Rams report, 5/17: rookies absent from OTAs

* The NFLPA isn't exactly helping the Rams get off the ground in 2012. The Rams are missing three rookies - Brian Quick, Isaiah Pead and Chris Givens - at this week's OTAs because they're at the NFLPA's Rookie Premiere weekend in Los Angeles. They're mandated by the league to be there, according to Jeff Fisher, who understandably isn't real happy about it, though there's nothing he can do about it.

The players are participating in community events today. However, I hope participation in tomorrow's event is not mandatory. I don't really need to be hearing that a Rams' second-round pick tore an Achilles trying to make a play in a flag football game. It is beyond idiotic that this event was scheduled during the already-limited amount of time teams have for OTAs and the NFL and the union should correct this scheduling conflict posthaste for future seasons.

* More importantly, news is out this morning that St. Louis has been awarded an expansion franchise in the Lingerie Football League that will open play in spring 2013. Tryouts will be on June 17th for the so-far unnamed team, which will play its home games in the (irony alert) St. Charles Family Arena.

Naturally, these teams don't have your normal sports nicknames. The league's got the Seattle Mist, Los Angeles Temptation (yay! St. Louis won't lose a team to L.A. in this league [or vice versa]), Chicago Bliss, Philadelphia Passion, Baltimore Charm and possibly my two favorite nicknames in sports history: the Orlando Fantasy and the Vegas Sin. RamView has only cruel jokes for the new team also announced today for Omaha, but votes for nicknaming St. Louis' new team the "Kiss" (if Gene Simmons doesn't object). Seems like there's a lot you could do with that logo. Some of it even clean!

So, let the "Mound City" jokes begin, and if anybody learns where to send the new team a resume for a scouting position, please pass that info along to RamView.

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