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11/1/09 Rams vs. Lions

Hello Rams Fans.  Folks we’re going to have to apologize right up front for this review.  Bloomer Bret’s mother passed away on Wednesday and so his heart just wasn’t into reviewing this game.  It was more about being with family and friends and remembering.

The Rams would be away this week in the Motor City to take on the lowly (but not as low as the Rams) Lions who had actually been favored.  Due to the death of his mother, Bret would watch the game with his sister Barbara, her son Sean, her fiancé Dave, her best friend Cindy and of course his brother-in-law Tom and friend Keith.  While it was an occasion that brought so many back in town having just been here a few weeks prior, it was enjoyable that they all came back.  We laughed at the game, at each other, at stories of “Mom” and had a great time with good food, good drink and good cheer.  Thank you Bruno’s American Grill and Pub.

11-1-09

Bret together with his sister Barb, her best friend Cindy, her fiance Dave, son Sean and the Keithster have a great time watching the Rams finally win a game

Apologies to Lisa for having to put up with nephew Sean’s ranting on and on about her Green Bay Packers’ shirt.  Remember folks the nephew is a Vikings fan and he’s a NEPHEW ok?  The sister’s kid.  Naturally, he had to wear his Vikings jersey and with the Packers and Vikings playing an afternoon game, Lisa and Sean would wind up sparring all day. <sigh>  Kids now days, always fighting, whining, crying or complaining about something.  We digress.

RAMS vs. LIONS

Folks the defense in this game played the entire game with the intensity they’ve been playing with lately for three quarters.  The difference?  Steven “put your head down” Jackson gave them some breathing spells.  We’ll get back to that.  The defense played very well although many would say “yeah but they were playing the Lions”.  Hey folks, this is the NFL and just look at the records of the vast majority of teams this year.  There is a lot of parity and that saying always holds true, “on any given Sunday”.  The defense had one bad miscue when Butler intercepted a pass in the end zone and brought it out and then wandered back in and got tackled for a safety.  That was pretty stupid.

The offense was pretty much its usual self, poor passing, dropped passes, poor blocking, Bulger getting sacked, etc.  Bulger was less than stellar completing 17 of 35 passes, although again, he can’t throw them and catch them too.  But maybe if he was a little bit more accurate?  The Rams actually looked like they didn’t necessarily care about winning, at least from where we were sitting anyway.  Well perhaps many of them but one guy came to play today.

Rams Fans we have said so many times on this site that if Jackson would just run North and South, he’d be soooo much better.  Well today Jackson again didn’t run North and South.  He just ran North.  Today he looked like The Train.  He powered forward and just flat ran over anybody in front of him, including the officiating crew.  He broke through blocks, carried a half dozen guys on him and still motored North.  Today Steven Jackson looked like the player coaching, owners and fans have hoped he would be.

When this young man really realizes he is not a Marshall Faulk or a Gayle Sayers and that he’s a younger, quicker version of an Earl Campbell, he’ll start leading the league every year in yards.  Today Jackson wasn’t trying to sidestep and finesse his way forward.  Today it was like he shouted “hey, I’m getting the ball and I’m coming right at ya, stop me if you can” and he went through Detroit’s line like a power bowling ball through pins.

 Jackson would wind up with 149 yards rushing and one touchdown.  The Rams defense would continue to keep Detroit stymied getting the long rest periods thanks to Jackson and the Rams would end up winning 17-10.  Losing streak over.  Skunk erased.  Now they just need to prevent from starting another one.  They go into a bye week and then face the undefeated Saints.  Perhaps the Saints will look past the Rams and get a bite in the butt, who knows.  Stranger things have happened and the Rams have finally tasted victory.  Jackson is sure to be after another big game to prove it wasn’t a fluke.  However the Saints will probably key on Jackson and make Bulger beat him with his weak arm.  We’ll just have to wait and see.

 That’s it Rams Fans.  Have a wonderful week, spend some time with your loved ones because any one of us can be gone in the blink of an eye.  Be safe out there and as always, watch your top knot.  (We’re still waiting for just one individual to respond with the line that comes after that).

Mom

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MARY ANN DE ROUSSE

9/17/1930 – 10/28/2009

Folks it was another sad day in the life this week.  My mother Mary Ann De Rousse (Ryan) passed away after contending with a year of Pulmonary Hypertension.  Three weeks after the passing of my father, my mother wound up in the hospital during which the prognosis was made.  There is no cure and there is no treatment.  My mom was given six months maximum.  Well she fooled them.  She wasn’t ready to go and quite frankly said “I’ll go when I’m ready” and after thirteen months, she decided everything was right in her life and she could let go.

