St. Louis whips the Cranberry & Cream

[SaintLouisBlues]

The Big Red, The Gridbirds, The Football Cardinals (instead of the baseball Cardinals) The Cranberry & Cream, all nicknames for the team I grew up rooting for. The birthright of the utterly incompetent Bill Bidwill, this franchise has the worst winning percentage of any professional sports team over the last half century.

He was by far the most unpopular St. Louisan even before threatening he'd leave town unless he got a new tax-payer subsidized stadium. Most people said 'don't let the door hit you on the way out'. So Bidwill took his ball and moved to the desert.

In the end, St. Louis power brokers decided bad football was better than no football and bribed another bad owner to move their bad team to St. Louis.

Who'd have thought the once woeful Rams would be the first team to score 500 points three years in a row, appearing in two of the last four Super Bowls, winning one?

Revenge is sweet as now the Cardinals have been placed in the Rams division. As long as Bidwill is in charge the Rams have a great chance of beating him twice a year.

Bill Bidwill: Worst owner EVER.

BTW: The Cranberry & Cream is a somewhat derogatory nickname derived from the team colors.

[Swede]

1. I still cheer for the Cards

I know, I know.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. I still cheer for the Rams

Even though the bad owner moved them to St. Louis, and away from my home in Los Angeles.

But Georgia is better than a lot of owners, now that she's learned to keep her distance from day to day operations.

[sistersofmercy]

3. Hey do you remember the Bidwell send off?

On channel 5 evening news, they had a class of Kindergarteners singing, "Bye Bye Bidwell. Bye Bye Bidwell!" Priceless!

[SaintLouisBlues]

4. That sums up the Bidwill experience

This guy could screw up a free lunch.

[Padraig18]

5. I'm a baseball Cardinals' fan

:)

[scarlet_owl]

6. Me too!

And I'm stuck here in Cubs country.:(