Los Angeles Rams

Los Angeles Rams
Current season
Established February 12, 1937 (1937-02-12)[1][2]
First season: 1937
Play in SoFi Stadium
Inglewood, California
Headquartered in Agoura Hills, California[3]
Los Angeles Rams logo
Los Angeles Rams logo
Los Angeles Rams wordmark
Los Angeles Rams wordmark
LogoWordmark
League/conference affiliations

American Football League (1936)
National Football League (1937–present)

Current uniform
Team colorsRoyal blue, sol[4][5][6]
   
MascotRampage
Personnel
Owner(s)Stan Kroenke[7][8]
ChairmanStan Kroenke
CEOStan Kroenke
PresidentKevin Demoff
General managerLes Snead
Head coachSean McVay
Team history
  • Cleveland Rams (1936–1942, 1944–1945)
  • Suspended operations (1943)
  • Los Angeles Rams (1946–1994, 2016–present)
  • St. Louis Rams (1995–2015)
Team nicknames
Championships
League championships (4)
Conference championships (8)
Division championships (18)
Playoff appearances (32)
Home fields

The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play their home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which they share with the Los Angeles Chargers.

The franchise was founded in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams in Cleveland, Ohio. The franchise won the 1945 NFL Championship Game, then moved to Los Angeles in 1946, making way for Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference and becoming the only NFL championship team to play the following season in another city. The club played its home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum until 1980, when it moved into a reconstructed Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, California. The Rams made their first Super Bowl appearance at the end of the 1979 NFL season, losing Super Bowl XIV to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31–19.

After the 1994 NFL season, the Rams left southern California and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, becoming the St. Louis Rams. Five seasons later, the team defeated the Tennessee Titans to win Super Bowl XXXIV, 23–16. The club then lost Super Bowl XXXVI, 20–17, to the New England Patriots. After the 2015 NFL season, the team sought and received approval from the other owners to move back to Los Angeles in time for the 2016 NFL season. The Rams appeared in Super Bowl LIII but lost to the Patriots, 13–3.[13][14] Three years later, the Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23–20 to win Super Bowl LVI, becoming the second NFL team to win the Super Bowl in its home stadium.[15]

The club is the only NFL franchise to win championships representing three different cities: Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951 and 2021, and St. Louis in 1999.

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  8. ^ "E. Stanley Kroenke". TheRams.com. NFL Enterprises. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  9. ^ "A Rams fan holds up a sign for the Mob Squad during an NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams".
  10. ^ "#MobSquad, it's go time: time to Go Metro to the Rams home opener".
  11. ^ "Mob Squad Fan Photos vs. Bills".
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  13. ^ Wesseling, Chris (February 3, 2019). "Patriots defeat Rams 13-3 in Super Bowl LIII". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises. Archived from the original on June 23, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  14. ^ Plaschke, Bill (January 20, 2019). "Rams have L.A. back in Super Bowl after breathtaking win over Saints". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  15. ^ Around the NFL staff (February 14, 2022). "NFL community, celebrities react to Rams' 23-20 win over Bengals in Super Bowl LVI". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises. Retrieved March 21, 2022.