Not lengthy after the Rams clinched their spot as the best remaining seed within the NFC playoffs Sunday afternoon, Melissa Whitworth tweeted a plea to the L.A. space fanbase.
“In the event you @RamsNFL followers need to promote your tickets - I’ll purchase them,” the spouse of Rams sort out Andrew Whitworth wrote. “Simply DO NOT promote them to the opposite workforce PLEASE!”
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than retired San Francisco 49ers sort out Joe Staley, whose former workforce simply occurs to be dealing with the Rams with a Tremendous Bowl berth on the road, despatched out a barely reworded model of Melissa Whitworth’s tweet.
“In the event you @RamsNFL followers need to promote your tickets - I’ll purchase them,” Staley wrote. “Simply DO NOT promote them to your personal workforce PLEASE!”
Simply because the fourth-seeded Rams are enjoying host to the NFC championship recreation at SoFi Stadium on Sunday doesn’t imply they may have home-field benefit in opposition to the sixth-seeded 49ers.
If the fan turnout is something because it was for the Jan. 9 recreation between the identical groups on the identical location, the Rams may not get a lot, if any, increase from the group at their 70,000-seat palace.
An abundance of 49ers followers traveled almost 400 miles to Inglewood that day to cheer on their beloved workforce because it defeated the Rams, for the sixth straight time, and secured a spot within the playoffs as a wild-card workforce.
After the sport, coach Sean McVay commented that he noticed “plenty of pink” jerseys on the recreation and quarterback Matthew Stafford mentioned his offense had bother speaking at instances due to the noise from the visiting followers.
Stafford’s spouse, Kelly Stafford, mentioned on her podcast that her husband was compelled to make use of a silent rely throughout that recreation whereas visiting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was not.
“I’ve by no means seen so most of the opposing workforce’s followers at a recreation, and we got here from Detroit,” she mentioned.
So it’s no marvel why Staley and different present and former 49ers gamers have taken to Twitter to encourage one other such takeover of the Rams’ dwelling this week.
Retired 49ers operating again Frank Gore wrote he would be part of Staley in shopping for all of the Rams followers’ tickets, including the hashtag #StraightCash.
Linebacker Fred Warner tweeted, “Want a lot of Crimson in Sofi Sunday!!”
“Can’t wait to see our Trustworthy present out in SoFi!” 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk added.
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