Article:Los Angeles Rams from then to the end.

''When the Rams moved to Los Angeles in the 40's after the second world war, there was a lot of interest in professional football out here especially when it was Bob Waterfield UCLA boy quarterbacking the team and later on SC and Jon Arnett were playing for them. They made alot of mistakes in trades and drafts but finally George came along and returned the team to greatness that they had with Waterfield and Crazylegs. George bought back the attitude of toughness that had been missing for years under the old coaches and wanted tough players and experienced players to be his main part of the team. The real group of players that took the NFL in Los Angeles to its greatest heights was the Rams front four fearsome foursome of Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen and David Deacon Jones. These 4 players not only took the NFL to its greatest TV and Radio heights but also it helped the NFL go upwards as well. Everyone in Los Angeles was listening to them on the radio and everyone hoped that they would be on TV as well, but in those days whose knows who put what teams on what in regards to television. The Fearsome Foursome were everywhere and not just in Los Angeles. People all over the country expressed interest in the NFL were not only impressed with the famous group but teams that they played use to plan a kinds of new tricks to try and stop the legendary 4 from doing what they did better than most of the other front four. With regards to the Purple people eaters in Minnesota, everyone was afraid of having to stop these 4. Jones was without a doubt the greatest defensive end in NFL history. They didn't keep stats on QB sacks but he use to have 5,6.,7,8 a game and it wasn't unusual for him to tackle the QB two or three times in a row. He was only credited with about a third of what he actually had and that is reported by him but I saw most of his games in person and on the television and there were games that he may have have an many as 8 or 9 sacks. He was the leader of the defense without question but Merlin Olsen was without peers as a defensive tackle. His nickname was cokebox because he looked like a cokebox with a head in the middle. Nobody from Brown to Sayers ever ran up the middle against Olsen and Grier. At the time Rosey Grier was one of largest players in the NFL if he wasn't the first 300 pounder than he was the first to really do amazing things on the field. During one of Brown great seasons before retiring, he was running wild on the Rams and after a rather long run and being tackled by Grier down field, Brown got up jumping around and padded Rosey on the butt and made some kind of a comment about how easy it was to run and them today. If you knew Rosey he knew that when he returned to the huddle he took all his friends about the comment. Well, as  it would come to pass from then on, Mr. Brown got nothing from then on and for the rest of his career. In the first of his two earlier long runs, Grier was being double team by the guard and tackle and could really get at Brown coming around the corner, but the need time Brown got the ball, Rosey was again being double team, but seeing Brown making the move inside Grier reached over the double team block and completely clothlined Brown running around the blocks. He hit Brown so hard with his frontarm that it flipped him back on his back on the ground like a ragdoll. As Grier walked backed to the huddle he reach over to a rising Jim Brown and patted him on the head like a father does to a little boy after watching him fall down. The remainer of the game was watching the fearsome foursome completely dominate the Cleveland Browns and Jim Brown. He never again ran for over a 100 yards against the Los Angeles Rams and retired not too much later. But I am sure this didn't have anything to do with it. Jim Brown will forever be considered the greatest running back in National Football League history as will the Los Angeles Rams Fearsome Foursome of Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen and David Deacon Jones. ''

   Other teams front fours have come and gone, been successful and gained a lots of highlights but the ones that will be always at the fourfront will be the teams whose names will be remembered as the Steel Curtain, Purple People Eaters, and the first of them all the Fearsome Foursome....