous uniforms !
Great days. Always having a chance for the Super Bowl is exciting.
1st year of the greatest uniforms in the history of football.
When I was a kid growing up, I had a favorite team every year with the Rams in 72.
Yessir ramily we gonna come back, not because we fell off but because we can be better
I was 7 years old at the time but I remembered most of that era I just started watching football.
The 70's and the "Big-6". Rams, Cowboys, Vikings, Steelers, Raiders, Dolphins. Every NFC and AFC Conference Championship game from 1970-1979 had one or both of these teams in them. Only other participants for NFC that decade were 49'ers, Redskins and Buccaneers. For AFC the Colts, Broncos, and Oilers.
This was still 4 years before I started rooting for the Rams! Jack Youngblood my fave!
They had a great team back in 1973.
When was Joe namath era?
@@ericsigersmith2831 it wasn't much of an era...JN was washed up at that point, and really wasn't much of a factor in the Rams' success...
also great teams in 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 & 80
We ran 7 years of dominance ... with a habit of chocking in the second season. Bittersweet. It was the Patriots that broke our consecutive Division Championships record.
@@ericsigersmith28311977 for only 4 games
Been a L.A. RAMS fan all my 66 years. Roman Gabriel was my hero when I was a kid. I love the new uniforms. It’s the only uniform the L.A. Rams WON a Super Bowl with. Hated that euro trash gold in St Louis but then they weren’t really our Rams were they. 2024 is going to be great year! Victory on Feb 9, 2025!
R.I.P. #18
I didn't know James Harris initially wore no11 I always remembered him wearing no.12.
He changed to #12 in '74.
I was barely three but I remember sitting on my grandfather's lap while we watched on TV. He would take my hands and clapped whenever #29 catches the ball. Harold Jackson was the original #29 Ram. Jack Snow was probably Cooper Kupp like at the time. I remember the Jack Snow name when he used to call Rams games on the radio during my pre teen years.
Love these old school nfl films
Great team. Great start to the most successful decade in Rams' history.
I am a Rams fan but nobody choked more than the Rams in the 70's.
@@bconni2 .... I “knew” this instinctively, but I can’t say it makes me “feel” any better. So many heartaches & heartbreaks☹️
.... Still hurts all these years later 😂
Not really choked, it was just that the Cowboys and the Vikings were better.
@@drewnogy They
They weren't better in fact on the contrary the best team they had was 1969 rams coached by George Allen and went 11-0 .They could've won the rest of their games and went 14 - 0 with Roman Gabriel n the fearsome foursome but coach Allen wanted to rest his players and home field advantage was not in play. Every other year the NFC championship was alternative. So it didn't matter what your record was, because the rams would've played in LA Coliseum instead they played in Frozen Minnesota in freezing weather. But they were leading min 20 - 7 at halftime. But Joe Capp with seconds to go dove over Decon Jones for the game winner to make it 23 - 20 to win the game. I was 9yrs old and was devastated.
Beating the Vikings outdoors in the freezing winter for an LA team is MUCH different than playing them in front of 90k fans at the Coliseum.
Revival of the Rams, new owner ,new coach, new uniforms, new QB, new era
in all fairness, they weren't down for too long before Knox arrived. just 2 seasons
Always knew about Dryer's two safetys, but never seen them, thanks.
I LOVE these old Highlight Vids
Go RAMS for life
Hadl was a 1 year wonder I would have stuck with Gabriel considering he had a huge year for Philly in 1973
My man ground chuck criminally underrated
Rams had some monster teams 73 74 75 but always figured out a way to not get to the Super Bowl
Lots of heartbreak being in the Ramily
Because of the Vikings and Cowboys. Rams couldn't get by either of those teams in the playoffs.
@@drewnogy Yep and when they finally beat Dallas their best player was hobbled... 79 was Youngbloods finest season ..If he was 💯 against Steelers Bradshaw wouldn't of had the time to drop so deep ... Rams would of beat the Steelers!
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
The Steelers were missing excellent ss Mike Wagner and hof olb Jack Ham in sb 14 , you dont think their impact wouidnt have been major difference for Steelers against ferragamo ? Steelers offensive tackles were very underrated , especially Kolb , and Larry brown had done a admirable job pass protecting all season long , thus fully healthy or not the great young blood wasn't going to make such a significant impact in sb 14 ,that it tilted the favor towards the rams . If Swann hadn't been injured in this sb ,both him and Stalworth go over 100 yds for second consecutive sb . Numbers 88,and 82 couldn't be solved by Rams , eventually they were going to explode ,place ex tra defenders into pass coverages then Franco begins to become a huge factor ,too many weapons,and elite championship pedigree , a still legendary , dominant defense and 3 sb wins experience ,10 eventual hofers ,a top 7 all time headcoach , werent going to lose sb 14 vs Rams . @@ericunderwood8080
Go RAMS
My uncle Gene howard played for them cats in 1973 an the saints before the rams an then played for wfl in LA.. Love my uncle gene howard an he still living but sadly my Aunt passed away his wife . His 76 years old an still kicking lol luh ya unc💯.
