3 compelling reasons to root for the Rams this weekend

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesYou may already be aware of this, but the Rams and Saints will meet up in the NFC Conference Championship Game next week. As a Falcons fan, the prospect of New Orleans playing in Mercedes-Benz Stadium for a Super Bowl remains too awful to really comprehend, so there’s a lot at stake in this one.

If you need convincing—or if you’re one of those fans who, thanks to advanced college football brain poisoning, think you should root for an in-division rival—here are three reasons to print off a Rams logo and slap it on your t-shirt this weekend.

#1: The Rams are actually fun

You have a choice between rooting for the Patriots, who are as inevitable as death and half…