I enjoy Jon Hamm because I am a big Mad Man fan, but he’s a fun sports celebrity too, and he for a time was a fan of the St. Louis Rams, but that team isn’t around anymore. I know they are missed. I know their logos may be missed most of all. Hamm misses that team too.
He spoke about it on the New Heights Podcast with the Kelce brothers, you can check out a quote or two below. Hamm’s got some nice things to say about St. Louis and the old football team, and it seems like he’d love to see an NFL team go back,
but maybe I am reading into it.
I know I enjoy the L.A. Rams, BUT I do miss the St. Louis team, and I think if the NFL did expand, they should consider St. Louis, but that’s none of my business, it’s just nostalgia fuel I suppose.
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Jon Hamm describes football fandom with Kelce Bros after Rams departure (fox2now)
“When St. Louis finally got the NFL to return with the Rams relocating from Los Angeles in 1995, Hamm said he missed out because he essentially swapped places with the team when he moved to LA in 1994. Despite struggling in their first years in St. Louis, Hamm highlighted the turn around and how the city rallied around the team during the “Greatest Show on Turf” era.
“The first couple years they’re terrible… it was bad until Dick Vermeil shows up,” Hamm said. “Then all of a sudden Kurt Warner shows up, and then Marshall Faulk shows up, and then Isaac Bruce shows up, and then Tory Holt shows up and it was like all of a sudden, this nucleus coalesced and it was the ‘Greatest Show on Turf’ and Mike Martz’s OC and it was like, oh my god, football became a thing in St. Louis and people were crazy. I went to one game at the stadium and I’ll never forget it. It was like the place was electric.”
How the Rams can land WR Carnell Tate or LB Sonny Styles (ramswire)
“While a trade-up is unlikely, several options could unfold that would vault L.A. into striking distance for some of these marquee players. And while The Athletic’s Nate Atkins doesn’t think the Rams will part with their 2027 first-round pick, he did map out two scenarios that could land the Rams a pick high enough to draft either OSU star.
Based on the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart, the Rams can get as high as the No. 8 pick by offering this year’s second-rounder, based on value. They can maybe add a little more to get to No. 6 from the Cleveland Browns, who seem like a strong trade-back option. That feels like the range where Tate and Styles are most likely to go. And that’s where the positions matter a ton.“
Random Ramsdom Fandom:
“On the offensive side of the ball there aren’t many “foundational” players in this draft that I see. It strikes me as a weak-at-the-top draft. Maybe Love and Mendoza. There are some decent wide receivers but Tate would be a bottom of the first round pick in a stronger wr draft class. Would Mendoza be a No. 1 pick in another draft? There are some o linemen who could become left tackles but no real guaranteed studs. There are like 10 wide receivers I’d love in the second round. I love Makai but damn I wish he was taller and less slot-y. It seems obvious, to me anyway, that the Rams should try to trade down and feast on those second round wide receivers and linebackers. But if this logic applies for the Rams why doesn’t it apply to every other team in the league? Who wants to trade up in this draft? Quarterbacks drive the first round and this is the scarcest crop in memory. I love Caleb Downs but who trades up in the first round to draft a safety? Sure do hope I am wrong” -Chilango2
