The legendary East L.A. Traditional soccer sport between Roosevelt and Garfield is getting a Tremendous Bowl-like halftime performer.
Following a triumphant post-pandemic-restrictions reintroduction in 2021, the faculties are planning for a blowout occasion this season: an Oct. 21 return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and a halftime efficiency from the Black Eyed Peas.
The worth will probably be $15 for normal admission and $12 at presale for college kids. Parking on the Coliseum is $15. Tickets are accessible on Ticketmaster.
It’s one more present of help from rapper will.i.am to Roosevelt Excessive. The Black Eyed Peas frontman grew up within the Estrada Courts housing venture in Boyle Heights, and his i.am Angel Basis, based on its web site, “is very dedicated to remodeling will.i.am’s hometown of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles.”
The rapper’s basis has a collegiate readiness program that “gives social and tutorial help” to Roosevelt Excessive college students and partnered with the Los Angeles Unified Faculty District to begin a robotics program final yr, based on the muse’s web site.
Garfield coach Lorenzo Hernandez stated final fall that longstanding attendance on the Traditional had dwindled from about 25,000 to 10,000. With the Black Eyed Peas acting at halftime and the environment of the Coliseum, nevertheless, faculty directors are hoping to additional reinvigorate an annual occasion that’s been performed since 1925. For the Coliseum, the sport comes as a part of its “Coliseum Eternally” celebration, marking 100 years for the reason that venue opened.
The possibility to listen to “I Gotta Feeling” in individual is perhaps incentive sufficient, however the on-field matchup will carry loads of intrigue as properly. Final yr, popping out of a yr that devastated each faculty communities, was a spectacle that led to a 22-19 Roosevelt win — the Tough Riders’ first Traditional victory in a decade.
“I’m going to enter King Taco, I’m going to have myself a burrito, I’m going to put on my ugly yellow shirt and I’m simply going to smile on the Garfield followers,” coach Aldo Parral stated after final yr’s win. “As a result of you recognize what, hey, I earned it.”
Momentum seems to have swung in Roosevelt’s favor, which has gone 5-0 to begin this season behind a fine-tuned model of its customary double wing speeding assault. Garfield will counter with its personal floor sport, led by junior Damian Cornejo, who already has scored 10 touchdowns.
Hernandez stated: “That is going to be the largest ever assembly with two groups taking part in properly, an historic venue and the Black Eyed Peas halftime present. All for $15.”
Helen Sanchez, the Traditional’s media coordinator, stated will.i.am and the Angel Basis could have a pregame presentation earlier than the varsity sport. Roosevelt alum Lynn Cain, a former working again for the Atlanta Falcons and can.i.am.'s uncle, will oversee the pregame coin toss.
The junior varsity sport will begin at 3:30 p.m. and the varsity sport at 7:30 p.m.
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