SANTA CLARA, Calif. • Quarterback battles, national anthem protests and dealing with a franchise move dominated talk this summer for the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers.
Now, for the first time since 1994, the LA-Bay Area rivalry that is so heated in baseball, the NBA and NHL will return to the NFL on Monday night. While the teams remained division rivals after the Rams moved to St. Louis in 1995, it lacked some of the passion from when they were California’s two NFC teams. That’s back now with the Rams having returned to Los Angeles.