{"id":98591,"date":"2022-02-13T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=98591"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:06:38","slug":"sofis-wavering-support-system-doesnt-concern-la-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/sofis-wavering-support-system-doesnt-concern-la-rams\/","title":{"rendered":"SoFi\u2019s wavering support system doesn\u2019t concern LA Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Erin McMahon<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Medill Reports<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 Super Bowl LVI could feel like an away game for the Los Angeles Rams, and not just because they are the designated visiting team. With the curse of SoFi Stadium, or the lack of blue and yellow supporters for the teams who play there, home-turf advantage isn\u2019t necessarily on their side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what is the team doing to stay engaged?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, it isn\u2019t a certain pregame playlist or ritual. Heading into the Super Bowl, he said his approach will be the same as any other game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI like to listen to the opposing fans scream at you, or the home fans scream,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cThat\u2019s what kind of helps me lock in the most, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visiting-team fans have become Stafford\u2019s motivation. The team has found ways to modify game day tactics in situations where lack of energy from the crowd was an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just like to experience the whole thing, right?\u201d Stafford said. \u201cIt just helps me kind of get in the moment and understand what I\u2019m here to do. I\u2019m here to play a football game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NFC championship at SoFi resembled more of a home game at Levi\u2019s Stadium for the San Francisco 49ers than it did a home game for the Rams. After the Week 18 matchup against the Niners, Kelly Stafford, wife of Matthew Stafford, was determined to bring in more Rams representation at SoFi. But, even after buying \u201ca good amount\u201d of tickets and distributing them to fans, the arena was still a sea of red jerseys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rams coach Sean McVay said his team needs to use past games as motivation going forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think any team that gets themselves in the position to be here, usually there\u2019s some form of adversity where they have to come and find that resilience, that mental toughness and that physical toughness,\u201d McVay said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given the more \u201ccorporate\u201d atmosphere of the Super Bowl, Stafford said the team understands the event will host a more neutral crowd than a regular season game. However, given SoFi\u2019s pattern of a heavy opposing team presence for both Rams and Chargers games, it\u2019s hard to know what to expect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angelenos seem to think the city is fully behind the team. They believe in the power of the venue\u2019s local access and the team\u2019s lineage in LA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSoFi is so new, everyone wants to come to the newer stadium,\u201d said Rams fan Cory Buckner as he sat outside Tom Bergin\u2019s, the oldest Rams bar in LA. \u201cIt just so happens that the newer stadium is home to the Rams, who are in the Super Bowl, so I think it\u2019s going to play in their favor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Erin McMahon is a graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erinamcmahon\">@erinamcmahon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Erin McMahon Medill Reports LOS ANGELES \u2014 Super Bowl LVI could feel like an away game for the Los Angeles Rams, and not just because they are the designated visiting team. With the curse of SoFi Stadium, or the lack of blue and yellow supporters for the teams who play there, home-turf advantage isn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":819,"featured_media":98604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5201,31,5212,5182,5155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medill-explores-2022","category-sports","category-la-sports-2022","category-super-bowl-lvi","category-winter-2022"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SoFi\u2019s wavering support system doesn\u2019t concern LA Rams - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ram&#039;s House has experienced inconsistencies in fan attendance, so the team has found other ways to motivate themselves.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/sofis-wavering-support-system-doesnt-concern-la-rams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SoFi\u2019s wavering support system doesn\u2019t concern LA Rams - 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