How Well Do We Havoc?

I really enjoy crazy box scores. I'm not a Los Angeles Rams fan (not only did Stan Kroenke lie and cheat, he lost $790 million to the City of St. Louis in a lawsuit because he lied and cheated), but I was a St. Louis Rams fan. I had season tickets and everything. And there's one Rams game that stands out as the craziest box score I can remember: Rams vs. Jaguars in 1996.

I can't find a full box score (the internet was barely anything in 1996) but I did find this box of team stats:

Final Score: Rams 17, Jaguars 14. I was there. I saw it happen. 538 yards to 204 yards and lost.

Obviously, from the box, the six turnovers are the reason the Rams won. Turnovers are football. But that doesn't tell the full story of where the interceptions happened. If the Jags had THIRTY SIX first downs yet only 14 points, that tells you they basically had to get to the redzone with every drive before turning it over.

And that's what they did. Here's where the five interceptions occurred:

--Rams eight yard line
--Rams twelve yard line
--Rams goal line
--Rams seven yard line
--Rams two yard line

Watching football in 1996 for Robert:

• September 14, 1996: Illini QB Mark Hoekstra throws five interceptions in the fourth quarter against Arizona.
• October 20, 1996: The Rams intercept Mark Brunell five times in the redzone to win a game where they had 204 yards of offense and only had the ball for 18 minutes.

There was another crazy Rams-Jags box score this past Sunday. And it makes the point I want to make in this NERDstats post. Sometimes, all you need is Havoc.