[SWAdude]

I recall Greene playing for Carolina after the Steelers

Thats right. I now do too.

[Watchdog]

RRF was anything but "real" Rams fans as a site. There were many individuals who were Rams fans through and through but the site was very much "St. Louis" fans. Instead of welcoming the traveling vagabonds of fans, there was a very "we don't need(want?) you" from the St. Louis contingent. More than one fan that I argued with at times proudly proclaimed that they couldn't care less about the Rams, they were just rooting for their city.

I was suspended from RRF on more than one occasion and thankfully, someone pointed me to this site. I was not on suspension at the time but I still chose to walk away from RRF and never looked back. It wasn't the worst site but it had plenty of flaws. Enough that I don't miss it.

It's funny how you "Land" somewhere, and stick, and it changes a street in your life. Cumby found me at a site called "Planet Rams," where I was posting the blog-wars articles I wrote for AOL, in battle with the Seahawk blogger at the time. He invited me over to RRF. And that street led me here today. Hey man, you know - I grew up in LA a Rams fan, then I left for Portland about the same time the Rams left for STL. Then I met RRF, and could identify with a nomadic fan-base, because that's what I felt like. I liked the REAL part of RRF, because that spoke to me as how I thought it should be. I thought that the people there thought like I did - and most did and do. But things change, and rubber-to-the-road, the homers of RRF stayed home. It's sad to me, but I don't know their lives. This all may be an afterthought to some of the missing RRFers, they may be at the Blues and Cardinals games, happy as clams. I'll miss RRF though for what it was to me; special for a minute on a street in my life.

[aeneas1]

RRF was anything but "real" Rams fans as a site. There were many individuals who were Rams fans through and through but the site was very much "St. Louis" fans. Instead of welcoming the traveling vagabonds of fans, there was a very "we don't need(want?) you" from the St. Louis contingent. More than one fan that I argued with at times proudly proclaimed that they couldn't care less about the Rams, they were just rooting for their city.

I was suspended from RRF on more than one occasion and thankfully, someone pointed me to this site. I was not on suspension at the time but I still chose to walk away from RRF and never looked back. It wasn't the worst site but it had plenty of flaws. Enough that I don't miss it.

it's funny, i always thought of "st. louis rams fans" as fans who inherited a team, johnny come lately rams fans, it didn't occur to me until later that the young st. louis fans were indeed rams fans, they grew up with the rams, it was the only st. louis pro football team they ever knew... re you're take on rrf, gotta agree 100%.

[dieterbrock]

fandom is such a weird thing... i'm a rams fan because i dug the hell out of their helmets when i was around 10 years old, when i first saw them play on tv, it was against the vikings and my twin brother dug the purple, and the "purple people eaters" moniker, so he went with them, we were living in mexico city at the time and had zero connection with l.a. or minnesota, but we've been lifelong fans ever since... same with the pittsburgh pirates, i have zero connection with pitt or penn, but when i was a kid living in mexico city roberto clemente was a god, he was the guy we all pretended to be in little league, and when my family was transferred to puerto rico after mexico city, it just cemented the deal, and i've been a lifelong buccos fan ever since.

With you on this. Only local team I root for are the Yankees.
Which ironically opposes my love for the Celtics, Bruins and Boston marathon....
As for the Rams, really don't know how it started, just have always been. Family is a bunch of die-hard Giants fans. As a little kid I was huge Namath fan, so the family surmizes that when he joined the Rams, that hooked me in. I just cant remember anything else, from cutting out the game recap from the newspaper, to staying up to halftime of Monday night football to hopefully catch a glimpse of a highlight...

