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		<title>Hometown Cruise Ship Ruby Princess Debuts at Port of San Francisco for Collection of Cruises to California Coast, Mexico, Hawaii, Panama Canal &#038; Alaska</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The cruise ship will be sailing out of the port of san francisco to various sought after destinations including Mexico, Hawaiithe California Coast, Alaska and the Panama Canal on five- to 15-day cruises available for booking through 2023. &#8220;Princess is proud to have our sixth MedallionClass ship back to provide sought-after cruise vacations,&#8221; said John &#8230;</p>
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<p>The cruise ship will be sailing out of the port of <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> to various sought after destinations including <span class="xn-location">Mexico</span>, <span class="xn-location">Hawaii</span>the California Coast, <span class="xn-location">Alaska</span> and the Panama Canal on five- to 15-day cruises available for booking through 2023.  </p>
<p>&#8220;Princess is proud to have our sixth MedallionClass ship back to provide sought-after cruise vacations,&#8221; said <span class="xn-person">John Padgett</span>, Princess Cruises president.  &#8220;It&#8217;s inspiring to see guests enjoying real vacations again, and to watch our teammates deliver such meaningful and memorable Princess vacations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ruby Princess offers nearly 900 balconies from which to view the world, an array of entertainment options including Movies Under the Stars and original musical productions, sumptuous dining options from Crown Grill to Sabatini&#8217;s Italian Trattoria and exciting new top-deck dining venues including Slice Pizzeria and Coffee &#038; Cones.  Guests can also relax and renew with rejuvenating spa treatments, the tranquility of The Sanctuary, a top-deck retreat reserved just for adults and a state-of-the-art fitness center.</p>
<p>Earlier this month another Princess cruise ship, Majestic Princess, arrived in <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> for an overnight port call, marking the first cruise to bring guests to <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> since the industry break.  Long-time partners from the Port of <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> welcomed the cruise line back, recognizing the financial impact to local businesses.  Now, with Ruby Princess&#8217; arrival as the city&#8217;s hometown cruise ship, small and family-owned waterfront establishments will continue to benefit.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Port of <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> is proud to be the home port of Ruby Princess,&#8221; said <span class="xn-person">Elaine Forbes</span>Executive Director of the Port of <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span>.  &#8220;For over fifty years Princess Cruises has sailed from the Port of <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> connecting our local merchants, Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf, PIER 39 and our iconic City to communities all-around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Princess MedallionClass vacations deliver the ultimate in effortless, personalized cruising.  It begins with the Medallion<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />, a quarter-sized, wearable device that enables everything from touch-free boarding to locating loved ones anywhere on the ship, as well as enhanced service like having whatever guests need, delivered directly to them, wherever they are on the ship.</p>
<p>In addition, guests can share their favorite cruise moments using MedallionNet, the best WiFi at sea, and also stay connected with friends and family back home, work remotely anywhere on the ship, quickly post content and stream favorite movies and shows. </p>
<p>Princess Cruises sailings onboard Ruby Princess are available for guests who have received their final dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days prior to the beginning of the cruise and have proof of vaccination.  All fully vaccinated guests must also produce a negative, medically observed COVID-19 test (PCR or antigen) taken within two days of their embarkation on all Princess sailings. </p>
<p>For the latest Princess COVID-19 health protocols, please visit https://www.princess.com/plan/cruise-with-confidence/cruise-health/covid-19-guest-protocols/.</p>
<p>Additional information about Princess Cruises is available through a professional travel advisor, by calling 1-800-PRINCESS (1-800-774-6237), or by visiting the company&#8217;s website at http://www.princess.com/.</p>
<p>Editors&#8217; note: <br class="dnr"/>High-resolution photos of Ruby Princess in <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> can be downloaded here. </p>
