Future and Past Looks at the NFL in L.A.

My wife and I enjoy sitting back and watching pro football games on TV. We currently get a reasonable set of choices on a Sunday morning. While I understand that there exist a multitude of people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for PSLs, tickets, etc., we are not interested.

I therefore would like to post two conditions that must be met before the NFL can call L.A. home again:

1. No public money must be spent--this includes improvements for on-ramps, roadways, and the like.

2. No change in the present method of scheduling TV games. This means no blackouts and no showing a miserable home team when a better game is available.

JOHN JOHNSON

Arcadia

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Regarding your “what-if” list in Los Angeles Ram history on Oct. 27, let me add:

1. What if Carroll Rosenbloom had willed the Rams to his son instead of the evil Georgia? The Rams would still be in Anaheim, and Georgia could not even think of firing her stepson, as she eventually did.

2. What if after the John Robinson years, the Rams had hired Bill Parcells or Mike Ditka? No, Georgia ensured more years of poor-performing teams (to aid a franchise move) by bringing back Chuck Knox.

3. What if in the last years in Anaheim, the Rams hadn’t traded players to division rival San Francisco for future draft picks?

4. What if Leigh Steinberg had had the foresight to scrap his “Save the Rams” campaign and focused on a “Save the Rams’ Name” campaign as Cleveland did with the Browns? I would rather not have any Ram team than to see the continuing joke of a team in St. Louis.

BRUCE E. KONSCHUH

Fullerton