All Chino Hills precincts have reported making it official: February has once again finished 12th on Rankman’s annual ranking of months.
Order of merit:
- April (Masters\Rankman’s birthday\Hitler offed self)
- June (also Alice Cooper’s favorite month because, you know, school’s out)
- July (trashy novels at beach while sipping umbrella drinks under an umbrella)
- May (merry month and, unlike February, easy to say and spell)
- March (NCAA Tournament, favorite month for dimes)
- November (college football rivalries trump Kennedy assassination)
- January (naive hope of better times to come)
- December (Boxing Day, college bowl picks, Charlie Brown Christmas Special)
- August (too many nightmares involving Pop Warner practice, Hiroshima and Manson Family)
- October (um, Columbus didn’t discover America)
- September (back to school…February’s bastard child)
- February (shortest\longest month)
Favorite Rams: 20 – 16
Rankman tried his best to act like he didn’t care when the Rams bolted for St. Louis in 1995. It was the journalist in me, feigning indifference to another money-grubbing owner ripping a local institution from its historical moorings. But of course I was pissed off and could not even stomach watching Georgia Frontiere lift the Lombardi Trophy after winning a Super Bowl for St. Louis. The LOS ANGELES Rams came on to my radar as a boy around 1966, when lip-licking coach George Allen raised my NFL consciousness in leading our heroes to the pinnacle of greatness. It was a period of thrilling highs and gut-wrenching heartbreak and all my memories are in black-and-white. Rankman was lucky to end up covering the Rams, for the L.A. Times, in the period roughly from 1983 until 1990. With the Rams coming home after all these years, I thought it would be fun to roll out my top-25 list of all-time favorite Rams. Your list should be different.
Disingenuous congratulations to the Carolina Panthers and Golden State Warriors for their fabulous so-far seasons.
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