RamView

recapping the Rams and the football world since 1998

Available archives by season: 2008  2007 2006  2005 2004  2003 2002  2001 2000  1999 

RamBlog  Rams reach deal with third-round pick Bradley Fletcher... Rookie free agent profiles

2009 Draft Size is the theme of the draft's second day for the Rams, as they add a big corner, a big defensive lineman, and maybe the strongest WR in the history of the NFL Combine. They closed the draft by selecting a physical RB and solid receiver, after completely wasting a pick on a QB COACHED BY RYAN LEAF... More

The All-Worst St. Louis Rams Team Updated for 2008 On the other hand, which Rams should just cover their faces, like many Ram fans had to when watching them play, when confronted about their careers here? What this 45-man roster lacks in skill and ability, it makes up for in arrests and ineptitude... More

RamView's All-St. Louis Rams Team Updated for 2008 Which Rams of the St. Louis era have covered themselves in glory and made it onto this year's version of the all-St. Louis Rams team? (Or at least made it onto the 45-man roster?) More

RamView's Worst St. Louis Rams Games Updated for 2008 How about the worst, most dreadful, gut-wrenching, hide-your-eyes games of the St. Louis era? Read on at your own risk (and congratulations to the 2008 team for landing a couple of entries on the list!)... More

Hitting Bottom It was the worst of times; it was the worst of times. Rams management started 2008 with the brilliant idea to retain head coach Scott Linehan after a dismal 3-13 2007 season, hoping for Vermeil-like lightning to strike again. Linehan, though, proved less than electrifying. With Steven Jackson skipping most of the preseason in a contract holdout, Al Saunders' uncreative offense began the season in a rut and the Rams opened the season with a rancid 38-3 loss in Philadelphia. And it was almost all downhill from there. Linehan was gone four weeks into the season. DC Jim Haslett got an undeserved promotion, and led the Rams to a couple of wins, but that would be it. The Rams packed it in by halftime of week 9, at which point they were losing 40-0 to the New York Jets. The only decent player on the roster was the punter. Marc Bulger took another season-long beating behind a Swiss cheese of an offensive line and regressed even further. Jackson unsurprisingly never really found a groove. Torry Holt played hard but moped harder. Haslett's non-smart, non-tough, non-physical defense continued to fail to get to the QB and actually managed to set a franchise record for worst run defense. He "guided" the Rams to a ten-game losing streak, and the team finished the worst season in the history of the franchise with a miserable 2-14 record. The only good thing about the Rams after 2008 (besides the punter) was the "Under New Management" sign they hung on the franchise shortly after the season. If you, unlike many Rams players, coaches or executives, survived this mess, and you actually want to relive any of it, you may click here... 2008 Archive

RamView's Top 10 St. Louis Rams Games What are the best Rams games of the St. Louis era? Fortunately, we've been given quite a few to choose from. Here are RamView's nominations... More

RamView's 2009 Accu-Draft Who will it be? Aaron Curry? Eugene Monroe? Jason Smith? Someone else? Is anyone really worth it? All these answers, plus a player who lost his thumb in an "alcohol mishap", ahead... More

2009 Rams Schedule Start planning your autumn weekends now!... Link

That Super Season With the additions of Trent Green, Marshall Faulk, Adam Timmerman, first-round draft pick Torry Holt and a new offensive coordinator, Mike Martz, in the offseason, Rams fans entered the 1999 season with hope their team could improve on its 4-12 record the year before. Maybe they can go 8-8! But then a dirty hit put Green down for the season. Oh hell, they're doomed! But then, they rallied around a journeyman QB/ex-grocery store stocker, and played good football. Really good football... 1999 Archive

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Rumors in the summer of 1998 had it that preseason games of the then-lousy Rams weren't going to be shown on local TV. I thought it would be valuable to recap games from a fan's perspective, that fans who couldn't come to games shouldn't be stuck receiving news about the game filtered through a select few media voices. With that motivation, "View from Row WW" was born, along with "View from the Couch". Thanks to the Rams' seat upgrade program, "Row WW" became "Row HH" in 1999. The name of the recap used to vary for home and road games but now comes out every week as "RamView". RamView originated on Usenet, and can still be found there, as well as on the Rampagers mailing list, Clanram, the Rams E-Zine at ramfans.com, RealRamsFans, and at The Huddle. It's the same recap everywhere; read it wherever you like.

The archives back to 1999 have been converted to XHTML from their original Word documents and are now available on the site. Almost all of the recaps prior to 2003 are text only, no pictures. I intend to add pictures but that project will proceed very, very slowly.

RamView started in 1998, but the recaps sucked even more than that team did, so don't look for that anytime soon.

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