National Football League (1937–present)
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In Los Angeles
In St. Louis
The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won two NFL Championships and one Super Bowl.
The Rams began playing in 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the 1936-37 American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, this new NFL franchise technically became a separate entity since only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's personnel joined the new NFL team.

Western Division (1937-1949)
National Conference (1950-1952)
Western Conference (1953-1969)

• Coastal Division (1967-1969)
  National Football Conference (1970-present)
  
  
  
  • NFC West (1970-present)
    Cleveland Rams (1936-1945)
    Los Angeles Rams (1946-1994)
    St Louis Rams (1995–present)
    NFL Championships (2) 1945, 1951
    Super Bowl Championships (1) 1999 (XXXIV)
    NFL National: 1950, 1951
    NFL Western: 1955
    NFC: 1979, 1999, 2001
    NFL West: 1945, 1949
    NFL Coastal: 1967, 1969
    NFC West: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1999, 2001, 2003
    Cleveland Municipal Stadium (1937, 1939-1941, 1945)
    League Park (1937, 1942, 1944-1945)
    Shaw Stadium (1938)
    Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1946-1979)
    Anaheim Stadium (1980-1994)
    Busch Memorial Stadium (First half of 1995 season)
    Edward Jones Dome (Second half of the 1995 season-present)
    
    
    
    • a.k.a. Trans World Dome (1995-2000)
      a.k.a. Dome at America's Center (2001) Franchise history
      The Cleveland Rams were founded by attorney Homer Marshman in 1936. Their name, the Rams, comes from the nickname of Fordham University. Rams was selected to honor the hard work of the players that came out of that university. They were part of the newly formed American Football League. The following year they joined the National Football League and were assigned the Western division to replace the St. Louis Gunners, who disbanded after the 1934 season.
      
      Cleveland Rams (1936-1945)
      In 1946, Rams' owner Dan Reeves, fed up with poor attendance at Cleveland Stadium and competing against the Cleveland Browns (then members of the All-America Football Conference), the Rams became the first NFL team based on the West Coast. (There had been a team called the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926, but they played their schedule on the road only.) Reeves inked a deal with the city to lease the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the team played there from 1946 to 1979.
      Reeves died in 1971, and through a complicated arrangement with the Baltimore Colts that brought Bob Irsay in as Colts' owner, Carroll Rosenbloom, who had been the Colts' owner, took over the Rams.
      Rosenbloom had long been bothered by the Coliseum Commission's apparent foot dragging on building luxury boxes at the Coliseum, which he saw as essential to future success. He broke off negotiations with the Commission and started to negotiate to play at Dodger Stadium, but Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley did not want a football team playing at Chavez Ravine. Rosenbloom was petitioned by Orange County Supervisor Ralph Clark, the founder of the Los Angeles Rams Booster Club, to move the team to Anaheim Stadium, the home of the California Angels. Clark convinced Angels owner Gene Autry to okay the remodeling of Anaheim Stadium to accommodate the Rams, expanding capacity to 68,000 and putting in seating appropriate to football. In 1980, the Rams moved to Anaheim from Los Angeles.
      
      Los Angeles Rams (1946-1994)
      Under the terms of the Rams' deal with Anaheim, they were to receive the rights to develop plots of land near the Stadium. When nothing came of these plans, and with attendance falling, Rams' owner Georgia Frontiere (Rosenbloom's widow, as he died before the move to Anaheim was completed) got permission to relocate the team. After an aborted move to Baltimore, the Rams moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, initially playing at Busch Stadium until the TransWorld Dome (now the Edward Jones Dome) was completed. Interestingly, the NFL owners originally rejected the move -- until Frontiere agreed to share some of the permanent seat license revenue she was to receive from St. Louis. This same year the then-Los Angeles Raiders were threatening to relocate as well -- and did, back to Oakland.
      The 1995 and 1996 seasons the Rams were under the direction of head coach Rich Brooks. Then in 1997 Dick Vermeil was hired as the head coach. He remained head coach until retiring after the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans in early 2000. After that Mike Martz took over until his firing in 2005. Scott Linehan is the current head coach after replacing Martz in January of 2006. During this time some of the most important players have been Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, and Issac Bruce. They were part of an offense dubbed "one of the fastest ever" and "The Greatest Show on Turf". This offense has been under the direction of Kurt Warner (1999-2001) and Marc Bulger (2002-present).
      
      St Louis Rams (1995-present)
      
