{"id":275497,"date":"2025-10-03T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:06:12","slug":"los-angeles-rams-celebrate-a-decade-back-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275497\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Rams Celebrate a Decade Back in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL team\u2019s history with L.A. dates back to the \u201940s<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SoFi-Stadium-400xauto.webp.webp\" alt=\"Sofi Stadium\" class=\"wp-image-115874\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>The Los Angeles Rams take on the Denver Broncos during Week 16 of the regular 2022 NFL season.Credit: Courtesy Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n<p>This football season marks the 10th year for the Rams back in Los Angeles after a two-decade detour in St. Louis. For a team with such deep roots in the city\u2013 the Rams were L.A.\u2019s first major professional sports franchise, moving from Cleveland to the Coliseum in 1946\u2013 the homecoming was about more than football. It was about reconnecting with history and reigniting a bond between the team and all Angelenos. Owner Stan Kroenke\u2019s bold vision for a new era took shape quickly, with the groundbreaking of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in November 2016. Two months later, the Rams made another transformative move by hiring a 30-year-old Sean McVay and making him the youngest head coach in NFL history. \u201cWhen I first got here, I felt the energy of L.A. right away,\u201d McVay recalls. \u201cThis city has a passion for sports and culture like no other. We wanted to build something that matched that energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McVay delivered a division title in his debut season and had the team in the Super Bowl the next year, losing a close game. The pinnacle came in February 2022, when the Rams won Super Bowl LVI playing in their new stadium \u2014 which has been their home since 2020. \u201cTo be able to win it here, in front of our fans, at SoFi \u2014 it was surreal,\u201d McVay says. \u201cIt felt like all of L.A. was with us that night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Super-Bowl-Champs_Andrew-Whitworth-and-Coach-McVay-400xauto.webp.webp\" alt=\"Los Angeles Rams\" class=\"wp-image-115877\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>Tackle Andrew Whitworth and Coach Sean McVay embrace following the Rams\u2019 win in Super Bowl LVICredit: Courtesy Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n<p>But the Rams\u2019 story in Los Angeles had always been about more than wins. From welcoming the NFL\u2019s first male cheerleaders to launching the Mariachi Rams band, they\u2019ve embraced the city\u2019s diversity. Their commitment to community runs deep, supporting the Watts Rams youth program, partnering with the L.A. Regional Food Bank to provide nearly five million meals and inspiring thousands of students to embrace an active lifestyle through the NFL\u2019s Play 60 Field Days initiative. Since 2016, Rams staff and players have logged more than 15,000 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in their 10th season back, the Rams are still hungry. \u201cWe\u2019ve accomplished a lot, but the standard here is always about what\u2019s next,\u201d McVay says. With Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams and new addition Davante Adams, the future looks bright for a team that came within 13 yards of beating the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in last year\u2019s playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A decade in, one thing is clear: the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/\">Rams<\/a> aren\u2019t just back in L.A., they epitomize L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL team\u2019s history with L.A. dates back to the \u201940s The Los Angeles Rams take on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1318,2961,224,9006,5337,1232,139344,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-275497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-october-2025","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115312275790784566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}