My journey to following the Rams was always a hard thing to explain to anyone that asked.
In the beginning, I was 11 years old and had been increasingly, if still vaguely, aware of the NFL and football at large. My family members were mostly college football fans and while living in Tucson, Arizona at the time — the Cardinals weren’t capturing anyone’s imagination, even just two hours south of Phoenix.
The Rams had recently just won a Super Bowl and in heartbreaking fashion to my neophyte football interest, lost another.