Rams’ exhibition opener a homecoming game
Technically, the Los Angeles Rams’ game Saturday with the Dallas Cowboys is just a preseason opener at a temporary home for a relocating team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 11 years.
[...] that temporary home is also the team’s traditional home, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where they’ll play as the host team for the first time in 36 years, giving the day huge sentimental and symbolic importance for fans.
Unlike Brooklyn when it lost its Dodgers, or Cleveland when it lost its original Browns, fans didn’t shed many tears when the Rams skipped the L.A. area for St. Louis.
“I was heartbroken when they left,” said Dan Salcedo, 40, who wore an old-school Rams Jack Youngblood jersey as he attended a team scrimmage at the Coliseum last week.
Plenty of former USC players and coaches, including Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, will get to return to the Coliseum, which the Trojans call home.
The Rams played at the Coliseum — and won four NFL championships there — from 1946 until 1980.