<p>About Princess Cruises:   <br class="dnr"/>One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises is the world&#8217;s leading international premium cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 14 modern cruise ships, carrying two million guests each year to 380 destinations around the globe, including the <span class="xn-location">Caribbean</span>, <span class="xn-location">Alaska</span>Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, <span class="xn-location">Europe</span>, <span class="xn-location">South America</span>, <span class="xn-location">Australia</span>/<span class="xn-location">New Zealand</span>the South Pacific, <span class="xn-location">Hawaii</span>, <span class="xn-location">Asia</span>, <span class="xn-location">Canada</span>/New England, Antarctica, and World Cruises.  A team of professional destination experts have curated 170 itineraries, ranging in length from three to 111 days and Princess Cruises is continuously recognized as &#8220;Best Cruise Line for Itineraries.&#8221;  In 2017 Princess Cruises, with parent company Carnival Corporation, introduced MedallionClass Vacations enabled by the Medallion device, the vacation industry&#8217;s most advanced wearable device, provided free to each guest sailing on a MedallionClass ship.  The award-winning innovation offers the fastest way to an effortless personalized vacation guests giving more time to do the things they love most.  The company is part of Carnival Corporation &#038; plc (NYSE/LSE:CCL; NYSE:CUK).     </p>
<p>In line with the latest advice from health officials about COVID-19, Princess Cruises is currently enhancing health and safety protocols with input from medical experts and government bodies and assessing how they may impact future itineraries.  Actual offerings may vary from what is displayed in marketing materials.  Click on the following links to stay updated on current Cruise Updates and Health &#038; Safety protocols.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CHICAGO &#8211; Entering Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears, it was fair to ask if Jimmy Garoppolo made his final start as the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in the same location where he made his first: his hometown of Chicago. With the Niners in the middle of a four-game losing streak and &#8230;</p>
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<p>CHICAGO &#8211; Entering Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears, it was fair to ask if Jimmy Garoppolo made his final start as the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in the same location where he made his first: his hometown of Chicago.</p>
<p>With the Niners in the middle of a four-game losing streak and rookie quarterback Trey Lance returning from a sprained left knee, another loss combined with fights from Garoppolo could have seen Lance join the line-up at some point, maybe next Week.</p>
<p>Instead, Garoppolo put together perhaps his best overall performance of the season in front of more than 100 friends and family from the Chicago area he grew up in, and the Niners improved to 3-4 with a 33-22 win at Soldier Field .</p>
<p>&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  “Every game does, but when you go back to your hometown it just feels different.  Landing at the airport, getting into the city, all the familiarity, all the good stuff, it&#8217;s just a special feeling.  It&#8217;s a good day. &#8220;</p>
<p>Not only was it a good day, it was a necessary day for Garoppolo, who weathered last week&#8217;s battles in a rain-soaked loss to the Indianapolis Colts.  After a few early drops from his receivers, Garoppolo hit receiver Deebo Samuel for a 50-yard stroke to set up a field goal just before half-time.</p>
<p>That deal seemed to ease things up as Garoppolo finished 17 of 28 for 322 yards without interceptions for a pass rating of 100.6.  He added a couple of roaring touchdowns, the first multi-score game on the floor.  According to ESPN Stats &#038; Information research, Garoppolo is the third player in franchise history to throw 300 yards and score multiple points in a game, along with Steve Young and Jeff Garcia.</p>
<p>All of this came after Garoppolo&#8217;s two interceptions in last week&#8217;s 30:18 loss to the Colts.  That performance made the drumbeat louder for Lance, even as coach Kyle Shanahan declared Garoppolo to be this week&#8217;s starter on Monday.</p>
<p>Despite Lance&#8217;s return to the backup role, he didn&#8217;t snap a shot of the bears.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to be on the safe side with the packages for him this week,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;It was his first week back so I wouldn&#8217;t just put him in there just to do that kind of thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Garoppolo underscored the first of his roaring touchdowns &#8211; a broken game that should go to Samuel &#8211; with an emphatic spike.  After his second goal, Garoppolo uncorked a throw in the stands, the first time since a league win in Seattle at the end of the 2019 season.</p>
<p>&#8220;My college roommates were in that end zone, so hopefully one of them got it,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  &#8220;It was just so much emotion. I&#8217;m not used to capturing it right from the start, so it was pretty cool when it happened.&#8221;</p>
