The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division.
The SoFi Stadium in Inglewood is home to both the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, and both teams use the venue for their home games. The team, originally known as the Cleveland Rams and based in Cleveland, Ohio, was established in 1936.
The team relocated to Los Angeles after winning the National Football League Championship Game in 1945, making way for Paul Brown to found the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. This made the franchise the only NFL championship team to play the following season in a different city after winning the title.
Before moving into the newly renovated Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, California in 1980, the club called the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, home for its games until that year.
The Rams competed in their first Super Bowl at the conclusion of the 1979 NFL season, but they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers by a score of 31–19 in Super Bowl XIV.
What was the Rams old name?
The Rams team was originally established in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams and competed in the brief second American Football League before transitioning to the National Football League the following season.
In 1946, the headquarters of the franchise was relocated to Los Angeles. After moving to St. Louis in 1994 and becoming known as the St. Louis Rams, the Rams franchise remained in the metropolitan region until that year.