Dear St. Louis football fans

The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in Los Angeles, California, which competes in the National Football League's NFC West division. The franchise has won three NFL championships, and is the only one to win championships representing three different cities (Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951, and St. Louis in 1999). The Rams play their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

One thing always remains the same......the Ram helmet might change colors but it still is always a Ram design. 

Obviously there are very few fans left in Cleveland but imagine the old guy who was a Ram fan as a young man when they won the Championship in 1945 AND THEN MOVED TO LOS ANGELES THE NEXT YEAR.

THAT KID WAS CRUSHED......

But The Cleveland Browns were born and legends were made and the people of Cleveland never looked back.....except for that one old man who remembers when he was 8 and the Cleveland Rams were champs. Then 4 years later the Rams were champs again and that kid was now 12 and he got pumped watching the Ram helmet travel to the top of the game.  Then there was a long pause and 49 years later he was 61 and the Rams were once more the best team in football.  Now that dude is 80 years old and although he doesn't feel 80 he picks up the sports section of the Cleveland Gazette (?) and sees the Ram helmet getting ready to play in the 53 Super Bowl.

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT GUY IS ROOTING FOR THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS?

I DON'T THINK SO

And for you....the St. Louis football fan, I simply say.....hey the Rams didn't start in St. Louis and they didn't start in Los Angeles but currently they get their mail in Los Angeles and they still wear the Ram Helmet.

GET OVER IT.

I was 5 years old when they won their last championship in LA but I loved watching them win the Super Bowl while representing your great city.  And mark my words St. Louis is one of the great sports cities in America and that is mainly due to the storied baseball franchise known as the St. Louis Cardinals.

And yes I have numerous relatives in your area and yes I am sure most of them are saying they don't care about the Rams anymore but please note that when they were the Greatest Show on Turf there were young people who were just getting interested in football.  Imagine all the St. Louis 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 year old kids who loved the Rams.  Yes they might be disappointed that the Rams left and went back to LA but there is a deep affection that remains in there hearts for that Ram helmet.

When the Rams left LA in 1994 I was not really upset. There were other factors taking place in my life that outweigh sports by about a trillion pounds.

1994 is easily the worst year of my life and it has nothing to do with the Rams or the fact that there was no World Series that year.

February 3rd 1994 is the single worst day of my life....and next Sunday the Rams will be playing in the 53rd Super Bowl on the 25th Feb 3rd since 1994.  Every year February 3 arrives and I simply try to deal with the pain and the memory.

Football means so little when weighing the negative reality events that take place in our lives.  

But it does temporarily take one's mind off of the unwanted events.....unless that event falls on the exact day of the event.....but that's my problem, not yours.

As St. Louis football fans I'm not asking you to not be upset that OUR football team came home to LA.  I'm just asking you to look at the bigger picture and keep your eyes on the helmet.

I'm asking you to think of those young people in your city that grew up loving the Rams and then think of that old dude in Cleveland that once more can see that Ram helmet in the last game of the season....knowing that any moment could be his last season.

The New England Patriots are a legendary successful football team that will never be forgotten.

The Cleveland, The Los Angeles, The St. Louis, and again the Los Angles RAMS are also a legendary football team but for other reasons...mainly having to do with movement.

All it takes is multiple highly successful seasons and the Rams can move up that ladder of greatness.

Now one last thing......in Los Angeles we have so many more people than St. Louis and that means we have so many more 7,8,9,10 and 11 year old kids that are just starting to love football and guess what?

THEY ARE LOS ANGELES RAM FANS......and of course some are Charger fans 

BUT

winning a Super Bowl increases the fan base 

by

oodles

and

oodles

and

more oodles than you can even imagine.

Please simply put your anger toward management aside and 

watch the RAM PLAYERS on Feb 3 2019 try to win another Super Bowl.....this time representing Los Angeles, California......

and

still wearing

the

helmet.

Thanks

Los Angeles Ram fan with a ton of St.Louis blood.

Question and a history comparison

I will agree with our President that we have an immigration problem.  I don't agree with his WALL solution because America is not a place that tries to solve problems by building walls.

