The NFL's official website already has a 'Los Angeles Rams' page
Many people have wondered if the St. Louis Rams are going to become (again) the Los Angeles Rams, and there has been a lot of smoke to that potential fire.
The NFL — inadvertantly, perhaps — has tossed a little gas on this chatter.
If you typed this into your browser Monday morning:
http://www.nfl.com/teams/profile?team=LA
You would have gotten this:
Um, #awkward.
Yes, that's a legit web page, and it legitimately says "Los Angeles Rams" with the specs and stats from the current St. Louis club, in case you thought somehow there was a dead LA page of yore still living.
(UPDATE: The NFL has since taken the link down, referring it back to the NFL.com homepage. However, http://www.nfl.com/teams/St.%20Louis%20Rams/profile?team=la still points to the same page as of 5:30 p.m. ET.)
And before you assume that this is just an honest or quirky mistake, think about it: Someone on the web team had to develop this page with the "LA" suffix. For instance, when I type in "AND" for my hometown of Andover, Mass., I get nada. (Actually, it reverts back to the index page for the NFL teams.)
Hmm. You worried that Todd Gurley might be moving to the City of Angels in a year, Rams fans?
(h/t fieldofschemes.com)
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