Vermeil to be added to Ring of Honor
The Rams will add Dick Vermeil to the Ring of Honor at the Edward Jones Dome during a halftime ceremony Nov. 2, when the Arizona Cardinals are in town.
Vermeil took over as the Rams’ head coach in 1997, and his first two teams went 5-11 and 4-12. Then in 1999, the “Greatest Show on Turf” opened for business. The Rams went 13-3 during the regular season, en route to a 23-16 victory over Tennessee in Super Bowl XXXIV. Vermeil retired after that season, although he returned to the NFL in 2001 as coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. He left after the ‘05 season.
“Dick Vermeil was a tremendous coach and is an even better person who provided so much to the city of St. Louis and the Rams organization,” team owner Chip Rosenbloom said in a statement. “We are thrilled to celebrate a man who was a great source of pride and happiness for our mom and her beloved Rams fans.”
Vermeil, who will turn 72 on Oct. 30, lives with his wife, Carol, on their farm outside Philadelphia.
All for now . . .
We can stop calling it the Greatest Show on Turf when they stop calling Lambaeu Field “the frozen tundra” I don’t see caribou running around or lichen growing on their field.
Chris Berman coined the phrase greatest show on earth…I liked much better
Chris Berman of espn coined the original phrase of Greatest show on Earth…
Good move on the Rams part. I don’t care what you want to call it, but man, were those three years (1999, 2000, 2001) the greatest or what. I hope there will be more great years for thr Rams, but those three years were awesome. Warner, Faulk, Bruce, Holt, Prowel, Hakeem, Horn, they were the best. God I wish they didnt give up on Kurt so fast. I pull for him everytime I watch him. He is, and will always be a class act. Those guys were all for the most part, a class act. No T.O. or Ocho Cinco, no Pacman, no wife beatings, no bashing of other players or owners, or even coaches, just great guys. Call it what you want, but we had the best ever for those three years. Thanks guys, it was worth the wait & pain since 1969.
If DV, Warner Faulk, Holt belong based on 99-01, doesn’t Martz?
Martz was as instrumental as anyone for that run. You can debate whether Martz deteriorated in his later years as coach. But if you put up guys like Warner who did it only from 99-01 you should include Mad Mike.
Someone who doesn’t belong is Georgia. Seemed to be a nice lady from afar. But she’s there b/c her kids control the ring of fame. Tacky show of money and power to put her up there. Georgia will never be considered among the great owners and no one would ever seriously nominate for the NFL Hall (as others owners like Rooney who were HOF owners in their steward and league contributions).
No, Chris Berman did not “coin” that term. It has always belonged to the Circus, as a poster described. Berman, as he does so often, merely tried to co-opt the term to describe the Rams.
Mike Jones….whatever happened to the guy who made the game saving tackle
His name should be retired….was it him to go on to a succesful music career…”Mike Jones Ya’ll”
mstrkb, I remember that. The Saint Louis Rams offense, in that era, was called the “Greatest Show on Earth”, because Warner, Faulk, Bruce, Holt and Hakim were called the “Warner Brothers”.
I believe there was someone in Tampa Bay that sarcastically tabbed it as “The Greatest Show on Turf”, basically saying that that offense was ONLY great on artificial turf, rather than real grass, which they had in Tampa Bay.
I believe the person that said that was, Warren Sapp.