We build POSSIBILITIES and HOPE for people throughout the world by demonstrating that we respect life, liberty and above all
freedom...even though it is not mentioned.

The pursuit of happiness is also very important because "those guys" said so in the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." 

Pursuing happiness has probably turned out to be the most illusive quest that our forefathers (sorry foremothers) mentioned.....mainly because happiness is not only an illusive term but just when you get really happy someone,or something, drops an physical or spiritual anvil on your foot and you become instantly unhappy.   

Keep in mind that NEWS can be the heaviest anvil that any of us receive....and it doesn't always have to be news on a personal basis.  Of course when the news is personal and the information is not positive, then the possibility of finding happiness again any time soon becomes a very real challenge.

Observing our current President and his manner of behavior, both speaking and acting, is one of the major challenges many of us face at this time in American history.  

And I make no bones about it when I say this is a unique time in our 243 year history.

First off, I'M experiencing it and therefore it is extremely important.  Second off, YOU are experiencing it and therefore it becomes doubly important.  And then it goes on and on and on and on and on and 7 billion souls later we have the only time that matters in the history of OUR world.

THIS IS OUR TIME and we either let someone else determine the future for our children and their children 
or 
we make the situation 
better 
by 
doing better.

Is Donald J. Trump the best that America has to offer the world?

(flashback)
Did you think Richard M. Nixon was the best America had to offer in 1972?

If you are someone who voted in the 1972 election than you must have because that dickhead won every state except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.  I'm proud to say that he didn't win Marin County but sad to say he won 99 percent of all remaining counties in America.

If you are a younger person than you need to study that election and see what happens when the population simply refuses to pay attention.

I compare that election with the one coming in 2020 because we, as a collective, have had a prolonged opportunity to view the personality of our current elected President; similar to how long we viewed Tricky Dick.  (As Vice-President from 1952-1960 and then President from 1968. In 1962, after losing the Governor's race in California, he was completely written off and yet like the phoenix he reappeared big time)

President Trump or "President Biff" as I like to call him, has been in the public eye for multiple decades and before 2016 most of the information regarding him was from a reality (sort of) TV show. 

Previously the news about him pertained to a new marriage or a bankruptcy involving either a casino or a business venture of his doing.

I'll repeat this one more time...

Is Donald J. Trump the best that America has to offer the world?

And trust me when I say our President has a major effect on the entire world because of what America has accomplished in 243 years.

WE ARE THE BAROMETER FOR PROSPERITY AND THAT ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS....AND IT DIDN'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.

How we handle the responsibility of being the actual leader of the free world is the real question of the day.

and yes I have to ask it one more time....

IS THAT GUY WITH THE 
FAKE HAIR COLOR 
AND 
FAKE TAN 
AND 
FAKE PERSONALITY 
THE
BEST
AMERICA HAS TO OFFER?

If you say yes then you really don't pay attention and you really don't give a shit about the future of America.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Remembering some stuff about 2018 and earlier and then it is today

I turned 21 in February of 1967.  For a long time I thought 1968 was the summer of love but I was wrong....even though I was in love during the summer of 1967 with a beautiful girl from Corona del Mar, California named Leslie.  I had been at San Jose State in the fall of 66 and spring of 67 but all I ever saw was pissed off students tipping over ROTC buses on campus. Things were getting intense across the bay at Berkeley but there was very few indications that massive displays of LOVE were about to break out.

The 1967 and 68 college football seasons were large because of Leslie and another small time player named O.J.Simpson.  (Whatever happened to that guy?)  Leslie was a Pi Phi at USC and in 1968 was runner up to the Homecoming Queen. Her escort to the dance was Al Cowlings (who later would be the primary escort for the other dude mentioned above) and O.J. probably saved me an ass whipping because I got a bit vocal and a tad jealous of how many times Mr. Cowlings was dancing with my babe and "The Juice" pulled me aside and told me to chill because Al would "kill" me.

I chilled.

For the last two years I have been amazed at how people continue to support the current President of the United States. Telling lies and making erroneous comments about multiple facets of daily life just doesn't seem to be a deal breaker with his "people".

