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The St. Louis Rams, a professional American football team is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), the team has won two NFL Championships and one Super Bowl.The Rams began playing in Cleveland in 1937 Ohio as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the 1936-37 American Football League.The Rams reached the Super Bowl with an explosive offense (nicknamed "The Greatest Show on Turf") led by league MVP Kurt Warner and Offensive Player of the Year Marshall Faulk on 1999 and 2001.

The Rams were noted for a colorful celebration conducted by their offensive players in the end zone after scoring a touchdown. The celebration, known as the "Bob and Weave," was eventually banned by the commissioner's office, along with all other "prolonged and premeditated" displays of this sort. St. Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl, on the heels of a 1999 regular season which saw them win 13 out of 16 games. Rams finished 10-6 in the 2000 regular season losing the National Football Conference's Western Division title on tie-breakers to the New Orleans Saints. The Rams went on to lose to the Saints in the first round of the playoffs, for which they did qualify as a wild card. In 2001, the Rams went 14-2 and again reached the Super Bowl.

Rams disappointed with a 7-9 final record in 2002 but uncovered a future superstar in the person of Marc Bulger, who filled in for injured quarterback Kurt Warner and won every game in which he both started and finished. The 2003 Rams had a regular-season record of 12-4 and won their division once again, but lost to the Carolina Panthers in the second round of the playoffs after having earned a bye in the first round. Warner was released by the Rams in June 2004 and signed a free agent contract with the New York Giants, leaving the starting quarterback job to Bulger. Rams became the first team in NFL history without a winning record in the regular season to win a playoff game on January 2005.

The Rams front office dysfunction had traveled from California to Missouri. Team President John Shaw remained in Los Angeles after the re-location which enabled President of Football Operations Jay Zygmunt and former head coach Mike Martz to carve out rival fiefdoms within the Rams front office. The Rams became the first professional American football team to have some sort of logo on their helmets. Ever since halfback Fred Gehrke painted ram horns on the team's helmets in 1948, the logo has become the club's trademark.