Following their Super Bowl win on Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams will be honored with a victory parade stretching from the Shrine Auditorium to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday. The parade will travel down Jefferson Boulevard to Figueroa Street, through Exposition Park before ending with a rally on Bill Robertson Lane, right outside the Coliseum.
The Rams played at the Coliseum from 2016 to 2019 before moving to the $5 billion SoFi Stadium, which was inaugurated in September 2020.
The parade will start at 11 a.m. at the Shrine Auditorium and will run for approximately 45 minutes until it reaches the Coliseum. The rally will take place from about noon to 1 p.m.
Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours will be required to attend the rally.
The parade marks the first victory parade for a Los Angeles sports team since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Both the Dodgers and Lakers won championships in 2020 but did not have parades due to COVID-19 safety precautions.
This is the first major sports league victory march parade in Los Angeles since the pandemic started, and there are three teams to celebrate. There are some concerns about safety and potential COVID-19 spread, as large crowds are expected to congregate in the University Park and Exposition Park neighborhoods tomorrow.
The parade also brings disruption to the University of Southern California, with some classes pivoting to Zoom tomorrow due to potential difficulties students are likely to face getting on campus.
In an email to the community, Provost Zukoski stated that USC will remain open tomorrow, “to the greatest extent possible.”
According to USC Transportation, Figueroa Street will be closed between Adams Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Jefferson Boulevard will be closed between Figueroa Street and Hoover Street. Traffic officials will begin closing these streets at 8:00 a.m., with all closures likely to be in place by 9:00 a.m.
All university entrances along the parade route will be closed tomorrow. The university is recommending students who come on-campus tomorrow enter on the Vermont Street side of the school. USC Transportation will post specific entry point closures on their website and they recommend that all students coming on campus tomorrow arrive before 8 a.m. to avoid significant delays.
In a statement to Annenberg Media, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority recommends commuters who normally ride Metro Bus service in the area to take the Metro Rail, located a short distance from bus stops on closed streets.
“The Metro E (Expo) Line train has two convenient stations along the parade route (Jefferson/USC and Expo Park/USC) and the J (Silver) Line express bus’ 37th St/USC Station is a short 5-minute walk to Figueroa St,” the statement read.
Attendees of the parade are also encouraged to park at stations along the Metro system, with thousands of free and paid parking spaces available to accommodate the crowd tomorrow.
Despite these concerns, the Coliseum is gearing up to welcome back the Rams to celebrate their very first Super Bowl win since returning to Los Angeles five years ago.
“The Coliseum is excited to host the Rams Super Bowl Victory Celebration...having been the home field for the team for 38 years, and the site of their last championship win in the City of LA in 1951,” Coliseum general manager Joe Furin said. “For Angelenos, decades of memories and the desire for a championship will come together once again for the Rams at the Coliseum!”
The parade will feature appearances from Rams players and coaches, floats and specialty vehicles, and on-stage entertainment. It is free and open to the public to attend.