Rams' Field Suffers Embarrassing Malfunction
Los Angeles has always been a Dodger town, and a Laker town, and a haven for college basketball and football. The Rams have always played second, third, or even fourth fiddle.
The team left town in 1995 and enjoyed the most success in team history, winning the franchise’s only Super Bowl in St. Louis in 1999.
But the Rams returned to L.A. in 2016 and — in light of the Dodgers’ elimination loss Sunday in the World Series — right now they are not only the hottest team in town, they are the best team in the NFL. They proved that again Sunday, beating the Packers 29-27 to improve to 8-0.
They did a pretty bang up job of covering up the USC logo. pic.twitter.com/MtaY1bDYhr
— Andy Nesbitt (@anezbitt) October 28, 2018
The Rams will soon be moving into a new stadium, but for now they have to share the Los Angeles Coliseum with USC. In Sunday’s win over Green Bay, that was blatantly obvious. You could see the USC logo at midfield beneath the Rams logo.
USC hosted Arizona State on Saturday, losing 38-35.
You could also see USC in large letters in the end zone under the word RAMS.
When you wake up on Sunday wearing Saturday night’s Halloween make up pic.twitter.com/XXQKALcZRA
— The Ringer (@ringer) October 28, 2018
There were also random Pac-12 logos around the field, along with faint college hash marks.
The winner of today’s Packers/Rams game will put themselves in prime position to play Washington State in the Pac-12 Championship Game. pic.twitter.com/LTvaxdSnqx
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) October 28, 2018
To be fair, circumstances made it difficult for the grounds crew to convert the stadium in less than 24 hours.
The grounds crew at the Coliseum had a difficult time changing the field logos after USC’s game yesterday. Fog rolled in overnight creating for wet conditions that did not allow the paint to dry. https://t.co/inJICzHciS pic.twitter.com/p6HncbIW0m
— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) October 28, 2018
ESPN’s Lindsey Thiry reported that fog and wet conditions made it difficult to adequately change the logos in time for the Rams game.
Here’s how it’s usually done.
Field Flip: @USC_Athletics to Rams football ? pic.twitter.com/QKSPQFRw7D
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) November 6, 2016
That’s some pretty impressive work by the grounds crew. Unfortunately, their normally outstanding efforts looked rather amateurish on Sunday.
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