<p>For all of these efforts, Shanahan awarded Garoppolo a cue-ball, a train that caused loud cheers from a cheerful Niners&#8217; locker room.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he got home in front of his fans, he had his back to the wall just like everyone else in our building, but it was great to see him show up and play like he did today,&#8221; said Shanahan.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the only ball Shanahan handed out on Sunday.  The other went to someone else who made an even more important birth on Saturday night: punter Mitch Wishnowsky&#8217;s wife, Maddie, who gave birth to the couple&#8217;s first child in Northern California.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave Maddie one because I heard she was very tough,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;And we kept checking her, he said he couldn&#8217;t eat, he vomited, he was so nervous he didn&#8217;t get one, she got one.&#8221;</p>
<p>After giving birth to his daughter, Wishnowsky flew to Chicago on Sunday morning and arrived around 7 a.m.  Wishnowsky, however, did his usual holding duties.</p>
<p>&#8220;Poor Mitch had to fly all the way out of here and only hold balls for field goals,&#8221; said center Alex Mack with a laugh.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all of the news from Sunday&#8217;s game was happy for the 49ers.  Free Safety Jimmie Ward was eliminated in the fourth quarter with tight quadriceps that could hold him out for a while.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty big concern,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know yet, but when you talk about pulling a quad, it&#8217;s a lot like pulling a hamstring, so we&#8217;ll see if that is the case.&#8221;</p>
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<p>CHICAGO &#8211; Entering Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears, it was fair to ask if Jimmy Garoppolo made his final start as the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in the same location where he made his first: his hometown of Chicago.</p>
<p>With the Niners in the middle of a four-game losing streak and rookie quarterback Trey Lance returning from a sprained left knee, another loss combined with fights from Garoppolo could have seen Lance join the line-up at some point, maybe next Week.</p>
<p>Instead, Garoppolo put together perhaps his best overall performance of the season in front of more than 100 friends and family from the Chicago area he grew up in, and the Niners improved to 3-4 with a 33-22 win at Soldier Field .</p>
<p>&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  “Every game does, but when you go back to your hometown it just feels different.  Landing at the airport, getting into the city, all the familiarity, all the good stuff, it&#8217;s just a special feeling.  It&#8217;s a good day. &#8220;</p>
<p>Not only was it a good day, it was a necessary day for Garoppolo, who weathered last week&#8217;s battles in a rain-soaked loss to the Indianapolis Colts.  After a few early drops from his receivers, Garoppolo hit receiver Deebo Samuel for a 50-yard stroke to set up a field goal just before half-time.</p>
<p>That deal seemed to ease things up as Garoppolo finished 17 of 28 for 322 yards without interceptions for a pass rating of 100.6.  He added a couple of roaring touchdowns, the first multi-score game on the floor.  According to ESPN Stats &#038; Information research, Garoppolo is the third player in franchise history to throw 300 yards and score multiple points in a game, along with Steve Young and Jeff Garcia.</p>
<p>All of this came after Garoppolo&#8217;s two interceptions in last week&#8217;s 30:18 loss to the Colts.  That performance made the drumbeat louder for Lance, even as coach Kyle Shanahan declared Garoppolo to be this week&#8217;s starter on Monday.</p>
<p>Despite Lance&#8217;s return to the backup role, he didn&#8217;t snap a shot of the bears.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to be on the safe side with the packages for him this week,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;It was his first week back so I wouldn&#8217;t just put him in there just to do that kind of thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Garoppolo underscored the first of his roaring touchdowns &#8211; a broken game that should go to Samuel &#8211; with an emphatic spike.  After his second goal, Garoppolo uncorked a throw in the stands, the first time since a league win in Seattle at the end of the 2019 season.</p>
<p>&#8220;My college roommates were in that end zone, so hopefully one of them got it,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  &#8220;It was just so much emotion. I&#8217;m not used to capturing it right from the start, so it was pretty cool when it happened.&#8221;</p>
<p>For all of these efforts, Shanahan awarded Garoppolo a cue-ball, a train that caused loud cheers from a cheerful Niners&#8217; locker room.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he got home in front of his fans, he had his back to the wall just like everyone else in our building, but it was great to see him show up and play like he did today,&#8221; said Shanahan.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the only ball Shanahan handed out on Sunday.  The other went to someone else who made an even more important birth on Saturday night: punter Mitch Wishnowsky&#8217;s wife, Maddie, who gave birth to the couple&#8217;s first child in Northern California.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave Maddie one because I heard she was very tough,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;And we kept checking her, he said he couldn&#8217;t eat, he vomited, he was so nervous he didn&#8217;t get one, she got one.&#8221;</p>
