From approximately 1971 until 1985, I had one or more tickets to L.A. Rams preseason, regular season and post season games, including three Super Bowls.
The two photographs above were developed in August 1977, so this was likely during a preseason game when Chuck Knox was the coach of the L.A. Rams. In addition, besides buying a pair of tickets of all games in the 1971 and 1972 football seasons, I then bought a season ticket from 1973 forward. It was in the West end zone of the coliseum, not far from where we are photographed above.
Tommy Prothro was the Rams head coach in 1971 and 1972, and he posted very poor records in those two seasons after being a successful college coach at UCLA and Oregon State before that.
In 1973, before I left from Air Force OTS in Lackland, TX, Chuck Knox, an assistant coach for Detroit, was hired to replace Prothro.
Throughout the 1970's, the Rams were a very successful franchise, though they never got to the Super Bowl under Coach Knox. They often had one of the best, if not the best, record in the NFL; but Coach Knox never could get them any further than NFC championship games where he typically lost to either Minnesota or Dallas.
By the end of the decade, the Rams finally made the Super Bowl under former assistant coach Ray Malavasi, leading the champion Pittsburgh Steelers at the start of the 4th quarter, on January 20, 1980.
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