[aeneas1]

With you on this. Only local team I root for are the Yankees.
Which ironically opposes my love for the Celtics, Bruins and Boston marathon....
As for the Rams, really don't know how it started, just have always been. Family is a bunch of die-hard Giants fans. As a little kid I was huge Namath fan, so the family surmizes that when he joined the Rams, that hooked me in. I just cant remember anything else, from cutting out the game recap from the newspaper, to staying up to halftime of Monday night football to hopefully catch a glimpse of a highlight...

shit, park your walker next to mine....staying up late to catch the mnf highlights, couldn't get enough of that, and how about the times the rams game was skipped, or they showed just one play, put a dagger in the heart!

my old man was a cowboys fan, but in retrospect he was really just a fair weather fan, which was easy to be back then given the cowboys dominated... he was also an uber competitive guy, went through college on a basketball scholarship, as far as he was concerned you didn't play the game because it was fun, you played because you wanted to win... that old school mentality, made for more than a few sundays of having to walk around on egg shells when the cowboys lost, it was pretty silly.

in fact i used to be the same way, until my early 20s, rams lost and you didn't want to be around me... then i went to a rams game in anaheim, was in my early 20s, couldn't sleep the night before, it was niners week, the rams were good that year, but the niners absolutely kicked the shit out of the rams, 33-zip, it was ugly from the get-go... from my great seats, towards the end of the game, i watched rams players laughing, horsing around, like they didn't give a shit, and here i was fuming that they had lost, ready to kick my dog when i got home... from that day on i hung up that nonsense, which was surprisingly easy to do, the rams were pros, knew that the game got away from them, and that they would suit up and crack heads again the following week, and hopefully get a win, which was the mentality i decided to adopt.

[BobCarl]

Our eulogies may be premature. I guess we'll see. RRF had been listing for a while, maybe she finally sank?

One thing i will miss, even at the end: RRF was a great resource for old posts and articles. If i kind of remembered something from a while ago, i could find a post, a quote, an article about it to refresh my memory.

All those posts, all that reference material, possibly gone forever...

Everything could be still there on the hosting server, and if anyone can get in touch with Rev, he might sell it for $100. The domain name might be up for grabbs. But Isn't there usually a period of time that the original owner has to reclaim the domain name? Son Dee? anyone have his contact info? Maybe he has contact info for Rev.

[BobCarl]

I guess it was more of a St Louis fans site which would explain why they shut it down pretty much when the Rams moved back to LA.

I can see your point, but I struggle with this. Son Dee grew up in St. Louis, but he didn't go to college there nor did he live there any more. Rev's father was a WR with the L.A. Rams for a year or two in training camp, and possibly on the roster/practice squad for a short time. I can't see him not being a Rams Fan for life.

Maybe the Rams made false promises to Rev behind the scenes. Maybe Rev locked everyone out like Cumby/Prime-Time says happened to him. Rev worked for the military in the IT field. Maybe he got sent overseas and was KIA. Maybe Rev was hired by the Rams IT department and is now living in LA?

There has to be more to the story than all of the remaining mods at once telling the members and the board "eff off and die".

[R4L]

I can see your point, but I struggle with this. Son Dee grew up in St. Louis, but he didn't go to college there nor did he live there any more. Rev's father was a WR with the L.A. Rams for a year or two in training camp, and possibly on the roster/practice squad for a short time. I can't see him not being a Rams Fan for life.

Maybe the Rams made false promises to Rev behind the scenes. Maybe Rev locked everyone out like Cumby/Prime-Time says happened to him. Rev worked for the military in the IT field. Maybe he got sent overseas and was KIA. Maybe Rev was hired by the Rams IT department and is now living in LA?

There has to be more to the story than all of the remaining mods at once telling the members and the board "eff off and die".

I remember u there Bob. Good times. I was pretty much just guessing, but i went there a few times after the move and it was a ghost town. So i wasn't trying to offend anyone.

[BobCarl]

Instead of welcoming the traveling vagabonds of fans,

I agree with everything you said until this. The first RRF games and tail gates were attended by more out-of-town members than St. Louis natives. We loved having great fans many states and from out of the U.S.

But yes it did change. The mods there gave way to the native trolls and allowed them to offend and harass and run off the real fans.

[BobCarl]

I thought that the people there thought like I did - and most did and do.

Nobody could think like you. Your pre-draft posts were so comprehensive and so spot on, Mel Kiper wasn't even as accurate as you.