This stinks. It all stinks. It’s Thursday night inside the Edward Jones Dome, and they’re loud here, they really are, and they’re watching winning football and they’re rattling Jameis Winston’s helmet and they’re really a part of it — St. Louis football — and yet, this could be it.
They showed a kid on the broadcast with a sign that read it was his first NFL game. Of course, it could have been his last, too. In a way, the evening couldn’t have gone better (big crowd, big win), but arguably also couldn’t have gone worse (what a tease this was — wouldn’t the Band-Aid rip be less painful if the Rams just wilted away?