BL> The Rams I remember were a great team...and I'm old enough to remember
 BL> those great teams ;-) I used to really respect the OLD Oakland Raiders
 BL> when Madden was the coach and they were led by either Snake Stabler
 BL> and before that by Darrell Lamonica, but what I really loved about
 BL> those Raiders was the way that they played DEFENSE...and they had the
 BL> hardest hitters that there ever have been (some might say they played
 BL> Dirty, but I would call it hard nosed)... 
I used to (when I was really young and didn't realize that you
couldn't love both the Rams and the Raiders - which doesn't make
much sense, since it's not like they were both in LA at that point)
be a big Raider fan.  Kenny Stabler rocked.  Then I grew up, I
guess.  I'm not a big Raider fan at the moment, largely because of
the perpetu-hype that surrounds them.  Most of the gangsta-hype just
turns me off to whatever product they are selling.
Bob
... History repeats itself. That's what's wrong with history.
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