Sorry for your experience Tim: As you know Barb and I go way back as far as Ram fans and season tickets. She less than me. We had season tickets at both the Coliseum and Anaheim. The "home" hostile crowd era began with the 49ers in Anaheim and then it picked up with other "big name" teams like the Steelers, Packers, Giants, and later the Patriots. Even when the Rams won games it was not a pleasant experience. As a result we gave up buying season tickets long before the move to St. Louis. And ironically, the "best" crowds -in terms of just "good people" around you-no matter who they were rooting for-were in St. Louis when we would fly back to see the Rams. Never, anything like what you and your daughter experienced last Sunday.
Since I go all the way back to the late 40s and 50s I can honestly say I never experienced any hostile environment attending games at the Coliseum in those days. However, in those days the crowd was a lot older than today and at many games a suit, tie, and hat was in order. Personally, I think some of it is that the tv media has over the years portrayed football as the ultimate machismo sport. Just look at how many big truck adds there are during the games. It's analogous to the erectile dysfunction adds you find all over-ironically- sports talk radio-maybe more factual than ironic. Money knows where it can be spent (LOL)
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