stephenj wrote:

.. when it comes to making the playoffs by the skin of our teeth. I can
remember at least 5 years when going into the last game of the season,
our chances of getting in were less than 50-50, and yet we got in:

1983: cut and dried: we played the saints in new orleans. we were both
8-7 and the winner would get a wild-card but the loser wouldn't.

we won 26-24 on a last second, 46 yard fg.

1988: we were 9-6 but had to beat the division champ montana/walsh 49ers
in san francisco, *and* we needed the 7-7-1 Jets to upset Parcell's 10-5
Giants (if we were both 10-6, we'd win the tb over the giants because we
beat them earlier in the year).

we played a great game and crushed the niners 38-16, while the Giants
were upset by the Jets, 27-21. rams make playoffs.

1989: this was a brutal year in the NFC, as two 10-6 teams failed to
make the playoffs. the Rams would have been one of them had we not
beaten New England (on the road), 24-20 on a last minute touchdown. the
11-5 rams would have lost out to green bay on tiebreakers had we lost
the game.

Don't tell anybody...but I'm a Deadskin fan this week.

GO RAMS!!

Jim in SE VA

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David Emerling wrote:

it's almost always better to be lucky than good.

Good memories and analysis of "lucky" Ram playoff teams.

I have one more: 1984. Had my Big Red defeated Washington on the last
weekend of the season (we came infinitely close, still my favorite NFL
game ever other than Super Bowl XXXIV), Big Red would have won the NFC
East at 10-6. The Redskins would have gotten the first wildcard at
10-6. The Rams finished 10-6 that year (second in their division to
the 15-1 Niners), and would have still gotten in if both Dallas and NY
Giants had lost to go 9-7, but the Rams would have been out of it had
the 3rd place NFC East team won to go 10-6. IIRC Rams got in after
Dallas choked on Monday night to end the regular season at 9-7.

Terry Lomax wrote:

thanks - i remember us being 10-6 that year but not that we needed some
help to make the playoffs. iirc, the rams hosted the giants in the WC
game and lost.

btw, i remember watching that cards-skins game. incredible game in rfk
stadium, where the gibbskins were so tough to beat back then.