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10 things you forgot about the Los Angeles Rams

By Andrew Hammond

Feb 16, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Los Angeles Rams helmet and NFL Wilson Duke football at Griffith Park with the Hollywood sign as a backdrop. NFL owners voted 30-2 to allow owner Stan Kroenke (not pictured) to move the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 16, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Los Angeles Rams helmet and NFL Wilson Duke football at Griffith Park with the Hollywood sign as a backdrop. NFL owners voted 30-2 to allow owner Stan Kroenke (not pictured) to move the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Inglewood hosted a community celebration and media press conference for the Rams returning to the Los Angeles area. The team left Los Angeles 21 years ago. A new stadium is to be built ion Inglewood, a city next to Los Angeles, and it should be completed in 2019. The Rams will play at the LA Coliseum until then. (Photo by Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images)
Inglewood hosted a community celebration and media press conference for the Rams returning to the Los Angeles area. The team left Los Angeles 21 years ago. A new stadium is to be built ion Inglewood, a city next to Los Angeles, and it should be completed in 2019. The Rams will play at the LA Coliseum until then. (Photo by Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images) /

The Rams are back in Los Angeles! The Rams are back in Los Angeles!

All is right with the football world in my eyes, now I’m not a Rams fan but the Rams never really belonged in St. Louis. Despite their success in the early 2000’s, to me they always felt like they were someone else’s team.

The Rams always belonged in L.A., from the “Fearsome Foursome” to Eric Dickerson to Jerome Bettis, the Rams in Los Angeles always seemed to have a special fit.

But the Rams haven’t been in L.A. in since 1994 so there’s plenty of you out there who don’t know much about the Rams, this is why I’m here. You’re welcome.

10. Owners of the Rams and Colts swapped teams 

You ever have that moment where you and one of your friends decided that you had SO much money that you traded teams just for the heck of it? Yeah, I didn’t think you did.

Well in July of 1972, Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom and new Rams owner Jim Irsay decided to swap teams with Irsay getting the Colts and Rosenbloom getting the Rams. The purchase of the Rams was a boon for Rosenbloom who didn’t have to pay any capital gains tax. The move is one of the most unprecedented actions in NFL history and really changed the course of two NFL franchises.

The Colts were never the same and the leadership of the Rams became one of the rockiest in all of American sports.

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