I haven't chilled.

I pause and try to consider the worldwide important events of 2018 and tragedy (or something stupid our President did or said) always rises to the top of the list and I'm sure that can be blamed on the summers of 67,68 and 69. (huh?)
Therefore all one needs to do is focus on personal important events in order to find positive results.  Of course the people who had their personal lives shattered by tragedy are having a hard time remembering good times during the last year.

That's one reason I always recommend young people try to find a sports team to root for and if possible find one in each sport and then they will have year long points of diversion from the crap that takes place in a space known as "reality."

Reality can truly suck at times and when it sucks it usually happens without much warning....which always brings me back to one of my favorite quotes by Joseph Campbell.

Participate with joy in the sorrows of the world

it's hard to practice but if you stop and think about it you will see that it might be the only answer to assure that the world events don't kick our ass.

I also realize that one important method of dealing with the world situations 
is to simply not pay attention....but that ball does not bounce on my court......

.......and that brings me once more back our President....
and the reason.....

....I refuse to chill.

It is so hard to accept the reality he creates on a daily basis because like millions of other people I KNOW the guy is an idiot.  I also know because he's made a ton of money in his life that the people who support him don't think he's an idiot....and therein lies the rub.

How much was Nikola Tesla worth when he died?
How much was Gandhi worth when he died?
How much was Einstein worth when he died?
How much was Copernicus worth when he died?
How much was Leonhard Euler worth when he died?
How much was Martin Luther King worth when he died?
How much was Jesus worth when he died?
How much was Elvis worth....oh wait he's still alive...............

How many bankruptcies has Donald J. Trump been involved in?

Should he be respected because of the money he's made?

Is that the most important barometer of how we judge human behavior in the 21st Century?

THE MAN CAN'T FINISH A SENTENCE WITHOUT READING.....

The truth is 
the United States of America has allowed an idiot to run our country and he's doing everything possible to prove this statement correct.

HE'S F**KING UP THE ENVIRONMENT
HE'S F**KING UP FOREIGN RELATIONSHIPS
HE'S F**KING UP TRADE AGREEMENTS

HE'S F**KING UP THE BASIC FABRIC OF WHAT                               AMERICA STANDS FOR

THE ONLY THING HE SEEMS TO BE DOING IS MAKING OUR MILITARY STRONGER THAN IT WAS
AND
IT
WAS ALREADY
THE STRONGEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD
BY
LEAPS
AND
BOUNDS

People that listen to him and support him do not research anything...all they do is listen to him and follow the yellow brick road to 
TrumpOZ.

There will be no chillin on my part in 2019 until the idiot
has moved along....and then we will have to figure out how to
deal
with
Pence....which might be harder because he's an actual politician......

So I stop and reconsider the summers of 68,69,70,71 and 72 which were MY summers of love and I remember how we approached a really really really weird leader by the name of Tricky Dick Nixon.  I'm pretty sure we took it to the streets and then created incredible music and then danced and danced and danced.

Of course not everyone is a good dancer so there was the other types who were busy doing their math homework and figuring out how to operate under a new system.....and yes
a
new
operating
system
was
invented......and we became
connected

And now we are all connected and yet we don't talk to each other anymore except through machines just like the one you are staring at right this very minute.

My NETWORK moment......

GET OFF THIS MACHINE.....DON'T PICK UP YOUR SMART PHONE....DON'T READ THE TWEETS OF AN IDIOT 
AND 
MOST OF ALL
FIND
A
TEAM
TO ROOT FOR DURING THE NFL PAYOFFS
AND
WATCH THE GAMES WITH FRIENDS AND START YOUR NEW YEAR
WITH
LAUGHTER AND HOLLERING AND 
AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU WILL KNOW
EXACTLY
WHO WON AND WHO LOST
and since your team is probably out of the playoffs
why
not
root
for
the
RAMS?

Let's hope 2019 is less Tweets and more 
love just like those summer's we almost remember.

Imagine if Viagra had existed in those days?
America's population would be 500 million instead of 325


Michael Timothy McAlevey