The San Francisco 49ers added Richard Sherman this weekend, ratcheting up what may now be the best rivalry in the National Football league between the Niners and the Los Angeles Rams.

Seeing the Seahawks blow their team up is pleasurable on many levels, but in that aftermath, the rivalry that was Seattle versus the Los Angeles Rams is gone.

At least for now.

In its place however, is one that was dormant for a good while, but now looks to be rocketing into the NFL stratosphere.

Los Angeles versus San Francisco.

Rams versus 49ers.

It just feels right.

And it’s coming just at the right time for a division that had become vanilla, not interesting, and somewhat predetermined. Say what you will of a division that had sent it’s best team to a couple of Super Bowl, winning one and giving one away, but it had grown stagnant.

Not no more.

Gone is the over the hill Arizona Cardinals and the completely unlikable Seahawks, and enter the youthful and fresh faced Niners and Rams, and both are loading up.

Los Angeles looks to want to win now, and San Francisco might not be too far off.

Meaning fans of this California rivalry can look forward to two young up and coming quarterbacks, up and coming head coaches, and organizations who have left the shackles of mediocrity behind.

Hey, better late than never.