Is that trend or just a blip?

During the just-completed regular season, the Rams drew a better rating in St. Louis than in Los Angeles four times. Plus they had nearly the same overall rating for the 11 games that were televised in St. Louis (12.0) as Los Angeles (12.1) drew for the full slate of 16 games that were shown there.

The 23.4 rating the Rams had in LA last weekend is the best number they have generated in their threes seasons back there. But it is a paltry figure for a postseason game in a team’s home market. And it fell far short of the worst rating (34.1) the Rams pulled in St. Louis for the 10 postseason games they had while based in Missouri.

The situation with Los Angeles’ AFC entrant, the Chargers, is similar to what happened last year with the Rams — the team had a better rating in the city it jettisoned than the one in which it now resides. And the difference was even more profound. The Chargers played the Patriots last weekend and the rating in LA was 17.2. In San Diego, which they jilted two years earlier, the figure was 29.7.