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Fisher a fan of Governor’s Cup
28 minutes ago • By Jim Thomas jthomas@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8197

OK, there’s no I-70 World Series this year. But we do have the vaunted Governor’s Cup this Sunday when the Rams travel to Kansas City for a noon kickoff with the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.

“It’s in the building and it happens to be my favorite trophy in the building,” Rams coach Jeff Fisher deadpanned. “I’m not real fond of the Super Bowl trophy in the building. Yeah, so we’re going to do everything we can to keep it.”

Obviously that Super Bowl trophy came at his expense, a 23-16 Rams victory over Fisher’s Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.

So each morning, when Fisher walks past the trophy case in the Rams Park lobby, does he look at the Governor’s Cup or the Lombardi Trophy?

“Both of these trophies have been awarded on past performance, so I would take the Governor’s,” he said, smiling.

Fisher is 1-0 in Governor’s Cup games as Rams head coach, having won a preseason game 31-17 over the Chiefs in 2012.

The Chiefs are 10-9 overall in Governor’s Cup games against the “St. Louis” Rams _ 5-0 in regular season contests and 5-9 in exhibition meetings.

Against the St. Louis football Cardinals, the Chiefs were 16-7-2 overall _ 2-1-1 in regular-season contests and 14-6-1 in preseason play.

Perhaps fitting since the Big Red moved after the season to Arizona, the last Cup game played by Bill Bidwill’s squad took place in Memphis during the 1987 strike year. The Chiefs won that one, 13-10.

Because the teams play in different conferences and play each other only once every four years in the regular season, it’s almost impossible to build any kind of in-state rivalry. And Fisher concedes even a regular-season contest is no I-70 series.

“I think there’s a significant difference,” he said. “What we’re doing is we’re playing a playoff team from last year that played very, very, well in the AFC West. I think they’re a much better team than their record (3-3) right now.

“They are loaded with talent. Andy’s (Reid) doing a great job there. The quarterback (Alex Smith) is playing very well and it becomes our biggest challenge thus far because it’s our next game. We’ll talk about whoever gets the trophy and what that means when the game’s over.”
If the Rams move to San Diego, they will have to give up the Governor’s Cup