The Rams came to Los Angeles on Jan. 10. But the NFL officially came to Los Angeles on Jan. 12, when the following e-mail washed up into the mailbox: “When are we going to get rid of Jeff Fisher?”

You don’t have a franchise until the fans want the coach fired. It’s in the rules. Fisher hadn’t even called up Zillow yet, and somebody wanted him stopped before he reached the Rockies.

Granted, Fisher had coached the Rams four years without a winning record, so the heat was there already. But, according to ESPN, the Rams are planning to turn down the burner. They are seeking to extend the contracts of Fisher and General Manager Les Snead, which would remove that pesky issue from the narrative of the Homecoming Season (not that Stan Kroenke couldn’t fire them anyway).

Maybe the Rams have noticed the patience of the Cincinnati Bengals, who hired Marvin Lewis in 2003 and rode through the storms until they got him a team that could go 43-20-1 the past four years. The Bengals put in the earplugs to put off the “Marvin Must Go” chants. So when Cincinnati goes 0-5 in the past five years of playoffs, people blame quarterback Andy Dalton, not Lewis. See, fans can be housebroken.

The Steelers have had three coaches since 1969. The Browns just hired their fifth coach since 2009. Compare and contrast.

Meanwhile, Tampa Bay has had four coaches since it fired Jon Gruden. Oakland has eight since it fired Jon Gruden. The Rams had six during their 21 years in St. Louis.

Unless there’s an obvious Vince Lombardi out there, it seems a little pointless to keep firing people, and not very creative besides. It’s by far the easiest move and it quiets the noise for at least a season. But it doesn’t often work.

Besides, the last three coaches who won Super Bowls are members of Gruden’s FFCA (Fired Football Coaches Association), as are 10 of the past 15.

That brings us, circuitously, to Mike Scioscia.

The Angels haven’t hit rock bottom but they can see it. Before they broke an 11-game losing streak Tuesday, they were 20 games below .500 for the first time since Scioscia took over in 2000. It is a witches’ brew of empty drafting, wretched trades and cataclysmic injury, leaving Mike Trout standing as lonely as a yield sign, barely visible in a Louisiana flood.

Scioscia has been on the job seven years longer than any other MLB manager has been on his. Bruce Bochy, who took over the Giants in 2007, is next. Joe Girardi, who got the Yankees job in 2008, follows. Bochy and Girardi have won World Series (three, in Bochy’s case) but Scioscia was the first manager to do so for the Angels and, in fact, has managed every postseason series victory in their history.

Six Angels teams have won 94 or more games, all managed by the unyielding Scioscia, who, if he ever ran a ticket agency, would name it Stubborn Hub.

But few managers survive such a death dive, and the Angels have made the playoffs only once since 2009. Increasingly, the fans are saying they’re tired of Scioscia. One imagines he’s tired of a few things, too.

It’s not that the Angels are numb to his message, or need to hear a “new voice.” Only 11 are still around from 2014. There are plenty of new ears, just not enough arms or bats. And there are few signs of half-stepping or daydreaming that would indicate the Angels have gone straight to check-out.

With all that, it would neither be surprising nor completely unjust if the Angels cut the cord. And they wouldn’t have to go on a worldwide search. Ron Roenicke and Gary DiSarcina are on the coaching staff and Bud Black is in the front office.

Scioscia has two years and $12 million left on his contract. Arte Moreno refused to pay for competent left fielders in the off-season, but that was a luxury tax issue, not a manager’s salary. Moreno probably knows another team would hire Scioscia, probably by the World Series, and take him off the hook.

It’s reminiscent of late 1996, when Chuck Finley was asked what manager would be ideal for the futile Angels.

“How about the Amazing Kreskin?” he replied.

Only an illusionist would see the wisdom in changing managers now, but that’s why all the firings happen. For a day or a week or a month, they divert reality.

Contact the writer: mwhicker@scng.com