1989 NFC championship

[Tracy_ramfan]

I don’t know how many of you remember that fateful January day, it was cold rainy and the game was over by halftime. Rams had a chance to go up 10 but Ronnie Lott with the play of the game. That game haunts me to the day. Sunday will be redemption for those many years ago. Wear Blue, be loud, represent with pride.

[Commish]

I don’t know how many of you remember that fateful January day, it was cold rainy and the game was over by halftime. Rams had a chance to go up 10 but Ronnie Lott with the play of the game. That game haunts me to the day. Sunday will be redemption for those many years ago. Wear Blue, be loud, represent with pride.

Jim Everett held onto the football a half-second too long, which gave Ronnie Lott just enough time to recover and break up that deep pass.

That was also the game featuring Everett's infamous 'self-sack,' a misplay which he never fully recovered from--his NFL career wasn't ever the same.

Of course, it took the Rams franchise itself a full decade to recover from that pathetic 3-30 humiliation, didn't it?

So Sunday's NFC championship contest desperately needs to be "redemption" for our team and its fans. At least the Good Guys aren't coming off back-to-back-to-back trips to the actual east coast, playing outdoors in cold winter weather, this time... :? :idea:

ram pathos...

--The Commish

[Jack85Youngblood]

Flipper was wide open. Everett made a horrible throw; but the "Phantom Sack" was the worst moment for me as a Rams' fan. I actually threw the TV remote and broke it against the wall. I still hate Everett to this day for that play. Redemption on Sunday will be so sweet.

[FelixTheStonerCat]

I didn't start watching until 1990 when I was six.

[Tracy_ramfan]

MNF was the John Taylor game, if I remember the rams were up at least 14? If LA wins they are only one game back in the standings. The what if thoughts were creeping in after that game. When they win Sunday I don’t have to be haunted about that 1989 season.

[harkin]

That Monday night game was just as brutal as the playoff game. Up 17-0, then 24-10 entering the 4th quarter only to be outscored 20-3 down the stretch.

I was working on a project in NoCal that night and the Niner fans I had met gave me the business big time that week for such a horrible choke job.

It’s games like those two that have caused some of my Ram fan brethren down the years to actually give up and pick a new team (some even picked Frisco).

I’ve stayed with my boys for almost six decades, through some of the worst losses when I knew my team was better…….but they just didn’t fight as hard as the other guys. Through one of the worst owners in professional sports history. Through a relocation that lasted two decades. We finally get em back and they adopt the worst uniforms in the league…..sometimes it almost seems deliberate.

A win Sunday evening would do a lot to make up for some of that.

[Rampager66]

The worst part of the MNF game in 89 was late in the 3rd Q with the Rams up 27-13 and 1st and goal on the 4. JE fumbled the snap from center and SF recovered. Then came a 90+ yard TD on a dink to John Taylor... WE should have buried them on that drive...

[EastBayRamsFan]

I invited friends over that day in College, got drunk and got so pissed off many people left my house Just a horrible day

[EastBayRamsFan]

MNF was the John Taylor game, if I remember the rams were up at least 14? If LA wins they are only one game back in the standings. The what if thoughts were creeping in after that game. When they win Sunday I don’t have to be haunted about that 1989 season.

Not only were they up by 14 they were going in again before a bad snap by center Doug Smith muffed the snap in the red zone. Two slant passes later to John Taylor the Rams were done.

[Scotty C]

I’ve been Rams fan since 1975. I almost cried after the Super Bowl against the Steelers and in 1989 My younger brother jumped ship after the NFC Championship to become a whiners fan.
When they lost to Patriots in the Super Bowl I thought for sure we’d win it the next year.
This could either be the best year of my 51 years as a Rams fan or become one of the most heartbreaking!!
Ok no more doom and gloom!!
Let’s Go Rams! We can do this!!

[harkin]

I invited friends over that day in College, got drunk and got so pissed off many people left my house Just a horrible day

I’m not much of a big drinker but after the Divisional game for the 2003 season where Mike Martz ran only four plays in the final two and a half minutes, NOT going for the win and going to OT where the Panthers got over, I got so hammered in the W Palm Beach sports bar that my co-worker and I left my car and walked the two miles back to the hotel. We even had to play frogger on the divided highway.

The next morning listening on the beach to Francesa on WFAN break down on how stupid and weak Martz was was just salt in the wound.

BTW - Martz only had Faulk run the ball 19 times while Bulger threw 46 times for no TDs but managing three picks.
Panther RBs meanwhile had 41 carries for 216 yds (some things never change right?).

This was the game where I knew Martz had murdered the GSOT.

[harkin]

I’ve been Rams fan since 1975. I almost cried after the Super Bowl against the Steelers…

That was the worst Rams loss of my lifetime, leading after each of the first three quarters but once again an opponent wanting it more and ripping it from us by bigger effort.

I’ve never watched a replay of that game.

[fan since 65]

As mentioned before I was in attendance for that game with my brother and a friend. Tickets cost $250 a seat, very pricy for the day. We stayed to the bitter end, a 9er fan bought me a beer after the "phantom sack" to help drown my sorrows, which I thought was decent. On the way to the parking lot I was presented with some turf taken during the celebration and told "here take some of what your team had been eating all day". Horrid game, but somehow when I talk with my brother it is a good memory. A decisive win on Sunday would purge the game from my memory banks. Go Rams!!!

[MichiganRam]

As a kid, I was so ecstatic after the wins at Philly and NYG. We had split with SF during the year, but should have won that late season game in Anaheim. Sadly, the game was over by halftime. The #11 jersey I had on came off at the half and on went my anti-49ers shirt (one of the best Christmas gifts received ever).

I have a good friend who is a 49ers fan. It wasn't a fun week after that game. Conveniently, this same friend decided to adopt the Patriots as his team in 2001. And then also add the Bucs last year. And yes, still claims to be a 49ers fan. I'd like to think this year is the year for payback.

[Tracy_ramfan]

I agree FS65.