RAIDERS/RAMS Report: "Beware of the NFL," "The Rams back in Southland? Be very afraid"

The cold hard facts, from LAist:

Let’s take the gossip that came out today from Chris Myers of Fox Sports Radio saying that the Oakland Raiders are the front runners of coming to LA.

If this were to somehow come to fruition LA would be getting the biggest joke of the NFL. Now that the Detroit Lions have transcended the ignominy of being the winless team, the Raiders are now the lowest of the low.

Their head coach Tom Cable is under investigation by the Napa County district attorney for allegedly blindsiding one of his assistant coaches, throwing him off a chair causing his head to bounce off a table and break his jaw.

Since losing the Super Bowl to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 2002 season, the Raiders have gone 25-76.

Most of this NFL team coming to L. A. (Are we a bunch of hicks who need a pro football team to draw attention, respect or fear? HA!) flap is based around the possibility of a stadium in the same (or a close one, who keeps up w/ this stuff?) gravel pit east of Los Angeles proper that Raider boss man Al Davis wanted to stadiumize in the long-ago mid-1990s. Is anything new ever going to happen, anywhere? Ever?

Also, from St. Louis:

I wanted so badly to switch channels, but I was here, and as we've learned over the years, there's nothing worse than being trapped at an NFL game with so many better ones on TV.

This wasn't entertainment as much as punishment, linebacker Leonard Little, who killed a woman here while driving drunk a number of years ago, leaving the Rams' bench area in the closing minutes to confront a Vikings fan sitting in the stands. Just another example of what everyone is missing in L.A. since we don't have a team.

Talk about Throwback Sunday -- our old teams lost by the combined score of 82-17, bringing back memories of so many wasted Sundays in the Coliseum and Anaheim.

We love nostalgia. Especially for the bad old days.