Rams fans bowled over by win over pesky 49ers
It doesn’t get any sweeter than the Rams preventing the 49ers from getting to the Super Bowl unless it’s the Dodgers stopping the Giants from advancing in the playoffs.
Russell Hosaka
Torrance
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The biggest play for the Rams to secure a Super Bowl berth occurred the week before when their nemesis (49ers) beat the Packers.
Due to that victory, the Rams avoided playing the NFC championship game at Lambeau Field against you know who. Having to play against Jimmy G instead of Aaron Rodgers was a true blessing.
Wayne Kamiya
El Segundo
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By calling Rams owner Stan Kroenke a “modern-day robber baron,” and making coach Sean McVay “a target of widespread criticism,” Dylan Hernández seems to have forgotten who got L.A. to the Super Bowl. Twice! Guess he misses Georgia Frontiere and Jeff Fisher.
Jim Fredrick Manhattan Beach
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A dropped interception by the 49ers was all that stood between Coach McVay from being a hero or an idiot. David Wilczynski Manhattan Beach
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Rams trip to the Super Bowl? Best staycation ever! Gary B. Ross Beverly Hills
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To the NFL, and to those who are scalping their tickets to the Super Bowl: Want to know why so many of us in Los Angeles were complacent about pro football after the Rams and Raiders left, and are wishy-washy now? We are priced out of attending the big games. Heck, many in this city are priced out of attending regular-season games. But the prices for this year’s big game are just stupid. David Ross
Burbank
Repealing moment
I noticed that almost no one was wearing a mask at the Rams game last Sunday even though L.A. County requires mask wearing for outside events of 5,000 or more. If you’re not going to enforce the rules, then it’s time to stop pretending and get rid of the law.
David Waldowski
Laguna Woods
Statuesque
With the Rams set to play a Super Bowl game at their sparkling new SoFi Stadium, I would like to respectfully suggest they consider a halftime tribute to two former Rams and UCLA players, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, who broke the pro football “color line” in 1946, the year before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
There are several L.A. sports greats who have statues honoring them in front of the arenas they played in and I think a statue of Washington and Strode together, who were perhaps the two most important African American football players of all time for what they accomplished in opening up pro sports for future generations of Black athletes, is highly appropriate.
Doug Weiskopf
Burbank
Languishing Lakers The Lakers season was on full display against the Clippers on Thursday night. Even without LeBron James, this should’ve been an easy win. After all, the Clippers were without three starters: Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and Ivica Zubac. Yet, the same issues haunted the team. Poor shooting. Poor defense. Poor rotations. The Lakers are a bad team. The Lakers are a poorly constructed and poorly coached team.
Frank Vogel will most likely take the fall, but Rob Pelinka should be escorted out of the arena and set sail for an island never to return. Geno Apicella
Placentia
King-sized rebuild
During this lengthy Kings’ rebuild I have been particularly critical of Rob Blake. But it seems as though his pulling the trigger on scooping up dynamic vets like Viktor Arvidsson, Phillip Danault and Andreas Athanasiou were just what was needed. That, along with Todd McLellan’s new system and the emergence of young stars-inthe-making.
It looks like a very heavy lift for any team to be able to beat this team in four, even three, games in any series.
Dan Johnson Salem, Va.
Tennis snub
Shame on the Los Angeles Times Sports section. Pages and pages plus gigantic photos of football and an incredibly small area for the extraordinary final championship game in the Australian Open tennis match between Medvedev and Nadal. After 45 years of religiously watching tennis I have never seen a match of that caliber. I felt profoundly disappointed. Myriam Soler
Los Angeles
Land of Lincoln
So Lincoln Riley claims that after he left Oklahoma he had “zero communication” with Caleb Williams. Apparently, Jaxson Dart entered the transfer portal without knowing Williams would come to USC and the team could have ended up with neither quarterback. Whew! The Trojans are lucky and boy, Riley thinks we’re stupid. Brian Gotta
San Diego
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I realize that getting a nationally prominent coach is a big story — for USC fans.
However, as a UCLA alum, I recall no such hosannas when UCLA appointed Chip Kelly. And as a UCLA alum,
I find the L.A. Times’ USC fanboy bias insulting and appalling. Where is the balance?
It’s not even football season! How can stories on Lincoln Riley and USC’s new quarterback keep leading the whole Sports section?
Seth Chandler
Sigtuna, Sweden
Sensational Skalij
One reader sends along his congratulations on the splendid photos of Wally Skalij in his coverage of Sunday’s NFC championship game. Anyone who has ever held a camera in shooting sports action is in his debt. Gordon Cohn
Long Beach
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