Skip Bayless claimed ‘Worst fans in America are Los Angeles Rams fans’ before SB LVI

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Next, Bayless talks through the team’s moves from Los Angeles, to Anaheim, then all the way out to St. Louis, before coming back home (yes, home) to L.A.  The pundit prince of protagonism then tries to pit LA Rams fans against LA Dodgers fans.

"‘Here is where it ends. Or, where it begins. It starts and ends in Los Angeles with the Dodgers. It’s a Dodger town at heart.’- Skip Bayless per video above"

Correct me if I’m wrong, here, but the Rams are in no real danger of playing the Dodgers any time soon. Are they? Have I missed something? A city can hold love in its heart for two teams from a different sport, can’t they? (Hello New York, Boston, virtually any other major city in America). Or is Skip saying Los Angeles prefers baseball to football? Is he conflating two different arguments here?

Giving short shrift to the Lakers, Bayless lays out the sports hierarchy of Los Angeles thusly, Dodgers, Lakers, and then the Rams. More than once he says this is because it’s Hollywood (or, as he seems curiously intent on pronouncing it, Hoh-Lee-Wood, as though teaching a small child how to pronounce the word), the inference being that we have small attention spans and that, what? Because they make movies down the street from the stadium (in Hoh-Lee-Wood), our love for our sports teams is disposable and fleeting? Kind of patronizing, no?

Skip concludes that, sure, the Rams are feeling the love right now. They have just won a Super Bowl, after all. Once the good times run out, though? He believes that the fans are myopic and that fans will walk away as soon as the Rams struggle once more. It’s inevitable. At some point, even the zany tactics of the LA Rams’ streak of success will pause and the team will need to regroup and reload.

What say you to all of these allegations, discerning and passionate Rams fans? Is Skip Bayless finally right for the first time in his career? Are we sleepy and disinterested in our fandom? Do we pick the Rams up like a plaything whenever we’re in the mood, dropping them like an unfaithful ex whenever they dare to lose? Tell us what you think.

As for Skip Bayless. Well, whatever. Good luck to him. I haven’t got time to watch any more of his show. I’m going to see a movie. This is Hoh-Lee-Wood, Skip. We’ve got other things to do.