The NFL wild card spherical playoff sport between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams will not happen at SoFi Stadium.
Instead, the 2 groups will play Monday’s scheduled sport at State Farm Stadium, house of the Arizona Cardinals, as wildfires proceed to unfold throughout Southern California, the NFL announced Thursday.
The announcement got here shortly after the Rams canceled participant media availability following Thursday’s apply. A brand new fireplace broke out Thursday within the West Hills neighborhood, an space the place many Rams gamers and employees members stay.
Before Thursday’s announcement, the league stated it wished to maintain Monday night time’s sport between the Vikings and Rams in Los Angeles. However, he additionally had a contingency plan in place in case the scenario in Southern California worsened. By Thursday night, at the least 180,000 residents had been evacuated and 1000’s of constructions had been destroyed.
Monday’s match is among the few that has already been affected by the fires. The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings postponed video games from Wednesday.
Tickets for Monday’s sport might be accessible to Rams season ticket holders at 10pm PT on Friday morning. The common public will be capable to buy tickets two hours later.
In current days the Rams and a number of other gamers have additionally taken to social media to supply their assist to the group.
The Los Angeles Chargers, who will journey to face the Houston Texans on Saturday, pledged $200,000 for fire relief efforts.
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