<p>After giving birth to his daughter, Wishnowsky flew to Chicago on Sunday morning and arrived around 7 a.m.  Wishnowsky, however, did his usual holding duties.</p>
<p>&#8220;Poor Mitch had to fly all the way out of here and only hold balls for field goals,&#8221; said center Alex Mack with a laugh.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all of the news from Sunday&#8217;s game was happy for the 49ers.  Free Safety Jimmie Ward was eliminated in the fourth quarter with tight quadriceps that could hold him out for a while.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty big concern,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know yet, but when you talk about pulling a quad, it&#8217;s a lot like pulling a hamstring, so we&#8217;ll see if that is the case.&#8221;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> CHICAGO &#8211; Entering Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bears, it was fair to ask if Jimmy Garoppolo made his final start as the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in the same location where he made his first: his hometown of Chicago.</p>
<p>With the Niners in the middle of a four-game losing streak and rookie quarterback Trey Lance returning from a sprained left knee, another loss combined with fights from Garoppolo could have seen Lance join the line-up at some point, maybe next Week.</p>
<p>Instead, Garoppolo put together perhaps his best overall performance of the season in front of more than 100 friends and family from the Chicago area he grew up in, and the Niners improved to 3-4 with a 33-22 win at Soldier Field .</p>
<p>&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  “Every game does, but when you go back to your hometown it just feels different.  Landing at the airport, getting into the city, all the familiarity, all the good stuff, it&#8217;s just a special feeling.  It&#8217;s a good day. &#8220;</p>
<p>Not only was it a good day, it was a necessary day for Garoppolo, who weathered last week&#8217;s battles in a rain-soaked loss to the Indianapolis Colts.  After a few early drops from his receivers, Garoppolo hit receiver Deebo Samuel for a 50-yard stroke to set up a field goal just before half-time.</p>
<p>That deal seemed to ease things up as Garoppolo finished 17 of 28 for 322 yards without interceptions for a pass rating of 100.6.  He added a couple of roaring touchdowns, the first multi-score game on the floor.  According to ESPN Stats &#038; Information research, Garoppolo is the third player in franchise history to throw 300 yards and score multiple points in a game, along with Steve Young and Jeff Garcia.</p>
<p>All of this came after Garoppolo&#8217;s two interceptions in last week&#8217;s 30:18 loss to the Colts.  That performance made the drumbeat louder for Lance, even as coach Kyle Shanahan declared Garoppolo to be this week&#8217;s starter on Monday.</p>
<p>Despite Lance&#8217;s return to the backup role, he didn&#8217;t snap a shot of the bears.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to be on the safe side with the packages for him this week,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;It was his first week back so I wouldn&#8217;t just put him in there just to do that kind of thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Garoppolo underscored the first of his roaring touchdowns &#8211; a broken game that should go to Samuel &#8211; with an emphatic spike.  After his second goal, Garoppolo uncorked a throw in the stands, the first time since a league win in Seattle at the end of the 2019 season.</p>
<p>&#8220;My college roommates were in that end zone, so hopefully one of them got it,&#8221; said Garoppolo.  &#8220;It was just so much emotion. I&#8217;m not used to capturing it right from the start, so it was pretty cool when it happened.&#8221;</p>
<p>For all of these efforts, Shanahan awarded Garoppolo a cue-ball, a train that caused loud cheers from a cheerful Niners&#8217; locker room.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he got home in front of his fans, he had his back to the wall just like everyone else in our building, but it was great to see him show up and play like he did today,&#8221; said Shanahan.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t the only ball Shanahan handed out on Sunday.  The other went to someone else who made an even more important birth on Saturday night: punter Mitch Wishnowsky&#8217;s wife, Maddie, who gave birth to the couple&#8217;s first child in Northern California.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave Maddie one because I heard she was very tough,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;And we kept checking her, he said he couldn&#8217;t eat, he vomited, he was so nervous he didn&#8217;t get one, she got one.&#8221;</p>
<p>After giving birth to his daughter, Wishnowsky flew to Chicago on Sunday morning and arrived around 7 a.m.  Wishnowsky, however, did his usual holding duties.</p>
