The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and play their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division.
The franchise began in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The team was founded by Ohio attorney Homer Marshman and player-coach Damon Wetzel, a former Ohio State star who also played briefly for the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Pirates. The team's name choice - which sounds like it might be a team from a mountainous location rather than Cleveland - was rather arbitrary. Wetzel, who served as general manager, selected the "Rams", because his favorite college football team was the Fordham Rams from Fordham University, though Marshman also liked the name choice.
That team was part of the newly formed American Football League and finished the 1936 regular season in second place behind the league champion Boston Shamrocks.
After winning the 1945 NFL Championship Game, the franchise moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946, making way for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference, and becoming the only NFL championship team to play the following season in another city.
The team made another move after the 1994 NFL season, leaving California and relocating in St. Louis, Missouri.
Five seasons after relocating, the team won Super Bowl XXXIV in a 23–16 victory over the Tennessee Titans. They appeared again in Super Bowl XXXVI, where they lost 20–17 to the New England Patriots.
At the end of the 2015 NFL season, the team filed notice with the NFL of its intent to move yet again. pursue a relocation back to Los Angeles. The move was approved by owners, and in January 2016 the Rams returned to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season.
The Rams franchise has won three NFL championships and is the only franchise to win championships while representing three different cities (Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951, and St. Louis in 1999).
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