The best Rams team in franchise history

The Los Angeles Rams have a storied history with some incredible teams in both cities they played in, but this one tops them all.

The Los Angeles Rams are no stranger to both relocating and finding success no matter where the franchise ultimately lands.

While originating in Cleveland before heading to both Los Angeles and St. Louis, the Rams are once again on the West Coast in the “City of Angels.” However, despite spending the majority of the team's NFL lifetime in Los Angeles, the best team in franchise history actually came during the Rams' more than a two-decade-long stint in St. Louis.

Arriving in St. Louis in 1995, it did not take the Rams very long to settle in en route to almost immediately producing the best single-season effort in franchise history. Even though the Rams have won multiple NFL Championships while appearing in a total of four Super Bowls in the modern era, the current NFC West franchise has only captured one Super Bowl title as it stands today. With St. Louis defeating the Tennessee Titans as a result of Super Bowl XXXIV, the 1999 Rams are most definitely the best team in franchise history.

Not only did the 1999 campaign produce the franchise's lone Super Bowl title, which helps the team's case in this scenario, but it also manifested one of the most memorable offensive attacks in league history in the “Greatest Show on Turf.” Although the Rams surely had more than a formidable defense back then, it was the team's offense led by NFL MVP quarterback and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner, running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt — among others — that really put St. Louis on the map just before the turn of the century.

Prior to recording the most memorable moment in franchise history in January 2000, the Rams tallied a stellar 13-3 regular-season effort while most notably stringing together a six-game winning streak and another seven-game winning streak before postseason play even began. It is worth noting that the Rams would eventually avenge a regular-season loss to the aforementioned Titans — one that Tennessee won by the score of 24-21 in Nashville — come Super Bowl XXXIV with St. Louis toppling the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC to open the postseason.

With Warner bursting onto the scene out of absolutely nowhere, his ability to step in and produce right off the bat, coupled with the weapons around him and the leadership of veteran NFL head coach Dick Vermeil, the legendary Rams signal-caller managed to win an NFL MVP Award in 1999 before eventually adding a Super Bowl MVP trophy to his mantle as well. Warner and company defeated the Titans by the score of 23-16 while winning the game in infamous fashion as Rams linebacker Mike Jones tackled Tennessee wide receiver Kevin Dyson on the one-yard line as time expired in regulation.

With the Lombardi Trophy ultimately becoming the icing on the cake for the 1999 Rams, St. Louis housed this season's Coach of the Year, NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP and Offensive Player of the Year when all was said and done.