<p>&#8220;Poor Mitch had to fly all the way out of here and only hold balls for field goals,&#8221; said center Alex Mack with a laugh.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all of the news from Sunday&#8217;s game was happy for the 49ers.  Free Safety Jimmie Ward was eliminated in the fourth quarter with tight quadriceps that could hold him out for a while.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty big concern,&#8221; Shanahan said.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know yet, but when you talk about pulling a quad, it&#8217;s a lot like pulling a hamstring, so we&#8217;ll see if that is the case.&#8221; </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Notre Dame High School players finish warming up before the game against Centennial in Sherman Oaks, Calif. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Washington Post) THE ANGEL &#8211; Oh, you can play football here all weekend until your brain boils and your pupils dilate. Even without an NFL team, you can hear cheering crowds on &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <span class="pb-caption">Notre Dame High School players finish warming up before the game against Centennial in Sherman Oaks, Calif. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Washington Post)</span>  </p>
<p id="U960836443097AC"> <span> <span class="dateline">THE ANGEL &#8211;</span> </span> <span>Oh, you can play football here all weekend until your brain boils and your pupils dilate.  Even without an NFL team, you can hear cheering crowds on Fridays and Saturdays and scatter them over the entire spread on Sundays.  Even if the return of an NFL team remains speculation at this point &#8211; Rams?  Raider?  Charger?  &#8211; You can still swim in Los Angeless&#8217; futuristic patchwork quilt of pro football supporters. <span>¶ If you are looking for a Crisly Run Spread Offensive on a Prep Friday Night, you may see a Crisly Run Spread Offensive on a Prep Friday Night.  If you catch the right Saturday, you might find two gigantic college stadiums that welcome a collective of 145,918 spectators on the same evening.  On Sundays, drive like a devil, park a grouse, and hit 10 NFL team-themed bars &#8211; from the Cleveland Browns at Chimneysweep in Sherman Oaks to the Oakland Raiders crowd at the Killarney Pub &#038; Grill in Huntington Beach the Washington Redskins at Joxer Daly&#8217;s in Culver City, somewhere in between. </span> </span> </p>
<p>Check the map. </p>
<p>Over three days and portions of 13 games, you could have about 50 sports talks in Los Angeles.  You could hear Los Angeles swell without the NFL, but wouldn&#8217;t that make it even better?  You could hear an entire generation grow from infancy to adulthood without ever knowing a local team from the country&#8217;s top division.  You might even hear the classic Los Angeles sports talk that goes like this: </p>
<p>Two footballers sit in the stands at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks on Friday night.  One is a youth coach, the other helped him.  They watch their 16-year-old sons play for the Southland&#8217;s top-ranked team, according to the Los Angeles Times: the Centennial Huskies from Corona, 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles.</p>
<p>Youth coach Larry Reed said, “I think you&#8217;ve been here for so long without the NFL.  You have some people, yes they are hungry, but most people, it has been 20 years <span>.  .  .</span>”</p>
<p>And the other man, Troy Spencer Jr., said, &#8220;Was it that long ago?&#8221;</p>
<p>It has, but not exactly.  It&#8217;s been 21 years since Christmas Eve 1994 when the Raiders at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum lost to Kansas City 19-9 and the Rams lost to the Redskins 24-21 on Freeway 5 at Anaheim Stadium, and both left after that.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sometimes you go so long that we know how to go without it,&#8221; Spencer said before pointing to the horde of other options in the area.  &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s Southern California.&#8221; </p>
<p>Any new team &#8220;is well received as long as the team wins,&#8221; said Pat Haden, the Southern California athletic director who once played quarterback at the school and later for the Los Angeles Rams.  &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a necessary part of the Southern California landscape, anymore.&#8221;</p>
<p>    <img decoding="async" class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_742w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_24691442851988.jpg?uuid=s_HOKGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_240w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_24691442851988.jpg?uuid=s_HOKGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_24691442851988.jpg?uuid=s_HOKGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-threshold="240" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_60w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_24691442851988.jpg?uuid=s_HOKGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg"/><br /> <span class="pb-caption">    Raiders fans cheer at the Killarney Pub &#038; Grill on Sunday.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)</span>    <img decoding="async" class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_742w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_18211442851986.jpg?uuid=qICfdGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_240w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_18211442851986.jpg?uuid=qICfdGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_18211442851986.jpg?uuid=qICfdGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-threshold="240" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_60w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_18211442851986.jpg?uuid=qICfdGB7EeWEdXgcyYUWUg"/><br /> <span class="pb-caption">Former raider John Vella signs an autograph.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)</span>    </p>
