OILERS vs Rams, Super Bowl XIV
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2026 2:30 pm
I'm not just saying this because I'm a Steeler-fan, but I'm a believer in that had the Renfro catch been called a TD - score now tied at 20 apiece - the 'Burgh would have still found a way to Pasadena.
But let's just say the catch is called a TD and the ball bounces enough times Houston's way and they actually..."kick the SOB in"...how does a Bud Adams/Georgia Frontiere Super Bowl - twenty years earlier- unfold?
Of course both teams met the year before. A famous (or infamous) highlight reel of #34 himself, head-into-chest, knocking an otherwise stout multi-All Pro linebacker backwards. Don't let it fool you. The Rams ended up winning that game, 10-6, in the Astrodome.
Houston was a better team in '79, and the Rams...once the 5-6 start was out of the way (I don't know about you all) I feel that squad going into the playoffs with Ferragamo and Tyler were better as well as more-dynamic than the 12-4 top-seed '78 squad who was 7-1 vs winning teams (Steelers & Cowboys both being their victims).
I think it turns out to be a good game, but I'll take the Rams. If a more-dimensional team like Pittsburgh had to pull all stops to finally shake off the Rams in the end, then how does a team of less dimension pull it off in the end? Yes, plenty of reason for Rams giving the 'Burgh all they could handle was they matching up well against them in the first place; and several from their coaching staff, starting with Bud Carson, knew a thing or two about them going in. But the simple less-dimensional dynamic of the Oilers (basically just focus on Campbell) would be a lesser task for LA.
I've opined this a couple times before...I think if San Diego makes it to Pasadena, the Rams get their regular season revenge thus hoist up the Vince! IMO, the best '70s Rams squad, most-dynamic, most SB-capable, was that very squad at the end of the '79 campaign itself going into the playoffs. Such THICK competition in the '70s, so maybe Vince & Wendell don't win LA one had both played together all through the decade. But at least there's a significant better chance. Maybe if not a Lombardi itself, maybe at least one SB appearance!
But let's just say the catch is called a TD and the ball bounces enough times Houston's way and they actually..."kick the SOB in"...how does a Bud Adams/Georgia Frontiere Super Bowl - twenty years earlier- unfold?
Of course both teams met the year before. A famous (or infamous) highlight reel of #34 himself, head-into-chest, knocking an otherwise stout multi-All Pro linebacker backwards. Don't let it fool you. The Rams ended up winning that game, 10-6, in the Astrodome.
Houston was a better team in '79, and the Rams...once the 5-6 start was out of the way (I don't know about you all) I feel that squad going into the playoffs with Ferragamo and Tyler were better as well as more-dynamic than the 12-4 top-seed '78 squad who was 7-1 vs winning teams (Steelers & Cowboys both being their victims).
I think it turns out to be a good game, but I'll take the Rams. If a more-dimensional team like Pittsburgh had to pull all stops to finally shake off the Rams in the end, then how does a team of less dimension pull it off in the end? Yes, plenty of reason for Rams giving the 'Burgh all they could handle was they matching up well against them in the first place; and several from their coaching staff, starting with Bud Carson, knew a thing or two about them going in. But the simple less-dimensional dynamic of the Oilers (basically just focus on Campbell) would be a lesser task for LA.
I've opined this a couple times before...I think if San Diego makes it to Pasadena, the Rams get their regular season revenge thus hoist up the Vince! IMO, the best '70s Rams squad, most-dynamic, most SB-capable, was that very squad at the end of the '79 campaign itself going into the playoffs. Such THICK competition in the '70s, so maybe Vince & Wendell don't win LA one had both played together all through the decade. But at least there's a significant better chance. Maybe if not a Lombardi itself, maybe at least one SB appearance!