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Apparently Chris Meyer said so on his show when Jason Cole was on.

Anyone hear it?

No, unfortunately I didn't, but I read a bunch of people tweeting about it after he said it on his Tue. show.

Doesn't look like there's a podcast for the 29th, at least not yet...

I heard they were working on something 2 years ago regarding concessions and parking from a Gfriend of mine who was employed there. Hearsay so take it for what it's worth. She called me though knowing I'm a rams fan.

Elvis wrote:Doesn't look like there's a podcast for the 29th, at least not yet...

lol I'm waiting for that podcast too. Supposedly it has juicy Intel about LA and the Rams. Weird how they didn't upload that program.

But ya some people on Twitter listened to the show on the 29th and Chris Myers said the Rams and the Coliseum have a deal in place for 2 years.

Like I said to Coach Fisher yesterday, "there are at least a group of 25 of us who are looking forward to attending opening day at the Coliseum next year"

It's going to happen.

That guy in charge of SC sports and the coliseum sounds so familiar.

Stranger wrote:Like I said to Coach Fisher yesterday, "there are at least a group of 25 of us who are looking forward to attending opening day at the Coliseum next year"

Stranger, using your best poker face read, what was his reacton?

Hacksaw wrote:

Stranger wrote:Like I said to Coach Fisher yesterday, "there are at least a group of 25 of us who are looking forward to attending opening day at the Coliseum next year"

Stranger, using your best poker face read, what was his reacton?

Let's be honest here Hack, Fisher is a California native son and his mother still resides in San Fernando Valley and in fact, Fisher got some home cooking when the Rams trained in Oxnard so I have a feeling Fisher would embrace the move with open arms.

Rams coach Jeff Fisher feeling right at home this week


Head coach Jeff Fisher of the St. Louis Rams directs his team on November 2, 2014 in Santa Clara, California. Fisher is a native of the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

OXNARD >> It’s not often the head coach of a National Football League team can pick up the phone after practice, dial his mom’s number and tell her to leave the pot roast out because he’s coming over for dinner.

But among the many ancillary benefits to the St. Louis Rams spending the last three days practicing with the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard — some that were cleverly designed in pursuit of an ambitious objective — it gave Rams head coach and San Fernando Valley native Jeff Fisher the chance to hit up mom for the kind of dinner only a mother can deliver her son.

“I got to go home and get a home-cooked meal. Mom cooked me a home-cooked meal,” Fisher said. “So that was pretty good.”

At the risk of upsetting the good folks of St. Louis, who find themselves in a desperate fight to keep their pro football team in Missouri, if Rams owner Stan Kroenke gets his way, the former Taft High and USC star will get plenty of chances fill up on mom’s cooking.

And in the process, return the Rams to the region they called home for nearly 50 years.

Kroenke has his heart set on relocating the Rams to the Inglewood palace he envisions on the 60 acres he controls at the site of the old Hollywood Park Race Track.

Among other obstacles he must clear to make his wish come true — notably, convincing enough fellow owners he’s justified in bolting his native Missouri despite local leaders delivering more than $400 million dollars for a new stadium in downtown St. Louis — Kroenke finds himself in a battle royal with the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers, who are proposing a joint stadium proposal in Carson.

The NFL, which has long worked to get the NFL back to the second-biggest market in the country, is faced with a difficult decision figuring out which team or teams get the nod to Los Angeles and what stadium they’ll call home. A decision is expected by early January, at which point the Raiders and Chargers or Rams or a two-team combination of the three will officially call Los Angeles home in time for the 2016 season.

Which all sounds great, especially if you’re an L.A. resident longing to get pro football back. But if you’re one of the players or coaches from one of the three teams and you’re sole focus is on the 2015 season, not so much.

Awkward might be the best way to put it. It’s no secret what each team’s long-range objective is at this point — but in the short term players and coaches must go about their business in front of fans who know the clock is ticking on their favorite team’s local existence.

If anyone is ideally set up to deal with the uneasy situation it might be the Rams. Fisher was the head coach of the Houston Oilers in the mid-1990s as time ran out on their long stay in Texas.

“I’ve been through this,” Fisher said.

And it was as bad as you can imagine.

Then-owner Bud Adams, sensing he could never get local leaders to pony up the kind of money needed to adequately replace the Astrodome, announced after the 1995 season the Oilers would be moving to Nashville in 1998.

The Oilers limped through a disastrous season in 1996 playing in front of sparse, detached crowds and in a city that essentially detached itself from its once-beloved football team.

It got so bad a deal was worked out allowing the Oilers out of the last year of their Astrodome lease and sending them to Tennessee.

At that point the Houston message to the Oilers was “Don’t let the door hit you’re way out of town.”

In between wiping away the tears, of course.

Needless to say, it was quite the ordeal for Fisher and his players leaving one city for an entirely different one. Somehow, someway, they managed.

“Once we got through it, got settled, we were a pretty good football team.” Fisher said.

The manner in which Fisher led the Oilers through the transition solidified him as one of the top young coaches in the league.

Nearly 20 years later, he finds himself in almost the same exact situation.

It’s not official the Rams are leaving St. Louis, but everyone knows their heart is set on returning to Los Angeles.

That means spending an almost inevitable 2015 season playing under a dark cloud.

And while Fisher scanned all the Los Angeles Rams jerseys on hand his team’s workout with the Cowboys — and was thankful for it — he also walked a fine line.

Everything he says now relating to the potential move will be scrutinized by St. Louis fans. And everything the Rams do will be viewed through that prism.

Like, say, conspicuously scheduling three days of workouts an hour or so away from where their owner hopes to build a new stadium and L.A.’s latest entertainment hub.

While the higher-ups might have had specific reasons for making the Southern California side trip, it was all business for Fisher.

“I’ve said this numerous times — we started this early in the offseason and I talked to a number of clubs to try to set up some practices because we needed this. It’s almost like buying yourself and extra preseason game,” Fisher said.

“So for us it worked out. It had nothing to do with L.A. or anything else. It was great to get this group of fans here, but from a practicality standpoint and a convenience standpoint, this worked out for us.”

Nevertheless, there was some nostalgia for Fisher getting to work a few days so close to his native home.

“It’s kind of coincidental. But I’ve been through this area many, many times,” he said.

And having grown up in the area, he understands how the Rams still resonate.

All anyone had to do was look around at all the Rams gear on hand.

“They miss their team, and that’s understandable,” Fisher said. “And that’s why there is so much talk about bringing a franchise here.”

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