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Matchup of NFL teams that jilted St. Louis, Cardinals-Rams, near bottom of ratings heap

That’s what St. Louis television viewers said last weekend to the two NFL teams that have scuttled out of town, the Cardinals and Rams. The former left 33 years ago for a better deal in Arizona, the latter five years ago to chase a windfall in Los Angeles.

They met Sunday in a game shown locally on KMOV (Channel 4), a contest in which the stakes couldn’t get much higher — a regular-season finale in which the winner gained a playoff berth. But the matchup did better in the ratings than only one of the four other NFL games shown that day in St.