Rams, Chargers both have their work cut out for them in Los Angeles

Rams, Chargers both have their work cut out for them in Los Angeles

Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Rams rookies are scheduled to report for training camp by Wednesday afternoon. Three days later, the entire team will take the field for practice on the campus of UC Irvine. The Los Angeles Chargers will do the same about five miles north the following morning, practicing for the first time from Jack Hammett Sports Complex in Costa Mesa, California.

By the end of the week, these two teams will finally -- almost literally -- become neighbors.

And then the fight for control of the Los Angeles market can officially begin.

The Rams have history in L.A., both recent and deep-rooted. They played here for 49 consecutive seasons, from 1946 to 1994, winning a championship and making 21 playoff appearances along the way. They also returned before anybody else, the first NFL franchise in the nation's second-largest media market in 22 years. But the Chargers -- on paper, at least -- seemingly have the better team.

"I mean, that's just facts," Eric Dickerson, the opinionated Hall of Famer and former Rams running back, said in a phone conversation. "They have a more exciting football team."

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