There are few things I enjoy more in football than the “road test.”
I first picked up the term about a decade ago, when the producers of a TV show kept flashing a “road test” graphic in bright red letters while recapping a spate of college football games. The term made me chuckle then as it’s perfect for illustrating the difficulty of going into another team’s house and winning a game.
So when I saw the Los Angeles Rams’ first game after an embarrassing home loss to the New York Jets last Sunday was against the NFC West-rival Seahawks in Seattle, I immediately dubbed it a “road test,” one that would go a long way toward telling us whether L.