      
      Main article: St. Louis Rams seasons Seasons-by-season records
      The Rams became the first professional American football team to have a logo on their helmets. Ever since halfback Fred Gehrke painted ram horns on the team's helmets in 1948, the logo has been the club's trademark.
      When the team debuted in 1937, the Rams' colors were red and black, featuring red helmets and black uniforms with red shoulders and sleeves. One year later they would switch their team colors to yellow and blue, with yellow helmets, white pants and blue uniforms. The Rams switched to yellow uniforms in the mid 1940s. When Gehrke introduced the horns, they were painted yellow gold on blue helmets. During the late 1950s, the team wore blue jerseys again.
      In 1964, the colors were changed to blue and white. The helmets became blue with white rams' horns, the uniform design was changed to white pants and either blue or white jerseys. The Rams wore their white jerseys at home from the 1964 season up through the 1971 season; a tradition that continued under Tommy Prothro. Prothro switched the Rams to the blue jerseys at home in 1972, the final season of the blue and white combination.
      The colors returned to yellow gold and blue in 1973. The new uniform design consisted of yellow gold pants and curling rams horns on the sleeves – yellow gold horns on the blue jerseys and blue horns on the white jerseys. The white jerseys had yellow gold sleeves.
      The team's colors were changed from yellow gold and blue to New Century Gold (metallic gold) and Millennium (navy) blue in 2000 following the Super Bowl win. A new logo of a ram's head was added to the sleeves and gold stripes were added to the sides of the jerseys. The new gold pants no longer featured any stripes. The helmet design essentially remains the same as it was in 1948, except for updates to the coloring, navy blue field with gold horns. Both home and away jerseys had a gold stripe that ran down each side, but that only lasted for the 2000 and 2001 seasons.
      In 2003, the Rams wore blue pants with their white jerseys for a pair of early-season games, but after losses to the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks, the Rams reverted to gold pants with their white jerseys. In 2005, the Rams wore an all-blue combination for games against the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. In November 2006, the Rams introduced white pants with a gold stripe in a game at the Carolina Panthers to feature an all-white combination. It is rumored that the Rams will wear more of this all white combination during the 2007 season.
      Los Angeles Rams helmet logo used from 1964-1972; note the white and blue
      Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams helmet logo used from 1973-1999, it was also used as the team's primary logo from 1981-1994; note the yellow and blue
      St. Louis Rams helmet logo used from 2000-present; note the gold and navy blue
      Cleveland Rams primary logo from 1940-1945.
      Los Angeles Rams primary logo used from 1950-1972.
      Los Angeles Rams primary logo used from 1973-1980.
      Saint Louis Rams primary logo used from 2000-present.
      Los Angeles Rams script logo used from 1984-1994.
      St. Louis Rams script and primary logo used from 1995-1999; note the representation of St. Louis' Gateway Arch.
      
      Logo and uniforms
      See also: List of St. Louis Rams players
      
      Players of note
      Running Backs
      Wide Receivers
      Tight Ends
      Defensive Linemen
      Defensive Backs
      Injured Reserve
      Practice Squad
      Rookies in italics
      Roster Depth Chart Transactions
      Updated 2007-08-15
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       3 Brock Berlin
      10 Marc Bulger
      11 Ryan Fitzpatrick
      12 Gus Frerotte
      32 Rich Alexis
      33 Kay-Jay Harris
      44 Madison Hedgecock FB
      30 Robert Hubbard
      39 Steven Jackson
      48 Brad Lau FB
      23 Brian Leonard RB/FB
      22 Travis Minor
      36 John David Washington
      83 Drew Bennett
      80 Isaac Bruce
       9 Fred Gibson
      15 Marques Hagans
      81 Torry Holt
      89 Dane Looker
      82 Dante Hall
      -- Rasheed Marshall
      18 Nate Morton
      13 Shaine Smith
      19 Derek Stanley
      17 Dominique Thompson
       8 Markee White
      49 Mark Anelli
      47 Steve Buches
      86 Dominique Byrd
      88 Joe Klopfenstein
      84 Randy McMichael
      87 Aaron Walker
      70 Alex Barron T
      72 Milford Brown G
      62 Dustin Fry C
      73 Adam Goldberg G
      68 Richie Incognito G
      67 Andy McCollum C
      76 Orlando Pace T
      74 Jeremy Parquet T
      64 Dave Pearson C
      65 Brett Romberg C
      66 Mark Setterstrom G
      69 Kendrick Shackleford T
      79 Todd Steussie G
      77 Drew Strojny T
      75 Claude Terrell G
      94 Victor Adeyanju DE
      90 Adam Carriker DE/DT
      97 La'Roi Glover DT
      96 James Hall DE
      98 Keith Jackson, Jr. DT
      95 Trevor Johnson DE
      91 Leonard Little DE
      92 Eric Moore DE
      64 Alton Pettway DE
      93 Clifton Ryan DT
      71 Tim Sandidge DT
      99 Claude Wroten DT
      57 Jon Alston OLB
      55 Jamal Brooks OLB
      54 Brandon Chillar OLB
      53 Quinton Culberson OLB
      52 Chris Draft OLB
      58 Larry Edwards OLB
      59 Tim McGarigle ILB
      56 Raonall Smith OLB
      50 Pisa Tinoisamoa OLB
      51 Will Witherspoon ILB
      21 Oshiomogho Atogwe FS
      24 Ron Bartell FS
      34 Fakhir Brown CB
      42 Jerome Carter SS
      25 Corey Chavous SS
      38 Jeffery Dukes FS
      30 Harrison Smith CB
      35 Todd Johnson SS
      43 Andre Kirkland SS
      20 Josh Lay CB
      41 Darius Vinnett CB
      37 Jonathan Wade CB
      27 Lenny Walls CB
       4 Fred Capshaw P
       5 Donnie Jones P
       2 Kevin Lovell K
      45 Chris Massey LS/FB
      14 Jeff Wilkins K
      Currently vacant
      Currently vacant Current roster
      These Rams, and St. Louis Cardinals Hall-of-Famers Dan Dierdorf, Jackie Smith and Larry Wilson, are honored in the Ring of Honor at the Edward Jones Dome. Only Slater, however, played for the Rams in St. Louis, and then only for the inaugural 1995 season. The team plans to honor recent Cardinals Hall-of-Fame inductee Roger Wehrli at a game in 2007.
      Ollie Matson (33), Andy Robustelli (81), Dick "Night Train" Lane (also 81), coach Earl "Dutch" Clark, general manager Tex Schramm, GM and later NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and coach Sid Gillman are also members of the Hall of Fame, but were elected on the basis of their performances with other teams or (in the case of Rozelle) NFL administration. Dick Vermeil has become the first and still only St. Louis Rams figure inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Cardinals inducted into it include Dierdorf, Smith, Wilson, Conrad Dobler, Jim Hart and coach Jim Hanifan.
      
      Pro Football Hall of Famers
      
      7 Bob Waterfield
      29 Eric Dickerson
      74 Merlin Olsen
      78 Jackie Slater
      85 Jack Youngblood Retired numbers
      
      Coaches of note
      
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