Rams play homecoming game in preseason opener with Cowboys

(AP) — 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.

For now fans have to watch a rebuilding Rams team, though with reasons for excitement including explosive young running back Todd Gurley and No. 1 overall draft pick quarterback Jared Goff, who for now will back up starter Case Keenum.

Hip stars like rapper Kendrick Lamar visited the team at training camp, and their games are likely to become a new version of the Lakers' sideline for celebrities.

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.