Just a Rams-KC masterpiece
No need to have a Super Bowl. I don’t think Monday night’s game can be topped. Mark Keys
Newport Beach
I have been watching a lot of USC games this year, so it was quite a revelation to tune in the Rams-Chiefs game and see how much better the Coliseum looks when it is full. Gerry Swider
Sherman Oaks
What an incredibly innovative and clever move made by the Rams in their Monday night game at the Coliseum. Obviously their regular uniforms didn’t make it back in time from Mexico City, so they had their players dress in yellow pajamas! Cool! #juiceboxesforeveryone Richard Turnage
Burbank
Unrivaled trouble
USC was, obviously, looking ahead to Notre Dame. David Marshall
Santa Monica
This just in: Forest Lawn announced an order from former USC coach, Clay Helton, for a headstone with the inscription: “Lynn Swann still has confidence in me.” William David Stone
Beverly Hills
My fellow Trojans who want to fire Clay Helton should stop focusing on one season and look at the big picture. Helton’s first two seasons are the best first two among all USC coaches. He took over a floundering program and won a South Division championship, a Rose Bowl, and a league championship. Discipline has certainly been an issue, but the two main reasons they aren’t winning is inexperience at quarterback and an enormous number of injuries. That’s the difference between being 5-6 and a respectable 8-3. Randolph Ziskin
Sherman Oaks
After beating USC, coach Kelly is a Chip off the old blocked punt. Jeff Black
Los Angeles
Chip Kelly should take pride in the victory over USC, but maybe it was his foolish pride that kept UCLA from having a better season. Watching loss after loss, many fans criticized his commitment to freshman quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson. The more flak Kelly got, the more stubborn he became. Who knows why he eventually went with Wilson Speight, but now, all of a sudden, Speight’s “a cool customer,” who “doesn’t get fazed,” and has a calmness that “pervades through our offense.” Whew. Mario Valvo
Ventura
There’s another NFL team here?
If I were a newly minted Chargers fan living in SoCal (and I followed the team in the L.A. Times), I’m pretty sure I would be in emergency therapy by now. L.A.
Times sports reporters and columnists are simply brutal to the Chargers ... and they’re 7-3! David Pohlod
Oak Park
The few, the proud, the Chargers fans. Ron Reeve
Glendora
Sweet schedule
How can a college basketball team see how tough it can be playing the likes of St. Francis, Liberty or Presbyterian? I hear UCLA tried to get Taft or Birmingham High, but they were already booked. With all these cupcakes, maybe they should open a pastry shop on campus. Craig London
Encino
Good-bad news
Helene Elliott tugs at the heartstrings with a beautiful story on Wednesday about a wonderful man, Trevor Hendershot, who does a terrific job as an employee of the Ducks and Angels. Then Bill Plaschke writes a gem about Dodgers employee Maria Hartmark, which is another tear-jerker about a lovely person.
On this Thanksgiving week, it’s nice to realize that L.A. Times readers are so blessed that the writers, editors and photographers provide us with truly one of the nation’s greatest sports sections throughout the entire year. You keep us entertained, sometimes making us laugh, sometimes cry, other times rejoice, and other times shake our heads. Thank you for doing such a remarkable job. Charlie Plowman
La Cañada
My family joins others in wishing Maria Hartmark a speedy recovery. What a wonderful article by Bill Plaschke about her and how she has performed her job above and beyond the minimum for the 28 years she has worked at Dodger Stadium and how those she serves appreciate and respect her for it. Yet she is being paid $14 an hour.
Some of those she serves have recently donated generously, but do the Dodgers or Levy Restaurants feel the shame they should feel from paying her that salary? Ben Tenn
Northridge
He said it
At a 2017 news conference, Magic Johnson proclaimed that Lonzo Ball would be the new face of the Lakers. He also directed Lonzo’s attention to the wall that displayed a select group of Laker greats and said “we expect you to have your name placed on that wall.”
If that really happens, it would truly be an act of magic. Gil Moe
Palm Desert
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