 MAGIC NUMBERS & OTHER THOUGHTS, BY PMR (Nov
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* Magic number for
NFC West championship: 4 ---Rams 7-2 ---Panthers/49er's 3-6 * Magic number for NFC Home Field Advantage: 7 ---Rams 7-2 ---Lions 6-3 Any combination of Rams wins and Lions' losses totaling 7 will have the Rams hosting every playoff game be played at the TWD. The Rams can accomplish this with 4 more wins (11-5) coupled with 3 Lions' losses (10-6). * Magic number for a winning record: 2 :-) * Also---with a win over the 49er's next week, the Rams will not only be one game short of clinching the NFC West (unless the Panthers win, then two games), but they will have at least made the 49er's magic number all but out of reach. A win gives the Rams a 8-2 record, the 49er's a record of 3-7...one loss short of being mathemtically eliminated from the playoffs...(based on tie breaker of a Rams sweep of the 49er's). CROWD NOISE. Crowd noise at the TWD is WAY over rated. On 2-3 plays the volume got cranked, but other than that, forget it. I have a new scale for ranking the sound: The McGwire Scale. On the McGwire scale, a 10 is as loud as it was when the crowd spontaneously (apparently at the time) erupted into cheering when hey heard via their radios that McGwire hit number 69 in 98 when the Rams were playing the Desert Rats (Arizona). A 0 on the scale is a moment of silence. The Dome was normal [Sunday against Carolina]...not too loud, not too quiet, not just right...On two or three occassions, we really made some noise, but still on the scale with McGwire's HR at the top at 10, I have yet to experience anything louder than an 8. Most defensive plays are in the 6-7 range and special plays 7-8. A couple of times yesterday we hit a solid 8. |
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