The Los Angeles Rams are working around the clock to manage the logistics of moving a playoff game from SoFi Stadium to Arizona due to the wildfires in the area, and the Cardinals are doing whatever they can to make the situation a little bit easier.
Not only is the game being played at the Cardinals’ stadium, but the Rams are using the team’s practice facility on Saturday for a walkthrough and its final practice before Monday’s game.
Additionally, the Cardinals pulled an incredibly classy gesture Friday by sending two of the team’s planes to help transport the Rams, staff members and their families from Los Angeles to Arizona.
The Cardinals are sending two of the team’s 777 planes to Los Angeles this afternoon, picking up the Rams team, its staff, their families, six dogs and two cats — yes, six dogs and two cats, per an official — and bringing them to Arizona tonight.
Cardinals are turning over their… pic.twitter.com/pdCeBFVHuN
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 10, 2025
The Rams’ travel party includes 450 people in total, 350 of whom are leaving on Friday night. That includes players, coaches, family members, six dogs, and two cats.
That’s a large group who now have to travel after originally expecting to be at home in Inglewood, and the Cardinals are helping to make all of this as seamless as possible.
On the decision for the team to leave tonight, Rams president Kevin Demoff indicated they didn’t necessarily have to, but VP of Football & Business Administration Tony Pastoors said “hope is not a strategy.”
Demoff said it was right decision for the org and players to ease that…
— Stu Jackson (@StuJRams) January 10, 2025