Mrs. Stafford this week urged local fans not to give up their tickets for Monday night’s wild-card game at SoFi Stadium to invaders from the state next door.
“My plea,” she wrote on Instagram with a clip from her podcast, “The Morning After”: “Please don’t sell your tickets to Arizona fans.”
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The Rams surely don’t want a repeat of Week 18 when 49ers fans took over the place. It got so bad for the home team, Kelly Stafford said, that her husband, LA quarterback Matthew Stafford, had to go to a silent count at home, as if the offense was playing in Santa Clara.
“It was a tough environment for us to communicate in really the whole second half,” Matthew Stafford told reporters Monday, per ESPN.com.
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Sunday’s game drew an announced crowd of 74,447. ESPN estimated that 49ers fans were in the majority.
“I’m not going to lie; I’ve never seen so many of the opposing team’s fans at a game,” Kelly Stafford said. “And we came from Detroit, and there were a lot of good-traveling teams there, but that was wild.”
The Rams (12-5) blew a 17-0 halftime lead and eventually lost 27-24 in overtime, but they still won the NFC West because the Cardinals lost to the Seahawks. That combination got Los Angeles a home playoff game against Arizona.
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One bit of hope for the Rams: LA-area residents may find there isn’t much of an incentive to selling. Game tickets were going for as low as $70 on Ticketmaster’s NFL Ticket Exchange and $79 on StubHub on Thursday night.
