subject: St. Louis Rams Tickets : The Rams Have Won Three Nfl Championships [print this page] The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams have won three NFL Championships.
The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity since only four of the players and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.
The team then became known as the Los Angeles Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946, opting not to compete with Paul Brown Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons, keeping the Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.
On January 17, 2009, Steve Spagnuolo, formerly the Defensive Coordinator of the New York Giants, was named the new head coach of the franchise. Spagnuolo hired Pat Shurmur and Ken Flajole as his offensive and defensive coordinator respectively. In Spagnuolo's first offseason with the Rams, they offered Baltimore Raven center Jason Brown a record contract to come play center for the Rams.
On May 31, 2009, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the majority owners Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez officially offered their majority share of Rams for sale. They retained the services of Goldman Sachs, a prominent investment banking firm, to help facilitate the sale of the Rams by evaluating bids and soliciting potential buyers.The sale price was unknown, but at the time Forbes magazine's most recent estimate listed the Rams' value at $929 million.
In February 2010 it was reported that Shahid Khan, a businessman from Urbana, Illinois, had signed an agreement to acquire the 60% ownership interest of Rosenbloom and Rodriguez, subject to approval by NFL owners.However, a month later, on the final day to do so, then-minority owner Stan Kroenke announced that he would invoke his right of first refusal to buy the 60 percent of the team that he did not already own, which had the potential be complicated by NFL rules prohibiting NFL teams from owning other teams in markets where there is already an NFL tea.
On August 25, 2010, NFL owners unanimously approved Stan Kroenke as the owner of the franchise, on the condition that Kroenke eventually divest his Colorado sports interests - a move that was done by transferring ownership of the Nuggets, Avalanche, the Pepsi Center, and Altitude to his son Josh Kroenke.As of Week 16 of the 2010 NFL Season, St. Louis was in the first place of the NFC West division.
The Rams were the first NFL team to televise their home games; in a sponsorship arrangement with Admiral television, all home games of the 1950 NFL season were shown locally. The Rams also televised games in the early 1950s. The 1951 NFL Championship Game was the first championship game televised coast-to-coast.
During the team's years in Los Angeles all games were broadcast on KMPC radio (710 AM); play-by-play announcers were Bob Kelley (who accompanied the team from Cleveland and worked until his death in 1965), Dick Enberg , Al Wisk , Bob Starr , Eddie Doucette , Paul Olden , and Steve Physioc . Analysts included Gil Stratton, Steve Bailey, Dave Niehaus , Don Drysdale , Dick Bass ,Jack Youngblood , Jack Snow , and Deacon Jones .
Former Rams offensive line coach and former St. Louis Football Cardinals head coach Jim Hanifan joined KLOU as the color analyst the year after Jack Snow's departure. Before the Rams moved to KLOU, from 1995/99 the Rams games were broadcast on KSD 93.7 FM. On Television, games are either broadcast on Fox, CBS, ESPN,or NFL Network. Preseason games not shown on a national broadcast network are seen on KTVI, FOX 2 St.Louis, and are also seen in Los Angeles on KCOP, "MyNetworkTV Channel 13."
