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Article: A fire rages around Rams' Martz.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2005
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Byline: Bernie Miklasz
ST. LOUIS _ This week Rams coach Mike Martz was asked about coping with the extreme heat his team will encounter in Arizona while playing the Cardinals in the sauna known as Sun Devil Stadium.
Game-time temperatures might reach 100 degrees, but that's a summer breeze to Martz when compared to the heat surrounding his team in St. Louis. If the Rams lose to the Cardinals, Martz will return to an inferno. After the stumble in the opener at San Francisco, the Rams already are locked into early-season crisis mode.
The defeat in San Francisco prompted hysterical, hateful reactions on St. Louis talk-radio shows and Internet ...