This nearly happened a year ago, after the NFL’s Rams announced their move from St. Louis back to greater Los Angeles. The Chargers had a chance to leave San Diego then and commit to joining the Rams at their $2.6 billion stadium (and counting) being built in Inglewood … or they could wait a year […]

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Well, that could hardly have gone worse. First year back in Los Angeles, and the Rams stunk it up. There’s losing and then there’s haplessly incompetent, no-hope, not-even-in-the-game losing of the sort the Rams had mastered by the end of a 4-12 season. The worst kind of team to live with is the team that […]

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Jeff Fisher was fired as coach of the Los Angeles Rams today, but he leaves the National Football League as No. 1 in one significant career statistic. His teams have lost 165 games. No coach in NFL history has lost more. Fisher shares the record for most defeats with Dan Reeves, but Reeves won 190 […]

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In Europe, the belief that soccer is more interesting to watch than American football is widespread. Approaching unanimous. If that preference is questioned, what often comes up is this: “American football has too many breaks in play. Soccer is continuous action.” The NFL RedZone package, however, turns that complaint on its head. It is the […]

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The Los Angeles Rams lost again today, 13-10 to the Carolina Panthers. That is four consecutive defeats for the lowest-scoring team in the NFL, at 16.2 points per game, a team that fell to 3-5 and looks doomed to post a losing record for the 10th consecutive season. A team already becoming irrelevant in Los […]

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Americans sometimes are surprised that few other people in the world are interested in the NFL. They have heard of something called the Super Bowl, but they overwhelmingly do not follow the game nor know very much about it. It isn’t as puzzling as it was 20 years ago because the NFL launched the Europe-based […]

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The LA Galaxy has been around for 21 seasons now, but it struck me today that never in that time had the soccer club had to fight for attention in its hometown with a local National Football League team. The NFL abandoned the Los Angeles market after the 1994 season, when the Rams and Raiders […]

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The opening weeks of their second stay in Los Angeles may not be going quite as well as the Rams would have hoped. Remember how they traded up to get the No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft? Ahead of their first season back in Los Angeles? The dramatic move clearly was intended to create […]

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If it were not already time for this, it certainly is now: We no longer can consider USC a “football” school. Not after what Alabama did to the Trojans in their open tonight … a 52-6 blowout, nationally televised, that made the Trojans look like chumps. Not after compiling a overall record of 57-28 since […]

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Well, this is the sort of nightmare scenario for NFL teams who inevitably say: “We did our homework.” Not talking about the Los Angeles Rams here. They needed a quarterback and they took Jared Goff of Cal with the first pick in the draft — the safer (and perhaps duller) choice between Goff and the […]

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