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NFL Season Preview: NFL Season Preview: St. Louis Rams
Posted August 3rd ago via Deadspin
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Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it.

Last year, we asked some of our favorite writers to opine why Their Favorite Team Was Better Than Yours. Ultimately, we found this constrictive, and it also might have killed James Frey. So this time, we've just asked them to just run free, talk about their team, their experience as a fan, their hopes, their dreams, their desires for oral sex. All our teams are now assigned; if you sent us an email and we didn't get back to you, we're sorry, and we accept your scorn. But today: The St. Louis Rams.

Your author is Tim Grierson, , a film and music critic whose work appears in L.A. Weekly, Blender, VH1.com, and The Simon. When he gets around to it, he also blogs at Everybody's Got One. His words are after the jump.

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They're in a mediocre division and they play in the weaker conference. Their defense is abysmal -- your grandma could rush for 100 yards on them -- but they get plenty of turnovers and their offense scores enough to keep them in any game. They have possibly the best up-and-coming running back in the league. They missed the playoffs by a fraction last year and ended the season on a three-game winning streak.

So what inspirational credo have the St. Louis Rams adopted for 2007?

I Believe.

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