With temperatures above 13 degrees and a crushing sun and unbecoming of February, the heat is being the great protagonist prior to the Super Bowl that is played this afternoon in Los Angeles between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams.
“It is 13 of February but it looks like July 4”, he ironically on his way to the stadium a Rams fan on the heat in the Californian city.
The surroundings of SoFi Stadium, the innovative and spectacular stadium that hosts the Super Bowl, hours before the game they were a huge football party with thousands and thousands of fans supporting the Rams and Bengals.
T-shirts and caps of the two teams were sold in the streets.
But with the high temperatures, the most required were the bottles of water and cans of beer to cool off under the small shadows of the palm trees.
The streets of Inglewood, the city in Los Angeles County where the stadium is located, were taken over by the Super Bowl .
Barbecues and hotdogs, parking lots at exorbitant prices , the music and the dances, the touts hurrying up their last options, and the Christian preachers, microphone in hand, always present at major sporting events in the United States, were also seen in the prelude to the game.
Víctor was one of those passionate fans who waited for the start of the Super Bowl With a Mexican flag on his back and a wrestling mask, this fan came from Torreón (Mexico) to support his beloved Bengals, who have never won the Super Bowl .
“It’s a totally different environment than a normal seasonal game regular. This is a Super Bowl: you are here saying that your team reached the last instance when people did not think it was going to arrive, ”he explained to Efe.
Víctor was referring to some Bengals who did not appear in the pools but who have been disarming the expectations against them until they reach the final.
“Why not believe in Cincinnati today”, he summed up totally convinced of his possibilities.
The Bengals’ orange and black colors they were in the minority in any case against the blue and yellow of the Rams, favorites in principle for the Super Bowl for playing in their stadium and with the city of Los Angeles devoted to them.
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