I‘m not a Rams fan. This is because I do not respect football teams that play indoors, a practice (rightly) mocked by my people: Cleveland Browns fans. Not that we have much to brag about other than our terrible weather.
Still, I never hated the Rams. Having lived in St. Louis, where I attended college, and now happily married into a family of die-hard Rams fans, the recent news of the Rams’ departure to Los Angeles has brought dark days. When casually explaining my views on domed teams to my (then future) brother-in-law, I was on the verge of signing my own death warrant, so far as relationship futures were concerned. The Edward Jones Dome is a Cathedral to Rams faithful and here I was insulting it when meeting my wife’s brother for the first time.
