The origins of the Nürnberg Rams go back to early 1981 when two players of the Ansbach Grizzlies began forming an American football team in Nuremberg.

The second season saw the club struggle and nominally being relegated from the Bundesliga but eventually saved by the demise of the Frankfurter Löwen.

The 1987 seasons saw the club's greatest success, reaching the semifinals of the play-off for the first and only time where it was knocked out by the Berlin Adler.

[1] After a hiatus of nine years a new Nürnberg Rams club was formed in 2007 and entered the lowest level of competition, the Aufbauliga, in 2008.

The new club won promotion in every season from 2008 to 2011 and quickly climbed the league pyramid from the sixth to the second tier.