Our city’s most prominent architectural feature .. a big frowny face? … and you can blame the Rams (and Blues) for dragging us down. According to Forbes, how our pro sports teams do is a leading economic indicator (emphasis mine). Our Misery Measure takes into account unemployment, taxes (both sales and income), commute times, violent […]

Following up on yesterday’s offer to Bucco40 at What The Bucs, I’ve received an initial parry from him. He’s showing a little, shall we say, “reluctance.” Surprising? Here’s his response, and my attempts to sway him after the break. Interesting you raise that point as reports today say that Bucs GM Dominik has stated his […]

Could Spags be angling back to NY? ProFootballTalk picked up on an item in the latest Bernie Bits column, and turned it into a tiny seed of a nightmare. When Steve Spagnuolo agreed to become the Rams’ head coach, he had an opt-out clause inserted in his contract. If the franchise got sold, Spagnuolo would […]

An all-too familiar sight… In a post last month, we looked at the disturbing trend of season-ending injuries suffered at the Edward Jones Dome. How bad was it? The Rams IR’ed players after each of their first four home games, and every game thereafter saw a Rams player go down with an injury that led […]

One of the shortest stints of ownership in Rams’ history may actually have been one of the most productive, despite a paucity of wins. Check out this timeline of events that occurred under the watch of Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez, and reflect the positive culture of change that they brought to this team. (Updated […]

For the first time since Bill Bidwill, St. Louis will have a locally-owned football team. According to Bernie Miklasz, who has been consistently on the forefront of coverage of the Rams’ ownership situation, Illinois businessman Shahid Khan will become the majority owner of the Rams. So I suppose we can put to rest all of […]

According to TMZ, there will be no criminal charges filed against Steven Jackson from Supriya Harris’ complaint against the Rams’ running back. “Las Vegas police tell us there’s simply not enough evidence to move forward with the case,” says the article. Given that there was no physical evidence, since the police were never called, it […]

I’m all over the map heading into this Super Bowl matchup between the Saints and Colts. I find that my loyalties and my predictions on how the game is going to go down change hour by hour. Here’s just a few thoughts that have been swirling around in my head, on the ’09 Saints versus […]

This is the time of year to be frothing over draft picks, collegiate breakthroughs, obsessing over the history of first round busts. In other words, a time of year only for the rabid fan, which makes up a small percentage of the people who go to games, watch on TV, buy posters for their kids […]

The Conference Championships are always a bittersweet moment. It’s the last real Sunday of football, in the sense that the six-plus hours of on-field action are at least a match for the hours of televised pre-game hype. The teams in this final four are playing for huge stakes, the last “win or go home” games […]

News is out, in the pages of the Post Dispatch, that Chip and Lucia Rosenbloom are considering three serious offers — including Dave Checketts’ — to sell the Rams. And they’ll make their decision before the draft. For all you fans of the Saint Louis Rams, here is the kernel of the story: The three […]

The running theme so far this weekend has been the value of rest — a poke in the eye to all of us who ridiculed the Colts and Saints for laying down in the last weeks of the season. Neither team showed much rust, with the Saints looking every bit the Greatest Show II team […]

The first weekend of football dropped a couple of pretenders, including the Eagles and Bengals, saw the downfall of the mighty Patriots, introduced an ideal smashmouth dark horse candidate in the Jets, and gave us perhaps the game of the season between the Packers and Cardinals — as well as a fresh bit of overtime […]

Last week’s post and poll about concussions, dogfighting, and the possibility of Michael Vick as the next Rams quarterback yielded some surprising results: Rams fans appear to be very supportive of Vick. By more than a 2:1 margin. A much larger sample voted in Bernie Miklasz’s Five Minutes blog, with much the same results. Naturally, […]

Editor’s note: This started as a comment of mine over at Turf Show Times, but I feel it’s a topic worthy of a full post. In the third round of the 2009 draft, Billy Devaney and the Rams reached for a physical cornerback from the University of Iowa named Bradley Fletcher. Devaney and Spagnuolo touted […]