I don’t dwell on the National Football League. It’s gone. It seems a bad idea for the NFL to leave open the Los Angeles market for 14 seasons (and counting), but, yeah, whatever.

Anyway, I just happened to bump into recent stories about L.A.’s former NFL teams — the Rams and Raiders. And collectively, well, they suck.

Would we really want Al Davis to be running a team in this town?

Would we want Georgia Frontiere owning a team in town? Now run by her son “Chip?”

I’m thinking, no, we would not. Those two owners, at this point in history, are as bad as any in the NFL. Including the Bidwells and the Spanos family.

And one of those teams sticking around in L.A. would have had other negative ramifications, as well.

Had the Rams stayed, Anaheim wouldn’t have restructured Angel Stadium into the cozy, baseball-only yard it is now. The one in which the Angels have turned into a powerhouse. Remember how hideous that dual-purpose stadium was? That bizarre ovoid/egg shape, with the movable seats in right field and minimal good seating for football or baseball? If the Rams are here, I envision both the Angels and Rams struggling to be competitive in a horrible venue.

Had the Raiders stayed, L.A. college football — USC and UCLA, that is — very possibly would not have enjoyed the renaissance it has experienced in the past decade. Hard to imagine USC coach Pete Carroll becoming a sports rock star in our midst, if he had to share the spotlight with an NFL head coach.

And diminished college football is not a good thing. No NFL season is as pregnant with tension as any given week of the college season, when one defeat can be ruinous. USC basically has been playing for a national championship every week for six seasons. UCLA was a game away from the 1998 national title game. Do they become that prominent with lots of us paying attention to the NFL? Maybe. They did, off and on, when the Rams were around, in the 1960s and 1970s. But maybe not, either, considering USC and UCLA have been the Big Dogs for a decade-plus now and have, undoubtedly, benefited from the lack of competition for L.A. football dollars.

If the Raiders stay, the Coliseum as we know it probably is gone. OK, yeah, the thing is kind of decrepit, but it’s lovably decrepit. So much cool stuff has happened in that stadium. Two Olympics, the Dodgers, USC, the Rams … Presumably, Al Davis would have bullied the Coliseum Commission into renovations by now, which would have meant gutting the stadium, and I’m not sure I want that.

If the Raiders stay, their fans are even more obnoxious, 14 years later. The team (let’s be frank) was adored by some seriously unsavory elements of Southland society. Like, oh, gangs. Better to let Oakland worry about Raiders fans/louts.

And here are the key concepts:

Would we want to be spending money to see teams owned by Al Davis and Georgia Frontiere?

Once upon a time — 30 years ago — Al Davis was a cutting-edge owner. But not lately. Whether he’s cuckoo, senile, whatever, he’s a shadow of himself. He’s 79 but still seems to want to micromanage the team and has lost whatever tiny bit of patience he once had. And it shows in the coaches who have come and gone (Mike White, Joe Bugel, Jon Gruden, Bill Callahan, Norv Turner, Art Shell) since Al went back to Oakland. Now, Lane Kiffin, whom Al hired when Kiffin was merely 31 and the (sorta) offensive coordinator at USC … is on the hot seat. Two games into his second season. Kiffin could be fired any day, according to the Bay Area newspapers.

Al is the guy who sues somebody every year, who makes rash and bizarre personnel moves (why would a team want Randy Moss?) … and here is the bottom line: Al has presided over a franchise with an 88-122 record since it left Los Angeles (92-125, counting the postseason, with one Super Bowl appearance, a blowout defeat), including an NFL-worst 20-62 since 2003.

Would the Raiders have done better in Los Angeles? Not when the same nutty senior citizen would have been in charge.

And Georgia? Her minions stumbled into a nice little run there, around the turn of the century, one that included a Super Bowl championship. But the Rams are 103-107 since they left town (109-110, counting playoffs). And, remember, they play in what has been the weakest division in the NFL almost the entire time they have been gone; that is, they have six very winnable games every year. And when the NFC West hasn’t been football’s worst division, the AFC West (the Raiders’ home) has been.

Would those teams be fun to watch? Like the Cowboys or Steelers or Patriots or another half-dozen franchises whose “commitment to excellence” isn’t an empty slogan?

Nope. Any given year, they would have been the same sorry, frustrating franchises we saw at the end of their L.A. runs.

We’re lucky those two teams are gone. Maybe some of you rue the absence of The League … but not those two teams under current ownership. No way. We’re better off with one great NCAA program, one with the potential to be really good — and an ability to cherry-pick our NFL games from a distance.