Symbolism Unavoidable As The Banners Come Down At The Edward Jones Dome

BANNERS COMING DOWN......GUESS ITS REALLY HAPPENING pic.twitter.com/CKmIngcrSy

— WILLIAM GREENBLATT (@BILLGREENBLATT) January 14, 2016

SHE'S BEING LOWERED DOWN................ pic.twitter.com/gqpNKVRBcw

— WILLIAM GREENBLATT (@BILLGREENBLATT) January 14, 2016

Sad day. The banners are coming down from the Edward Jones Dome rafters #Rams https://t.co/yckrR6GIfP pic.twitter.com/6hAj7rImLj

— Rob Edwards (@RobertDEdwards) January 14, 2016

PHOTOS: #Rams banners come down at the Edward Jones Dome (Courtesy Bill Greenblatt/UPI) pic.twitter.com/V5uiGB69eF

— Rob Edwards (@RobertDEdwards) January 14, 2016

And with that, we got the perfect embodiment of the end of an era.

The St. Louis Rams ended tonight as the best remnants of their best moments were carefully pulled from their lofty perches onto mortal grounds...ok, that's a bit overblown,

But it deserves to be.

We're being forced to say goodbye to an era. Really, we're being forced to say goodbye to multiple eras. But a group of those eras make up the 21 years we'll forever recognize as the St. Louis Rams.

That's over. It's just so hard...to say goodbye...to yesterday.