<P> The second franchise was the St. Louis Gunners . The Gunners were an independent professional football team based that played the last three games of the 1934 National Football League season, replacing the Cincinnati Reds on the league schedule after the Reds' league membership was suspended . They won their first game against the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) 6--0, but lost the last two to the Detroit Lions (40--7) and the Green Bay Packers (21--14). Six of the Reds players joined the team for the last two games . The team was headquartered at the St. Louis National Guard Armory, which accounts for its nickname the' Gunners' . </P> <P> The third franchise was the St. Louis Cardinals and they played in St. Louis 1960 to 1987 . They advanced to the playoffs just three times (1974, 1975 & 1982), never hosting or winning in any appearance . In 1987, the team moved to Phoenix, Arizona and became the Phoenix Cardinals; the team changed its geographic location name to Arizona in 1994 . Before moving to St. Louis, the Cardinals were based in Chicago . The Chicago Cardinals played there from their founding in 1920 until their move to Missouri in 1959 . </P> <P> The St. Louis Rams, founded in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio, won the pre-merger NFL Championship twice, in 1945 and 1951 . After playing in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1994, the Rams moved to St. Louis in 1995 . The Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans 23--16 to win Super Bowl XXXIV in 1999 . The team also appeared in Super Bowl XXXVI in 2001, which they lost 20--17 to the New England Patriots . The team's former home in St. Louis (the Edward Jones Dome) hosted 66,965 spectators . On January 13, 2016, it was announced that NFL owners voted 30--2 to allow Rams ownership to move the team back to Los Angeles for the 2016 season . </P> <P> Saint Louis University football coach Eddie Cochems developed the first modern passing offense in American football history in 1906 . Cochems' star halfback, Bradbury Robinson, threw the first legal forward pass on September 5, 1906, in a 22 - 0 victory over Carroll College at Waukesha, Wisconsin . </P>

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