Great post mt
|
|
Quote
mtramfan
When I was a kid I remember seeing Tank Younger and Deacon Dan Towler in the same Ram backfield. One of them - forget who, but think it might have been Towler, bent the goalpost on a goal-line plunge. They were called the Baby Elephant backfield.
Not sure how Towler got his nickname; he was the first Deacon on the Rams.
And then there was every twelve-year-old kid's childhood hero on that day: Crazylegs Hirsch. He's already been mentioned several times on this thread, but the origin of his nickname hasn't He was born with a deformed foot that he learned to swing to the side when he ran (the clip below shows one run - Hirsch running away from the camera as a youngster) that gave him the nickname. The film about his life was an inspiration for us kids to deal with adversity, work hard, do our best, and succeed. The world was different, then.
Another Ramsa player's nickname that may not have made the list due to his tragic end, Big Daddy Lipscomb.
"Tank" is a fantastic nickname! I didn't know about the "Baby Elephant" backfield either. Thanks for teaching me!
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