<p>Sight and sounds</p>
<p>This landscape is teeming with sounds, from the public address near halftime in Notre Dame on Friday evening (with Centennial 42: 0) leading &#8211; &#8220;As a reminder, there are snacks on both sides&#8221; &#8211; to the three-part, Spanish-speaking, tuba-including band, some ladies for a tailgate in front of the Los Angeles Coliseum to the disc jockey (!) </p>
<p>On a single Sunday in this unusual football city, at 11:11 am in Santa Monica you can hear Patriots fans groaning because Julian Edelman cannot handle Tom Brady&#8217;s passport to Redskins fans in Culver City singing, “DCD!  DCD! &#8221;  as the defense stop the Rams in third place, to the Raiders fans in the south roaring in a packed crowd as Seth Roberts caught Derek Carr&#8217;s winning touchdown pass in Oakland, and then cheered again when the bar manager announced, &#8220;One fancy little tradition that we love to do here in Killarney when we win is shots!&#8221;</p>
<p>The landscape is also full of sights &#8211; from the last orange sunlight of the mainland as teams warm up next to a busy boulevard in Notre Dame, to the magically lit Rose Bowl from a hillside while UCLA has its third neighborhood in Arroyo Seco in.  plays Pasadena, to the clipboard Victor Acosta holds with a list of Bears table reservations at 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes before kick-off, at the Tinhorn Flats Saloon &#038; Grill in Burbank.</p>
<p>On a single Sunday, you might see a sign in O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s Irish Pub in Santa Monica &#8211; &#8220;All tables are reserved for the New York Giants Meetup Group only&#8221; &#8211; for enough Ravens fans to grab the happy ending up on Sunset Boulevard Baltimorean tourists Shavone Green and Jessica Gaither looked upbeat when Green said to a gathering of Seattle Seahawks fans down on Costa Mesa in a bowling alley bar, &#8220;We came up here and it felt like home.&#8221;</p>
<p>And there are tons of different feelings, not least the piping hot patch in the tailgate area at USC while 2Pac and NWA and J. Balvin boom in your ears, or the urgency on the Rose Bowl floor while UCLA and Brigham Young get ready and UCLA -Fans are booming in their ears, or the claustrophobia in Sunday bars with a hundred thick walls. </p>
<p>At the end of a football weekend in a city without professional football, the brain remembers so many jerseys from so many teams, so many years: a black Jerome Bettis # 32 (Steelers), a brown Gerard Warren # 94 (Browns), the obligatory one blue Rob Gronkowski No. 87 (Patriots), a blue Phil Simms No. 11 (Giants) with a blue Michael Strahan No. 92 (Giants), a Heath Shuler No. 5 (Redskins), a number of old Rams (Haden, Jack Youngblood, Leroy Irvin) and Ravens Purple on all four Baltimore women sitting upstairs front (Justin Forsett, Terrell Suggs, the still-loved Torrey Smith, and Anquan Boldin).</p>
<p id="U960836443097VlD">While absolutely everyone agrees that the country&#8217;s second largest metropolitan area can work without the NFL &#8211; it&#8217;s proven &#8211; it&#8217;s Los Angeles or Southland, so the angles vary from hope to desire to whatever.</p>
<p>She sold the high school memorabilia she created on a Friday night &#8211; Notre Dame Ladies Bling Shirts: $ 40, Scarves: $ 20, etc. &#8211; Stephanie Morgan-Russell of the San Francisco Bay Area who Affectionately reminiscent of the &#8217;49s days of the 1980s and 1990s, said, “What&#8217;s the problem?  There are two teams up there with 6 million people!  22 million people live here.  And a lot of soccer fans.  I do not get it.&#8221;</p>
<p>   <img decoding="async" class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150918_LA-Football_Fallon_01241442831106.jpg?uuid=ELiSMGBLEeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150918_LA-Football_Fallon_01241442831106.jpg?uuid=ELiSMGBLEeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150918_LA-Football_Fallon_01241442831106.jpg?uuid=ELiSMGBLEeWEdXgcyYUWUg" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_60w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150918_LA-Football_Fallon_01241442831106.jpg?uuid=ELiSMGBLEeWEdXgcyYUWUg"/><br /> <span class="pb-caption">The Centennial Huskies enter the field before facing Notre Dame.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)</span>  </p>
<p>Matt Logan, the trainer at Centennial, a Seahawks fan because he likes Coach Pete Carroll, said, “I think it would be good.  I do.  However, I don&#8217;t know if I would like a team to move.  I want a start-up team.  I want an LA team.  You know, when the Raiders come back, the Rams come back, the Chargers show up, everything&#8217;s kind of &#8216;been there, done that&#8217;.  ” </p>
