The Cleveland Rams: The NFL Champs Who Left Too Soon,

The Cleveland Rams: The NFL Champs Who Left Too Soon, 1936-1945

In 2016 the Rams left St. Louis for Los Angelesâ€”having departed L.A. for St. Louis in 1995â€”and caused much heartbreak among fans. NFL teams are notorious for decamping to more profitable markets and the Ramsâ€™ history of opportunistic moves goes back to 1946, when they left Cleveland, their original hometown, where fans had cheered them to a championship a month earlier.
The move to L.A. from Cleveland shocked the NFL and shook up its power structure. It also jolted the all-white league into reintegration, prepared the way for the Browns, and made the Rams the only NFL champs ever to have spent the following season in a different city.
This is the story of how the Rams went from a home-grown Ohio team funded by local businessmen to the first major-league franchise on the West Coast, and how their departure jumpstarted a chain of events in Cleveland that continues to this day.
Country USA
Manufacturer McFarland
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-21
Format Kindle eBook

The Cleveland Rams: The NFL Champs Who Left Too Soon, 1936-1945