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Fisher Can End Rams' Revolving Door

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nobody does news conferences quite like the Rams. Man, if practice makes perfect, they could lead the NFL in giving news conferences. Hiring coaches. Firing coaches. Hiring general managers. Firing general managers. No one does grim-faced regret or wide-eyed promise better than this one-time championship franchise fallen on such hard times.

Of course, there's only one problem with this. In the NFL, they don't give out championship hardware for news conferences. But on Tuesday afternoon at Rams Park, the organization filled the main auditorium for what could very well be the long-awaited news conference to end all news conferences. The hiring of Jeff Fisher as the Rams' 26th full-time head coach could finally be the sort of news conference that does actually lead to championships...

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