{"id":1079198,"date":"2020-04-07T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1079198"},"modified":"2020-04-07T23:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:48:35","slug":"hbo-faces-scrutiny-over-decision-to-pick-both-rams-chargers-for-hard-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/hbo-faces-scrutiny-over-decision-to-pick-both-rams-chargers-for-hard-knocks\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO met with scrutiny over decision to pick both Rams, Chargers for &#8216;Hard Knocks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were a number of intriguing possibilities that HBO could&#8217;ve picked to appear on &#8220;Hard Knocks,&#8221; and yet, the network went in a completely different direction, likely pandering at the league&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>HBO chose both the Los Angeles NFL teams &#8212; Rams and Chargers &#8212; for some reason. The Rams were literally just on a few years ago, back in 2016, and fans have already seen how they operate.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing: The Rams are opening their new venue &#8212; SoFi Stadium &#8212; this summer, so it&#8217;s highly likely that the NFL begged HBO to pick the Rams to generate hype for the new, state-of-the-art building.<\/p>\n<p>And fans were not happy about it. Check out some of the reactions on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pass. We just did the Rams!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Slamb (@slamb13_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slamb13_\/status\/1247536984135892992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamsNFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RamsNFL<\/a> volunteer? They did it in 2016. Aren\u2019t they exempt?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Schoenbaechler (@Greg603) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Greg603\/status\/1247521127590694912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jared Goff on hard knocks again Smh<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DadLegend1955 (@ShawnEd71978536) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnEd71978536\/status\/1247503906348900352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We completely agree, as the Rams and Chargers&#8217; players don&#8217;t really have all that much character, while other teams &#8212; especially the Bucs and Cardinals &#8212; are better fits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a number of intriguing possibilities that HBO could&#8217;ve picked to appear on &#8220;Hard Knocks,&#8221; and yet, the network&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1079199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037443,703638416,685856492,547148996],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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