Planning was continuing Tuesday for a celebratory parade in honor of the Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl championship.
The victory parade will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, beginning at the Shrine Auditorium and ending a relatively short distance away at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a rally will be held on the peristyle-end plaza outside the stadium.
The Rams played at the Coliseum from 2016-19 while SoFi Stadium was being built.
Details are still being finalized, but the procession is expected to travel along Jefferson Boulevard to Figueroa Street, then head south to the Coliseum, where the rally will be at noon. The Rams claimed the Super Bowl title Sunday with a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Dodgers and Lakers were denied victory parades following their COVID-19-shortened 2020 championship seasons due to pandemic restrictions, and there have been some suggestions that the teams should be celebrated along with the Rams on Wednesday.
Laker star LeBron James was among those making the suggestion.
“We, Dodgers and Rams should all do a joint parade together!!!!” James tweeted Monday. “With a live concert afterwards to end it!! City of Champions. Congrats once again.”
Thus far, however, there has been no formal decision to include the Lakers and Dodgers in Wednesday’s event.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday the Rams victory capped a triumphant NFL return to the Southland.
“The NFL needed L.A., and L.A. needed the NFL,” Garcetti told reporters in downtown Los Angeles. “It was a broken-heart story. If it was Hollywood, it would have been maybe a rom-com. But at least some sort of romance. But it was our destiny to come back together.”
The mayor thanked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying the league “bet big on L.A., not just once but twice, with two great teams.”