One of my passions other than sports is politics. I love how politicians can spin almost anything to their advantage.

Cut popular programs? It’s only because you were committed to making the tough choices and being fiscally responsible for the good of the state.

Raise taxes? It was the only way to save programs that serve the neediest. Besides, rich people pay the most of it.

Caught cheating? It’s an opportunity to refocus on the things that really mean the most and come back a new and better man.

I’ve made the argument several times that following politics and following sports are really the same thing. It’s just the nuances of the game that change.

And so after the Rams’ 36-17 drubbing by Green Bay on Sunday, I decided to mix my two loves, sports and politics, and describe all the terrible things about the Rams through the lens of a political spin master.

Reality: After the Lions’ win over Washington, the Rams now have the longest active losing streak in the NFL at 13.

Spin: Even if the Rams do match the Lions’ streak at 19, they still wouldn’t go winless this year, so they’d still be better than the Lions.

Reality: Laurent Robinson is out for the season with a broken tibia.

Spin: Now Donnie Avery has a chance to prove he can actually adapt to the Rams’ new offense and be more than just a decoy for Keenan Burton.

Reality: At 0-3, Steve Spagnuolo joins Chiefs head coach Todd Haley and Buccaneers head coach Raheem Morris as three of only 32 head coaches in NFL history without a career win.

Spin: In Tom Landry’s first year as a head coach as a 36-year-old with Dallas in 1960, the Cowboys went 0-11-1.

In Chuck Noll’s first year in Pittsburgh, the Steelers won their first game, then lost their next 16.

Bill Parcells went 3-12-1 his first year with the New York Giants.

I’m not saying Spagnuolo turns out to be any of these guys, but slow starts in year one with terrible franchises do not preclude long-term success.

Reality: The Rams lost starting quarterback Marc Bulger.

Spin: This is a great opportunity to see if Kyle Boller should be the “veteran playing ahead of the star rookie quarterback for a few games” next year.

Reality: The Rams have scored only 24 points all season, worst in the league. If they kept their current offensive pace, they would finish with 128 points scored, the lowest total ever in a full 16-game schedule and only three more than the famed 0-14 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Spin: With Kyle Boller in the game, the Rams scored 17 points in the final three quarters on Sunday. If he were to continue that pace for the remaining 52 quarters this season, they would end up with roughly 318 points, which would have ranked a somewhat less-reprehensible 24th last season.

(Sorry. Not a whole lot you can do with do with an offense that makes you go back to one of the worst teams in NFL history for a historical comparison. That’s the political equivalent of having a gay love affair with your chauffer and have your wife go on Oprah. You’re just screwed at that point.)

Reality: With a next four of at San Francisco, Minnesota, at Jacksonville, and Indianapolis, the Rams have a 99 percent chance of going 0-7. And now the Week Eight trip to Detroit doesn’t look so winnable any more.

Spin: Ummmm…The St. Louis Cardinals are in the playoffs?

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