 As beautiful as my mother was on the outside in her day, she was three times as beautiful on the inside.  She had a huge heart.  Being of mainly Irish genes she had a temper but in my fifty-eight years of being her son, I only saw it once and it was very short lived at that.  She just didn’t have it in her to be mad.  She raised me and my two sisters and did a damned fine job, while our dad worked all over the nation.  Mom was always there.  She loved music and would rather listen to it than the television as we grew up.  To this day I still know by heart the lyrics to Wolverton’s Mountain, Miller’s Cave, Big Iron, Big Bad John, Sixteen Tons and many others.  Mainly old style country songs.

She also loved sports and could probably teach a thing or two to whomever was managing the Cardinals, Big Red or later the Rams.  While she was predominantly a home town fan, she did have a soft spot in her heart for the Minnesota Vikings but not because her eldest daughter would spend most of life there.  No it was once again related to her love for music.  As we kids grew older, so did her appreciation of song and there were two particular songs that came out that tickled her fancy.  One was the Witch Doctor, “ooh eee ooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang…” and the other (perhaps by the same artist, I don’t recall), was the one eyed, one horned giant purple people eater.  Well at the time the Vikings had a defense of the caliber of the Steel Curtain or the Fearsome Foursome and after this song came out, they became known as the Purple People Eaters.  She had to root for them.

She was a wonderful cook and could prepare most anything whether it came from a store, a farm or the woods.  She made the best cookies and a better cream puff than any pastry chef alive.  She also loved to read and would go through a book non stop.  Fiction, non-fiction, how to, horror, comedy, it didn’t matter.  She enjoyed all the old movie classics but not just the love stories like the classic Gone With The Wind, she was also a big western and comedy fan.  I’d hate to count the number of times she enjoyed Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau in the Pink Panther.  She was a worldly wise and wonderful woman.

So long mom. Thanks for bringing me into the world and I’ll love and miss you always.

Hello Rams Fans.  The Rams would be back home in the dome today to take on Peyton Manning and his Colts.  That would mean that Bret would be where Bret generally is to watch the games, Bruno’s American Grill and Pub.  He would get a surprise visit from Anny who had stopped in after her two-hour, double intensity Olympic training, “no pictures please”.  Oops.

Anny tries to hide behind a bottle of hot sauce while trying to figure out what compels Bret to watch the Rams lose week after week

Anny tries to hide behind a bottle of hot sauce while trying to figure out what compels Bret to watch the Rams lose week after week

Not to worry Anny, nobody looks at the Bloomers’ website anymore (except for 262,001 Rams fans from all over the world).  Prior to the start of the game we had the customary breakfast pizza, one of Mark’s specialties.  Folks you need to stop in and try one of these puppies.  It’s not on the menu so you’ll have to order it special but it will be worth it.  To wash it down order one of those 72 oz. Bloody Marys that are on special as well.  After that it was Michelob time and a fine cigar and a great way to start out the afternoon.
 
Rams Vs. Colts

Well folks at least the morning was good.  Peyton Manning and the Colts are a tough team to beat when you have a good football team.  It’s pretty much an impossibility when you are of the Rams ilk.  Of course there is always the saying “on any given Sunday…”  Yeah well it wasn’t going to be this Sunday.  The Colts got the ball first, scored like they were playing against a little league team and they never looked back.

The defense would settle down for a while after letting the Colts go up 14-0 but it would all be for naught.  Typical Rams miscues, interceptions and dropped balls would plague the Rams all day.  “Hey Bloomers, what about Jackson going over 100 yards”?  Folks that was all allowed by the Colts and those started basically mid way through the third quarter when the Colts had a very comfortable lead.  They were basically letting Jackson run telling the Rams, “sure, go ahead and run, eat up the clock”.

Even allowing Jackson to run up and down the field, the Colts stopped the Rams on the rare occasion they got close.   The final score would be 42-6 Colts.  A few patrons asked Bret how he could sit and watch such a bunch of incapable misfits lose every Sunday.  Keith summed it up best by simply stating, “yes they’re bad but they’re still our team”.  That’s it folks.  They’re still the ST. LOUIS RAMS at least for the time being and we’ll still support them.

Folks we could break it down further but if you really want to know more, just read last week’s report and the one before that and the one before that, etc.  One thing we will say, as much as we state Bulger isn’t the guy and will never be the guy etc, he can’t throw and catch the ball.  The Colts receivers were catching balls with their fingertips.  Rams receivers couldn’t catch them with anything.

Lisa consoles Bret and Keith after they endure yet another loss by the Rams

Lisa consoles Bret and Keith after they endure yet another loss by the Rams

Next week the Rams travel to Detroit to take on the Lions.  What a snoozer that game will be.  Of every NFL game next week, it will surely have the lowest ratings from lack of viewing.  Oh well, have a good week Rams Fans and as always,“watch your top knot”.

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