The US Football History of Los Angeles Rams Los Angeles Times Edition Book

In terms of NFL records, the Rams are the only franchise to have won championships representing three different cities. They fought a tight battle against Washington to win the NFL Championship in 1945, their last achievement before moving to Los Angeles. The team then reached the NFL Championship game in their fourth year in California. The team founded to replace them in Cleveland after their move, the Browns, were the Rams’ opponents in the Championship game the following season. The Browns emerged victorious in their inaugural NFL season, but the Rams would defeat them a year later to win their second NFL championship. 1995 saw the team move to St. Louis, winning their first-ever Lombardi Trophy four years later after a 23-16 triumph against the Tennessee Titans.

Under the new leadership of Sean McVay, when the team moved back to Los Angeles they recorded a fantastic 2018/19 campaign which resulted in a narrow loss to “The Evil Empire”, the New England Patriots, in the Super Bowl.

Relive these moments through authentic newspaper reports, as they appeared at the time, from the Los Angeles Times.

Archivist insight: We reproduce these newspaper articles from scan archives. In some cases, there’ll be blemishes and the reproduction quality might not be as clear or precise as it was in the original paper.