Los Angeles will honor the Super Bowl champion Rams with a parade Wednesday through the Exposition Park area.
The parade will wind from the Shrine Auditorium on West Jefferson Boulevard to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a rally will be held in the plaza outside the stadium, according to Rams Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff.
A time has not yet been set, and the official route has yet to be announced.
It will mark the first such victory parade since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. No parades were held after the Lakers and Dodgers championship wins in 2020 because of concerns about large gatherings.
Some L.A. sports fans thought Wednesday’s parade should honor all three teams.
“Are we getting that super city of champions parade now?” the Dodgers Nation fan page wrote on Twitter.
City officials had previously said celebrations would be held to honor the 2020 wins, but those plans never came to fruition. Los Angeles entered the first winter surge of COVID-19 not long after the Lakers and Dodgers claimed their titles.
Anaheim resident Marlon Futures said he expects people to treat Wednesday’s parade as a combination event “whether or not the Rams or the City of L.A. mean for it to turn out that way.”
Futures, 33, said he’s thinking of donning a Rams hoodie and a “classic purple-and-gold Lakers snap-back” at the parade to honor more than one team — or possibly buying a Rams Super Bowl hat so he can “rock a throwback Van Exel jersey.”
Lakers star LeBron James agreed: “We, Dodgers and Rams should all do a joint parade together!!!!” he tweeted Monday, adding: “City of Champions.”
Though the Lakers celebrated with a parade in 2010 after a previous championship win, the Dodgers have not had a parade in L.A. since 1988.
Studio City resident Giselle Caren said that she is hoping to gather some friends to attend the event Wednesday and that she will probably wear Dodgers gear.
“I love the Lakers and the Rams — truly special wins — but the Dodgers take my heart,” said Caren, 28.
The Rams on Sunday defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 before 70,048 at SoFi Stadium to win their first Super Bowl title in Los Angeles.
The win marked a dramatic return for professional football in Los Angeles after a long absence. The Los Angeles Lakers, Dodgers, Kings and Sparks have all won multiple world championships.
But not everyone thought the day should be for multiple teams.
“As far as the Dodgers and Lakers are concerned, fair or not, that ship sailed two years ago,” one person tweeted. “Today is Rams’ time.”
