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Jerry Jones drawn to “good flavor” of the Rams in L.A.

Breaking: The Rams will return to California.

Technically, they will. In August, the Rams will practice with the Cowboys in Oxnard. Not as a precursor to a preseason game between the two teams, but as a coincidentally situated joint venture.

So why did the Cowboys want to bring the Rams to town for the August 17-18 sessions?

“With the initial focus groups and the initial [look-sees], the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California,” owner Jerry Jones recently said, via Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News. “And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.