Ben Gilbert

He was almost like the first money baller.

One of the first innovations he did was he was one of the first coaches to really review film.

and recognize patterns in plays and statistically manually tally, here's what we have to do against this team and that team, and here's what worked for us last year, and here's what didn't work for us this year.

Paul Brown was the first modern, not just football coach, but I think sports coach, period, in America.

And, you know, every human is flawed, so we shouldn't make him out to be the messiah or something.

But he was basically the first coach to start racial integration of the team and recognize that if we have the best players, then we're going to win.

So we just need to do whatever it takes to get the best players on our team.

The other thing that he did, he employed an entire staff of assistant coaches year round.

I think it was six people in addition to him.

No other team did that.

That's counter-positioning right there.

Ugh, the Rams were so good at PR.

But put a pin in Pete Rozelle for the moment.

So for a quick review of where we are right now, you've got the NFL.

It's an eight-team league.

The Rams have just moved from Cleveland to LA.

And then you've got this AFC that's starting to play.

What year do they actually start?

1946.

Same year that the Rams moved to California.