The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The franchise began in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams, based in Cleveland, Ohio. The club relocated to Los Angeles in 1946 and won three NFL championships. The Rams left southern California and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, following the 1994 NFL season. The team returned to the city for the 2016 NFL season and appeared in Super Bowl LIII. They are the only NFL franchise to win championships representing three cities.
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The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The franchise began in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams, based in Cleveland, Ohio. The club relocated to Los Angeles in 1946 and won three NFL championships. The Rams left southern California and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, following the 1994 NFL season. The team returned to the city for the 2016 NFL season and appeared in Super Bowl LIII. They filed notice with the NFL of their intent to relocate back to LA at the end of the 2015 NFL season, and the move was approved in January 2016. They play their home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which they share with the L.A. Chargers. They are a member of the National Football Conference West division of the American Football League (AFL) The Rams are the only NFL franchise to win championships representing three cities. The club has won three Super Bowls, and is the only team to have won the Super Bowl in both New England and Los Angeles. They have also won the NFL Championship in 1945, and Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2006. They also won Super Bowl XIV in 1979, but lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31–19 in the final game of the season. They were the fourth team in a string of short-lived teams based in Ohio, after the Cleveland Tigers, Cleveland Bulldogs, and Cleveland Indians. The Cleveland Rams were founded in 1936 by Ohio attorney Homer Marshman and player-coach Damon Wetzel, a former Ohio State star who also played briefly for the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Pirates.
They finished the 1936 regular season in second place with a 5–2–2 record, trailing only the 8–3 record of league champion Boston Shamrocks. In June 1941, the Rams were bought by Dan Reeves and Fred Levy Jr. Reeves, an heir to his family’s grocery-chain business that had been purchased by Safeway, used some of his inheritance to buy his share of the team. He threatened to end the NFL and get out of the professional football business altogether unless the team was permitted to move. A settlement was reached and Reeves was allowed to move the then-103,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1946. In the same year, the club won its first NFL Championship with a 15–14 victory over the Washington Redskins on December 16. The next season, the NFL changed rules to prevent this result from ever happening again; instead, it would merely result in an incomplete pass. In 1945, the team achieved a 9–1 record and win first NFL championship by a great margin by a safety field victory. They then moved to Anaheim Stadium in 1980, where they played in a reconstructed Anaheim Stadium until moving again in 1994. In 2000, they moved to the Coliseum before moving to a new stadium in Orange County, California in 1980. In 2001, they won the NFC West Division and went on to win the NFC Divisional Championship. In 2002, they were the first team in the NFL to do so twice in the same season.
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