Those Aren’t L.A. Rams in the Super Bowl

It sickened me to see St. Louis trot out Jackie Slater and Eric Dickerson for the coin toss in the NFC championship game. I can just imagine the fans of St. Louis asking each other, “Who are those guys?”

This is the equivalent to the Ravens marching out Brian Sipe or Jim Brown for such a ceremony. Let’s all hope New England wins or Georgia might bring back Dieter Brock to hand out the rings on opening day.

Bryan Wiedeman

Chino Hills

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Sports history has certainly produced its share of outlandish, egotistical owners, but if there has ever been a more perfidious buffoon than Georgia, who, with her actions, proves the axiom, “It’s always better to be alimony-filthy-rich than honest,” I’ve yet to find him or her.

John R. Grush

Mission Viejo

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I think I remember Georgia Frontiere. Isn’t she the woman who didn’t know how to run a football team? What’s she doing down in New Orleans? And where did she get that Super Bowl ring?

Robert H. Williams

Monterey Park

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There should be no surprise or disappointment with regard to the St. Louis Rams’ lack of acknowledgment of their past. Doing so would reveal, in their minds, the sham that they used to justify moving to St. Louis--loss of fan base.

Matt Stein

Los Alamitos

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I had to laugh when I read the position-by-position matchup by Roy Jurgens before the NFC championship game. He had Kurt Warner and Donovan McNabb rated--are you ready?--even. What? Does he know that Warner was the No. 1-rated passer in the NFL this season, and was MVP for the second time? Threw for nearly 5,000 yards and 38 touchdowns.

Warner is on pace to be one of the greatest quarterbacks in history. McNabb has not come close to those stats in his four years in the NFL, and wouldn’t be rated in the top 100 quarterbacks. This is what you call even?

You guys at The Times haven’t given Warner the credit he deserves. Sam Farmer even said that Kordell Stewart should have been MVP. Come on, guys. Swallow hard, and tell it like it is.

Mick Taylor

Los Angeles

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Thanks to Bill Plaschke for reminding us of one of the great ones, Ollie Matson [Jan. 31]. I remember him as a world-class quarter-miler as well as a great football player at USF.

In 1950 our Rose Bowl-bound Cal Bears hosted the Dons at Memorial Stadium. The game was played in a heavy rain before about 4,000 of us fans lost in the 85,000-seat stadium. The Bears won, 13-7, after stopping Ollie at the goal line just before the half. We got lucky that day, but Ollie went on to greatness.

Ron Thomson

Los Angeles

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Multiple-choice quiz:

New Orleans is hosting the Super Bowl for a record ninth time because:

A. The Big Easy has the greatest array of hotel rooms, alcohol, food, music, exotic dancers, non-existent curfews, accommodating policemen and unchecked debauchery of any American city.

B. Las Vegas doesn’t have a large enough stadium.

Dave Macaray

Rowland Heights