[Elvis]

My GOD I'm happy there's no red font.

Hey man, what's the fallout in SD from Carson getting smoked and what do you think Spanos' next move will be?

[LoyalRam]

My GOD I'm happy there's no red font.

Wut? No red font?

[LoyalRam]

I'm still stunned and still would bet Dean moves.

But the overwhelming reaction to Dean's plight is...
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Loser"

He screwed the pooch after the decision was made about Inglewood. Right now, the media is dealing in Rams nostalgia. Kroenke is treated like a hero, and old Rams fans that hated the Rams after they left in 1995, are having "come to Jesus" moments about becoming fans again....Little kids want Todd Gurley jerseys, because he's the most exciting player on the Rams.

Chargers will be a decided second bannana if they come now. I think the $100 million owners gift, $200 million NFL loan, and not having to pay $550 million relocation fee (plus San Diego Public Money), would go a long way to paying for a San Diego Stadium..A stadium that would host Super Bowls. A stadium where Spanos would be King.

[LoyalRam]

My GOD I'm happy there's no red font.

Wut? No red font?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

ha!

[cgsuddeath]

Well, my experience was supported and encouraged by one of the largest Rams Boards at the time: ROD.

eta: I am not talking about all StL posters. Just the few who have posted against me on other teams boards and called me out as an "LA" fan and not a true fan of the Rams.

They constanlty called me not a 'true" Rams fan because I would not troll other teams. and, ROD supported them on this. I was called a hooker and worse, and X had a few choice words to support this trolling.

Since I really don't care about what happens in STL anymore, and have deleted all my connections to anything STL Rams related, I wasn't even going to read this thread, but I was bored so I did.

The only thing I feel strongly about is the sleeze that exists on ROD. I'm sure there are some very nice posters over there, but that X guy and his buddy whatever his name is are pure phony thieves. I think most of the posters on this board know how I feel about them from previous posts, but I just wanted to warn the new posters here to stay away from them. ROD is a disgrace to Rams fans everywhere.

I think everyone here knows that how i now feel about ROD. After years of supporting that site, I was also treated badly. For the new posters who are interested, there's a lengthy thread at viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1057

I didn't realize they were that nutty over there

[RedAlice]

I'm still stunned and still would bet Dean moves.

But the overwhelming reaction to Dean's plight is...
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Loser"

You need to post more.

And: I loved seeing Dean barely even able to talk at the Presser after the vote. That was awesome.

[RedAlice]

I'll be back more.

We need a QB!!!

Oh, yes we do!

I keep imagining Brees here. Pretty sure that won't happen.

I don't watch college ball, so I am at zero on the draft.

But: DO NOT want P Mannning.

Keep being here, you.

[RedAlice]

We LA Rams fans had to suck it up for over 2 decades. 336 regular season games we watched our team from afar with another cities name and it's fans enjoying them. That is a long long time.
Sure we learned to accept it, but it was a mixed emotion for many. The team went down a notch and the unconditional love was challenged, or at least bruised.

Then they killed the uniform. Blasphemy.

Now after all these years, by the grace of the shield, we have them back where they belong. Each of us can feel that rise in spirit, going back up a notch or 2.

We have new humility but with that we carry collateral damage. We were treated badly by many Rams fans from StL. In a way I'm certain we in Los Angeles threatened them. Not only due to the teams history here and the shear size of our region, but because any reasonable compassionate man or woman would have to feel a bit awkward knowing how we must feel.

The level of civility was actually impressive, but that was mostly due to OUR reserve. Once relocation talk began, lines got drawn between us. The true nature of many started to show through,, on both side of the line of debate. It became a dirty scrum.

Now that it is over, I find myself patrolling (not trolling) the PD and ROD and I found some StL fans handle it better than others. Some are showing us the respect we always deserved and others are so fighting mad they would rather crap down our necks, see our owner and the NFL execs dead and feel they can file and win lawsuits just to get even with the perpetrators.

