Topic summary
Cleveland Rams
Shaw Stadium
Cleveland Stadium
Royal blue, gold (1938–1945)
Cleveland Rams (1936–1942, 1944–1945)
Suspended operations (1943)
Los Angeles Rams (1946–1994, 2016–present)
St. Louis Rams (1995–2015)
National Football League (1937–1945)
The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team that played in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945. The Rams competed in the second American Football League (AFL) for the 1936 season and the National Football League (NFL) from 1937 to 1945, winning the NFL championship in 1945, before moving to Los Angeles in 1946 to become the first of only two professional football champions to play the following season in another city.
The move of the team to Los Angeles helped to jump-start the reintegration of pro football by African American players and opened up the West Coast to professional sports. After being based in Los Angeles for 49 years, the Rams franchise moved again after the 1994 NFL season to St. Louis where the franchise stayed for 21 seasons before moving back to Los Angeles after the 2015 NFL season.