
No NFL franchise has moved around quite like the Los Angeles Rams. The team was founded in Cleveland in 1936, took its name from the Fordham Rams of college football, and joined the NFL in 1937. It won the 1945 NFL Championship behind rookie quarterback and league MVP Bob Waterfield, then relocated to Los Angeles in 1946 as the first NFL team in the city. The 1946 signings of Kenny Washington and Woody Strode reintegrated professional football. Nearly five decades in Southern California, split between the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Anaheim Stadium, gave way to 21 seasons as the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015 before the franchise moved back home in 2016. The through line of all that movement: championships in three different cities, with titles in Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951 and 2021, and St. Louis in 1999, a feat no other NFL franchise can claim.
Every stop added a signature era. The Fearsome Foursome defensive line of Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, Rosey Grier, and Lamar Lundy made the 1960s Rams a defensive institution. Seven consecutive NFC West titles arrived between 1973 and 1979, capped by the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance after the 1979 season. In St. Louis, the Greatest Show on Turf offense built around Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, and Torry Holt scored 526 points in 1999 and closed that season with a 23-16 win over the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. Back in Los Angeles, Sean McVay took over as head coach in 2017 at age 30, the youngest head coach in modern NFL history, and the Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI after the 2021 season, becoming the second NFL team to win a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
Los Angeles Rams tickets now come with one of the grandest stages in sports: SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, the $5 billion-plus venue the franchise opened in 2020 and shares with the Los Angeles Chargers. The bowl seats about 70,000 for football. The NFC West calendar guarantees two dates a year with the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, and Arizona Cardinals, and the 49ers series is the headliner, a California feud that dates to the 1950s and gets compared to the rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants in baseball. The Rams and 49ers are also the only two teams that have played in the NFC West since the division formed in 1970.
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