Any good REAL Rams fan who want's to stick with our team, I welcome them. To the rest It's a little too late and to them and St Louis, I say good riddance.

I hope this is the last time I ever hear about or type St. Louis.

Well said Hacksaw. You wrote everything I feel.

[/zn/]

Now that it is over, I find myself patrolling (not trolling) the PD and ROD and I found some StL fans handle it better than others.

From my point of view, what you are seeing is some St. Louis fans on two boards. So our experience is different, and in a lot of ways. There were always more than just 2-3 Rams boards, and they all have completely different characters and ways of being communities. I do know that when I first went on the net in 97, LA fans were as different and non-homogenous as the St. Louis fans are now. Some angrily were still fighting in 97, some were just nomad fans and would say different things about it, and so on. I have been friends with many of them for nearly 2 decades now---met some, interacted online with others. This probably numbers far more than in the dozens...how many people do you meet online in nearly 20 years? Who knows. I never judged any of their reactions back then, just as I am not judging St. Louis fans now. I didn't walk in their shoes; I haven't walked in yours. I personally can't tell someone how to handle something like this, and tend not to judge how anyone feels about it. I know so many LA fans who stuck with the team for years who have reactions now very different from yours (and that's not meant to be a judgement of them OR you). Some do tend to express themselves in terms of how "they" treated "us," and some (from what I can tell) don't think of it in those terms at all, and from what I saw, they never did. The upshot is, I am not seeing anyone yet whose generalizations cover everything I personally am seeing out there...other than, as a rule, you can say diehard longterm LA fans are glad the team is moving there, and longterm St. Louis fans as a rule are sad the team is leaving. Just that, it seems, there's lots of different ways to be glad or sad.

Meanwhile, also, when I read you, I see a diehard longterm Rams fan who always wanted his team back and is glad it turned out that way. So whenever someone somewhere else says "LA fans are this way" your post will be one of the ones I think when I go "I dunno, there's all kinds of different LA fans out there."

One experience I had sticks out. Back in 99, I was on a board that no longer exists though the community there was the basis for both the Herd board and the huddle. It was February. I came online to see what was what, and suddenly, 4 or 5 different guys at once posted threads about a Faulk trade. The excitement was electric. It was the only time in my online experience where you could look at the main page of a fan site and every time you hit refresh, the 1st page was different. And I mean this was within seconds and I mean entirely different. That's literally true--within seconds. So many people were posting at once that the first page was changing constantly. And it was everyone---LA fans, northern cal fans, nomads from all over the country and in fact the world, St.Louis fans, fans in Hawaii, everything.

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[LoyalRam]

So zn, we all feel differently. People of like interests probably congregate to places that broadly reflect their point of view, where it's the small issues within that framework that are argued over.

Many of us were kicked out from the PD, because we expressed a fundamentally different POV and they couldn't handle it. At Rams on Demand, they wanted to only discuss football issues until relocation was decided, and strictly eliminated threads about relocation until the other day. I still posted there sporadically, but it felt to me like the site had stuck it's head in the sand, by banning a topic that every fan cared about. This site leans more toward the new equilibrium where we are the LA Rams again, but welcomes fans from St Louis. I go to another forum that is/was even more slanted toward LA Ram relocation, and was antagonistic toward the PD, as most of us were the "banned" from the Post Dispatch. This was the site where St Louis Trolls like like Andy B would come to troll.

I point all of this out because people can go where they want. I understand that generalizations about every segment of the fanbase is probably not accurate. Real Ram fans from St Louis may take a time out and return to the Rams in a few years. I have no time, nor emotional energy to waste, dealing with those that are just St Louis fans and not Rams fans. They can go to places and rant about how they were screwed at the PD, or anywhere else. To me it feels that a wrong was made right, and I choose to look forward to what the Rams will become in Inglewood. I want to to begin focusing on the Los Angeles Rams, the Draft, Tickets at the Coliseum, Training Camp(s), etc....I am mentally leaving St Louis behind...