LOS ANGELES—On a cloudless, endlessly blue Saturday afternoon in July, the unlimited future of the Rams could be described in one word.
Watching the team take the field at UC Irvine for its first official training camp practice, mingling with the thousands of beaming fans who showed up simply to cheer calisthenics, former Rams quarterback Jim Everett gushed about the scene.
“Amazing,” Everett said at the time.
Four months later, the same word applies to the same team, but in not quite the same way.
Amazing, how the Rams could have squandered so much goodwill so fast.