By buying and selling their first-round draft picks for Matthew Stafford, the Rams might need mortgaged their future, however they gave L.A. followers a implausible current.
John Toth
Palmdale
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He appears to all the time be open. He makes spectacular catches. He frequently will get constructive yards after these catches. Watching Cooper Kupp and his erratic and distinctive operating fashion, you'll be able to’t assist to check him to a different Rams nice: Corridor of Famer Elroy “Loopy Legs” Hirsch. I recommend he be generally known as Cooper “Loopy Legs” Kupp.
Kent M. Paul
Costa Mesa
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I waited 55 years for the L.A. Rams to win the Tremendous Bowl. It was well worth the wait.
Darryl Thomson
La Cañada
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So what occurs when a workforce wins a championship in L.A.? The standard after all. Shops get looted, automobiles overturned and folks act like whole idiots. It’s an excellent factor we don’t have to fret about it with the Lakers this season.
Craig London
Woodland Hills
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I bid a fond and grateful farewell to the 42-year-old L.A. Rams trivia query that stumped everybody I requested. Earlier than final Sunday, who was the one L.A. Ram to throw a landing cross within the Tremendous Bowl? It was in 1980 thrown by Lawrence McCutcheon on a 24-yard halfback choice cross to Ron Smith. I bear in mind watching the play with my dad in 1980 once we ultimately misplaced a heartbreaking sport. The center is mended and the query is lifeless.
Steve Gonzales
Irvine
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Even all of the followers realized by halftime that the Rams merely couldn't run towards the Bengals. It will appear that the one individual at SoFi who didn’t get it was Mr. Caught on Cussed Sean McVay.
Milt Pappas
Los Angeles
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Sean McVay simply turned the youngest coach in NFL historical past to guide his workforce to a Tremendous Bowl title. With the joy simply hours previous, Dylan Hernández has the brazen gall to determine McVay may not return as coach. Why would McVay reply such a silly query with any reply apart from “we’ll see”? He has two years remaining on his contract. He has devoted his complete life for the final three years to get right here and has each proper to blow off a query about his future with out it changing into a problem that he may go away.
Right here’s hoping Rams administration gives him an extension so he can recover from being aggravated by unthinking reporters.
Jay Slater
Los Angeles
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What a fantastic day for the entire Rams’ long-suffering followers. We simply acquired the Hollywood ending that appeared all too inconceivable, if not inconceivable, only a few years in the past once they had been nonetheless enjoying 1,830 miles away. This season cements their place in L.A. sports activities lore.
In truth, with this win, they completed off the trendy professional sports activities grand slam for the Metropolis of Angels: Kings 2014, Lakers 2020, Dodgers 2020 and Rams 2022.
Michael Lee Manous
Upland
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If this quarterback gig doesn’t work out for Joe Burrow, he has a brilliant future as a crash check dummy or tackling sled.
Mark S. Roth
Los Angeles
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Eminem carried out a raucous halftime rendition of his hit “Lose Your self,” at which level the Bengals maligned offensive line apparently determined to take that message to coronary heart.
Steve Ross
Monterey Peninsula
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Is Stafford to Kupp now in the identical lore as Brady to Gronk and Montana to Rice?
Mark Sherwin
Los Angeles
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It doesn't matter what labored or what didn’t, when the cash was on the desk, the Rams discovered a method. Someplace Norm Van Brocklin, Tom Fears and Elroy Hirsch are smiling.
Steven Wollenberg
Los Angeles
Loads of shame to go round
I agree with Helene Elliott that the Kamila Valieva episode is a shame, however it's simply the newest in an extended record of them from the trendy Olympics. There may be little left of the pretense of “integrity” in worldwide sporting competitions. The governing and sponsoring our bodies care little or under no circumstances about guidelines of equity or the virtues of a stage enjoying subject.
They make up all types of lame justifications for ignoring human rights abuses by the host nation, and their penalties for dishonest are not often enforced or constant. I've no illusions in regards to the U.S. or different international locations all the time enjoying honest, both. We’ve had greater than our share of Lance Armstrongs and unlawful strategies to assist an athlete excel utilizing any enhancements they will get away with. Coaching and sponsoring organizations stood by as younger women had been abused for years, caring extra about their group’s picture than the welfare of younger, susceptible athletes.
TR Jahns
Hemet
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In gentle of the Valieva debacle, the IOC should not have any downside permitting WWE stars to wrestle on the 2024 Paris video games.
Mike Kichaven
Sherman Oaks
UCLA woes evoke reminiscences
Watching UCLA basketball play towards USC was like watching a return to the Steve Alford days: dribble weave 25 ft from the basket after which take a contested, desperation shot within the last seconds of the shot clock. The distinction is that as an alternative of Bryce Alford, we now have Tyger Campbell making an attempt to fabricate offense.
Fred Brooks
Cowan Heights
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Hey Mick Cronin: Third-generation Bruin right here. Final time we misplaced 5 straight in basketball to the Trojans, my now-deceased grandfather was serving within the Navy throughout
World Struggle II. Possibly it is best to spend extra time on the offensive sport plan than you do on the tailor. However hey, do what fits you finest.
Nick Dunlap
Fullerton
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“Now we have to get harder on protection” is Cronin’s seemingly clueless mantra on his workforce’s losses. Nevertheless it ain’t the protection when the workforce makes a file low 24% of its photographs within the second half and loses to USC.
Alan Segal
San Diego
Insult to the emblem
The most recent spherical of insults to Jerry West from the Lakers entrance workplace (i.e revoking his season tickets) is a first-rate instance of the pettiness of Jeanie and crew since Dr. Buss has handed.
Jerry West has executed extra for the success of the Lakers group as a participant, coach and GM than every other individual.
Ms. Buss, I feel your dad would have very completely different opinion of your actions.
On behalf of many longtime appreciative followers, sorry you've got been handled like this, Mr. West.
Kenneth Van Etten
Coronado
It’s good to be Kings
Glad to see that Invoice Plaschke acknowledges in his in any other case glorious column on the Rams’ Tremendous Bowl wins that there are “4 main sports activities” in Los Angeles.
Sadly, he begins his column off with “Transfer over, Lakers. Again up, Dodgers.” How in regards to the two-time Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings? Certainly, the Kings are a part of L.A.'s legacy of champions.
Steve Mehlman
Beaumont
Blanket protection?
With the Rams now profitable a championship of their new house SoFi stadium, the Chargers have now accomplished that transformation into the “Los Angeles” Clippers. Now the one query stays, will the Chargers cowl up the Rams Tremendous Bowl banner throughout Chargers “house” video games?
Brian Haueter
Ventura
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