re: NFL have that big a bone for the Rams??

Of course they have a bone for them. It makes sense from a revenue generation standpoint

They have so much money to gain from an LA franchise succeeding. They have almost no penetration in that market. Think about the level of bandwagon that exists out there for the Lakers. That's what they're looking for, they will make hundreds of millions.

This applies to the NFL as a whole due to RevShare.

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it’s a horrible look when the outcome is dictated by how the ref decides to interpret a rule. You can’t be lax on a rule 90% of the game, then decide to enforce it with 2 min left.

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When we look at some of the history of these recent NFL Championship games, we do have examples of it going both ways - Refs don't enforce the rules all game but get strict at a decisive moment during a series of plays during which the winning team scores a TD to take the lead late in the game. Then we have the example of, late in the game and at a decisive moment, the Refs suddenly go blind and don't see some calls, and these "no-calls" have a decisive impact on the game.

The NFL must indeed prefer this arrangement because the NFL itself has never directly acknowledged the problem, and certainly the NFL has never bothered to try to solve the "problem". That's why it is reasonable to speculate whether the NFL doesn't see this as a problem.

It's quite suspicious.