INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 09: Deebo Samuel #19 of the San Francisco 49ers celebrates with teammates after scoring a landing within the third quarter towards the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on January 09, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Photograph by Joe Scarnici/Getty Photographs)
UPDATE: As of Monday morning, the message warning out-of-market followers has disappeared from the Rams’ Ticketmaster website.
The 49ers Devoted has the Rams apprehensive.
Los Angeles hasn’t but secured a spot within the NFC Championship Recreation however the crew is taking steps already to maintain Niners followers out of SoFi Stadium within the occasion it hosts the sport subsequent weekend.
The Rams are proscribing public ticket gross sales for what could be an all-West convention title sport to Southern California residents.
On the NFL’s ticketing website, Ticketmaster, the Rams left this discover for guests looking for to purchase tickets to the sport:
“Public gross sales to the sport at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA will likely be restricted to residents of the Better Los Angeles area. Residency will likely be based mostly on bank card billing handle at checkout.”
Sorry, lifelong Rams followers from St. Louis.
Gross sales to different areas will likely be canceled with out discover and refunded, the location says.
The Athletic’s David Lombardi seen the be aware and tweeted it.
The Devoted has given the Rams cause for concern: The Week 18 sport between the groups featured no less than one-third of the SoFi Stadium stands crammed with pink. It could have been nearer to half the stadium.
Niners followers additionally flocked to the LA Coliseum when the Rams performed there after their return from St. Louis.
After securing a playoff berth in entrance of that surprisingly pink crowd, the Niners had been once more greeted by a large pleasant contingent at their wild-card victory in Dallas. The Niner Gang was much less prevalent Saturday evening in Inexperienced Bay, the place the followers personal the crew and the air felt like zero levels.
Clearly, the Rams count on a resurgence of Devoted subsequent weekend.
This isn’t the primary time a crew has restricted playoff tickets by location: The Seahawks banned gross sales to California residents within the 2013 title sport towards the 49ers. Since, that has develop into frequent apply, however it might be the primary occasion of doing so inside a state.