Go L.A. Rams. OK, I’m definitely partial. Grew up my first 40+ years in L.A. before moving to San Diego County, where we no longer have the Chargers and could never root for them anyway since they were (are) owned by a racist family that was the fifth largest donor to Dubya Bush and the single biggest donor to Rick Perry in 2016 (what is it with those Texas governors?). So I like the Rams (and please, as MICHAEL MOORE observed, yeah, I agree the pass interference call was bad. But there were FOUR foul calls these terrible referees failed to call against New Orleans, each of which had an equal influence on the game, so it more than evens out).
But there is also history and social justice…
Los Angeles is the home to major league sports breaking the color barrier: in baseball, Jackie Robinson was on what became the Los Angeles Dodgers, and in football, when the Cleveland Rams wanted to move to L.A. and play in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Coliseum rules prohibited contracts with businesses that discriminated, so the L.A. Rams, as a condition for being able to play in the Coliseum, accepted the first NFL African American players: Woody Strode and Kenny Washington (who it so happens had also been roommates with Jackie Robinson when all three were together at UCLA).
Go L.A. Rams. OK, I’m definitely partial. Grew up my first 40+ years in L.A. before moving to San Diego County, where we no longer have the Chargers and could never root for them anyway since they were (are) owned by a racist family that was the fifth largest donor to Dubya Bush and the single biggest donor to Rick Perry in 2016 (what is it with those Texas governors?). So I like the Rams (and please, as MICHAEL MOORE observed, yeah, I agree the pass interference call was bad. But there were FOUR foul calls these terrible referees failed to call against New Orleans, each of which had an equal influence on the game, so it more than evens out).
But there is also history and social justice…
Los Angeles is the home to major league sports breaking the color barrier: in baseball, Jackie Robinson was on what became the Los Angeles Dodgers, and in football, when the Cleveland Rams wanted to move to L.A. and play in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Coliseum rules prohibited contracts with businesses that discriminated, so the L.A. Rams, as a condition for being able to play in the Coliseum, accepted the first NFL African American players: Woody Strode and Kenny Washington (who it so happens had also been roommates with Jackie Robinson when all three were together at UCLA).
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/forgotten-story-of-four-who-broke-color-barrier-in-pro-football-to-screen-at-royce