The Los Angeles market has been slow to embrace the revenant Rams.

Thousands of empty seats at the Coliseum, the Rams’ home again while the $2.1 billion stadium in Inglewood is built, can be seen in the background of TV shots.

Late last week an L.A. podcast pundit sarcastically said, “I’m seeing tons of Rams jerseys everywhere.” When someone said, “You’re joking, right?”, the pundit said, “Actually, I’m seeing more Philadelphia jerseys. Still.” (The Rams and Eagles played in the Coliseum on October 10, and Eagles fans seemed to make up half the crowd, despite the Rams’ 9-3 record.)

But that was before the Rams went to Seattle and destroyed the Seahawks this afternoon, 42-7, lifting them to a 10-4 record and allowing them to take a two-game lead over Seattle in the NFC West standings with two games to play.

Los Angeles, like New York, is a market with so many big-league teams that many fans are shameless front-runners.

The Rams just gave them cause to climb on the bandwagon because the Seahawks 1) played in two of the previous five Super Bowls, 2) have reached the playoffs for five seasons running, 3) won the NFC West three of the past four seasons and 4) are coached by Pete Carroll, formerly of USC and 5) they were just trampled by the Rams

But before we come at the club with open arms inside Aaron Donald jerseys, the club needs to keep some key concepts in mind.

Basically, the team needs to be aware of the damage done by more than two decades not in the Los Angeles market and observe the following stipulations:

–The 21-season period from 1995 through 2015 will not be mentioned in regard to the Los Angeles Rams. If reference must be made to those years, the relevant team shall be referred to as the “St. Louis franchise”.

–The final traces of the color gold in the Rams’ uniforms will be eliminated as soon as possible in favor of the clean blue-and-white uniforms of the Fearsome Foursome days.

–For purposes of discussion, the Los Angeles Rams have played in one Super Bowl, in January of 1980, and lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Events in 2000 and 2002 belong to the “St. Louis franchise”.

–Individuals such as Marshall Faulk, Kurt Warner, Mike Martz … we do not know them, in Los Angeles, and will not speak of them. Statistical comparisons shall refer to the years 1946 through 1994, and from 2016 to the present. If someone feels compelled to refer to the interim period it shall be made clear that the history belongs to that “St. Louis franchise”.

–The Rams coach prior to Jeff Fisher, in 2016 … was Chuck Knox.

–The Rams’ abandonment of the L.A. market, after 1994, shall be attributed to an avaricious owner, now deceased, who took advantage of the rubes in Saint Loo and Missouri — where a $280 million, state-of-the-art (well, circa 1995) dome was built with taxpayer money.

L.A. Rams fans do not want to hear of the period in St. Louis. That franchise was mostly bad, aside from the Faulk-Warner-Vermiel-Martz years at the turn of the century, and to talk about those years is to stir up old animosities toward the club.

Los Angeles will take no heed of that St. Louis club, just as the Los Angeles Lakers pay little or no attention to the Minneapolis version of the club and the Los Angeles Dodgers pay limited attention to the Brooklyn edition of the team.

Once we get that squared away, and this franchise regains an L.A. feel, with celebrities in the luxury boxes, well, it’s everyone on board.

Up next? The playoffs, if the Rams clinch by winning one of their final two games (at Tennessee, home to San Francisco) or the Seahawks lose one of theirs (at Dallas, home to Arizona).

If the Rams lose twice, and Seattle wins twice, the Seahawks win the division on the basis of a superior record in division games. And still-undecided fans may hold off until they see additional evidence of competence.