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The NFL is serious business, as the serious business people who coach and administer football games are all too happy to tell you.

But sometimes, all you need to do to spark a history-making trade (Should that have been in ALL CAPS? Or had more horn fanfare?) is walk out and run into the guy next door.

Peter King of TheMMQB.com wrote a detailed look at the timeline of the deal between the Rams and the Titans for the top pick in next week’s draft, one which started with a happy coincidence.

The Rams wanted a quarterback, and knew picking 15th would make it harder to get one. The Titans picked first, needing everything but a quarterback. So when they were stationed in suites next door to each other at the Scouting Combine, it gave Rams General Manager Les Snead a chance to bump into Titans G.M. Jon Robinson in the hallway.

“The Titans,” Snead thought. “This will be convenient.”

“From the start,” Rams executive Kevin Demoff said, “the situation was serendipitous for both teams.”

While it took more than a chance meeting to get the deal done (King shares many interesting details of how much more), it is a little funny the way NFL trades begin with a kids-in-a-sandbox interaction (Hey, you like trucks? I do too. Let’s be friends).

Eagles executive Howie Roseman cited the same phenomenon in his deal with Miami to gain draft spots and dump bad contracts, since they were two doors down in Indianapolis.

So maybe you don’t have to spend all day analyzing team’s draft needs and working the phones to see who might be trade partners. Maybe you just need to see the seating chart.