On the good side<\/p>\n

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• The beauty of a sweep play with the pulling guards getting in front of the runner and clearing the path for a graceful runner to elude remaining defenders<\/li>\n
• The arc of the long pass (captured so beautifully by NFL films); the pass that falls into the hands of a receiver in stride.<\/li>\n
• The fact that some really decent human beings can play this often-savage game and come out with their personalities intact.<\/li>\n
• The fun of being a fan and wondering whether the quarterback-impaired Rams will look outside the box for bad-boy Johnny Manziel or good-soldier improviser Robert Griffin III. Also, isn\u2019t it about time for the Rams to at least have a high level African-American coach?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  What the Rams do on a day-to-day basis will become more and more distant to me, and I\u2019ll miss that. But maybe that won\u2019t last forever. \u201cShark\u201d and basketball\u2019s Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said a year ago that the NFL will self-implode in ten years. I could kind of go for that, no more violent tackle football. Instead we could have a low-budget friendly Touch Football League featuring the athleticism and the mental rigor and creativity that makes football so great. Well, I\u2019m dreaming wildly, while the Rams are simply California dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Like many people, I have mixed feelings about the Rams leaving St. Louis for Los Angeles. In some ways, they parallel the mixed feelings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2581,294,1726,304],"tags":[813,815,2494],"yoast_head":"\n