I spy Red Foxx at the 6:50 mark.
And the cheerleader is Flip Wilson aka Geraldine!
Yes, that Dallas loss in’ ‘73 tarnished the Rams season…are you kidding me?
Love these nfl films during the sabol days
yea RAMS Great team !!
106 likes 0 dislikes. Go rams
70s NFC was all about Rams. Cowboys. Vikings.
Unfortunately, the 70's NFC Playoffs were all about the Cowboys and Vikings.
@@drewnogy and rams.
These 3 dominated the 70s and were in every nfc title game.
@@charismatic9904 The Cowboys or Vikings knocked the Rams out of the playoffs in 73. 74. 75, 76, 77, and 78. The Rams dominated the 1970's as long as the weren't playing either of those two teams in the playoffs. As a Ram fan i knew the jig was up as soon as the playoffs started and those two teams were waiting for us. The difference was obvious, those two teams had Hall of Fame quarterbacks and we had what we had.
@@drewnogy ok but you proved my point that the 70s were all about those 3. Nobody else stood a chance.
The Rams blue and gold uniforms are the greatest. The question is why would you get rid of perfection. 😢
I wasn't too crazy about those rams teams because they always choked and besides I preferred the blue & white combo of the 1960s.
The Blue and yellow combo is the teams original colors. They switched to dark blue and white to look better on black and white TV broadcasts, but obviously by the 70's people had color TV so they switched back to yellow and bright blue.
Uni's were fine , but after hadl they didn't have a QB until Ferragamo was allowed to play...so they lost in playoffs to the stinky smelly gawdawful vikings who would go on. To get steam rolled in every super bowl and those
Pukeface cowoies
I love the NFL Films yearbooks! Maybe some from the George Allen days?
I think we can make that happen
the nfl films yearbooks with george allen are out there !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not a Rams fan, but the Rams got screwed in 1973 by the playoff system. Finishing 12-2 and 2 wins ahead of 10-4 Dallas, they had to play in Dallas the playoff game where they lost. Even more ridiculous was the NFC Championship game also played in Dallas even though the 12-2 Vikings had the better record. This game, however, the better team would win. Still, the Vikings could never win a Super Bowl no matter where they played.
It doesn’t make sense. They beat Dallas in Los Angeles, and had a better record?
@@VolumedMusicMan They had so-called rotating playoff site rules at the time. The worst example was 1972 when the 14-0 Dolphins had to travel to 11-3 Pittsburgh where they nearly lost the game during their historic 17-0 season.
Before this season started, Las Vegas had the 49ers winning the NFC West Division. After the 1973 Season, the Los Angeles Rams had won the NFC West Division over the preseason favorites by a whopping 7 games. It only goes to show how wrong they can be in those Las Vegas Sports Books.
The last year the Goal Posts sat on the goaline.
70's Rams, what a shame. Gr8 team with no QB. Hadl, Jaws, Harris, Haden, Faragamo. 5 diff starters in 7 years.
They were really going back to their 1950s colors.
Rams had it all. And, would soon be in the super bowl. BUT!, Then they traded Hadle away. By by super bowl.
The blue & white were the best Rams uniform.
Best Rams vintage uniforms ever.. Since after Super Bowl 53....
These vintage Rams uniforms should be the permanent primary uniforms... Period.💙🤍💛🇺🇸🏈..
The best blue and gold/ yellow uniforms should be the basic standard.....No Questions Ask....
Thank you for playing the video
1973-99 and 2018 season
They also could have used a better coach than ole "ground chuck" more of a tactician type and less of a cheerleader.
I wish Carroll Rosenbloom hadn't drowned. We would have really challenged the 49ers when they had Debartolo. Frontiere ruined our team.
She whacked him....
@@gregorygarcia6558 It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
@@gregorygarcia6558 I saw a gambling nfl documentary that was weird about that
So they can challenge the 49ners ,is why you wish the man had'nt drowned..........🤨
@@6400azIt's just a game
I love how Dryer would sack the Green Bay QB and then smack him on the booty haha could you imagine AD99 doing that to any QB after he gets them?!?!? LOL oh how the times have changed
James Harr!s was a keeper. They needed better QB p1ay and they sh0u1d have f0cuses 0n 0ne player.
The Rams just couldn't get pass the Cowboys nor the Vikings. After that year the QB situations sucked!! Hadl was there only one year then the QBs were replaced every year. Harold Jackson was my favorite player along with McCutcheon. I was 11yrs old in 73' And nothing like these old school vids. Love em!!
When was hadl packers trade?
@Rich Krupp got a huge haul atleast 2 first rd picks I wanna say
The next season, 1974. They traded him four games into the season to the Packers.
Dallas got their revenge later that year 😈
HACKSAW!!!!
Rams were in a bad division for years just like the Patriots in the 2000,s
Middle of the decade, and 1975 in particular.
The rest of the division sucked
The Rams Achilles’ heel were the Minnesota Vikings, they just seemed to always come up short against the Purple Gang.