<p>Anthony Catalano, Centennial quarterback, a Buffalo Bills fan born in 1997, said, “I look at things when there&#8217;s an NFL team in LA, when it gets good it could be like the Lakers.  It could be like a.  be [shining] Franchise like that because that&#8217;s LA.  I mean, everyone wants to live in Southern California. &#8220;</p>
<p>Southern California Trojans fan Danny Talamentes, 22, born and raised, believes a team could hold the region together, saying, for lack of a better word, walk through the Colosseum right there if you show up early enough.  You see this person come in and say, &#8216;Oh my god this is my boy!  I want to do that well! &#8216;  You don&#8217;t see them [now] regularly.  I find it easier to identify with someone, for example Matt Leinart, than with Russell Wilson.  Because Matt Leinart played here [in college].  Russell Wilson doesn&#8217;t. &#8221; </p>
<p>He says, &#8220;If I had an NFL team that had the history or half the history of the Dodgers, I would be a huge NFL fan no matter which team was here.&#8221;</p>
<p>    <img decoding="async" class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_742w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13441442850786.jpg?uuid=4VoiMmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_240w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13441442850786.jpg?uuid=4VoiMmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13441442850786.jpg?uuid=4VoiMmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-threshold="240" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_60w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13441442850786.jpg?uuid=4VoiMmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg"/><br /> <span class="pb-caption">Members of the Southern California Rams Booster Club pose with their Return of the LA Rams scarves.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)</span>    <img decoding="async" class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_742w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13921442850787.jpg?uuid=4YVNrmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_240w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13921442850787.jpg?uuid=4YVNrmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13921442850787.jpg?uuid=4YVNrmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg" data-threshold="240" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_60w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/09/21/Others/Images/2015-09-21/20150920_LA-Football_Fallon_13921442850787.jpg?uuid=4YVNrmB4EeWEdXgcyYUWUg"/><br /> <span class="pb-caption">Young Rams fans spin a wheel to win a raffle prize at half time at Maggie&#8217;s Pub.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For the Washington Post)</span>    </p>
<p>A generation not lost</p>
<p>They all point to a unique reality for a huge metropolis: a generation of children grew up locally without the NFL.  In fact, at the big Rams meeting where fan club officers wear badges and lanyards, President Ralph Valdez discovers two such generations: the guys of today and those in their twenties, like his son, also Ralph, 28, who only talks to Tony recalls Banks playing quarterback in the final days of the Rams in Los Angeles. </p>
<p>&#8220;It still means the same thing because of the name &#8216;Rams&#8217;,&#8221; said the elder Valdez.  “The St. Louis thing, they play in St. Louis, but we all feel the same.  Rams fans feel no matter where the Rams are, whether it&#8217;s Greenland, Idaho, Virginia.  As long as they are the Rams, we will follow them. ”At the same time:“ When you grew up as a Rams fan, you are missing something in your heart.  It&#8217;s not here. &#8220;</p>
<p>Back under the high school lights on Friday night, Reed and Spencer marvel.  Spencer says his son is missing an NFL team, but he likes the Rams because of Tavon Austin, whom he loved to watch when Austin played for West Virginia, a kind of random semi-andom that may be particularly typical in Los Angeles.  “Lots of Cowboys fans, lots of Chargers fans, Seahawks fans, 49ers fans, Pittsburgh fans.  .  .  .  The diversity of fans makes it really scary to an NFL team.  My thing is you&#8217;ve been away for so long, the young fans like my son, they don&#8217;t really have a team from LA, so are they really going to choose a team that lives here? &#8220;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s true, everyone seems to know if there&#8217;s a Packers bar on this boulevard, a Jets bar over there on this street.  There is of course iron solidarity among the Raiders. </p>
<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t come in here with a different jersey,&#8221; said Roland Lujan, 55, who had to watch the Raiders come and go in Los Angeles in his day.  “You refuse.  They don&#8217;t want fights or anything.  Raider fans don&#8217;t fight against Raider fans.  So you are not allowed. &#8221; </p>
<p>Lujan remembers a lot of fans who long for one team, but not two, please.  He thinks the Chargers should definitely stay in San Diego.  His own father, 80, took him to the Raiders, lived next door, and later enjoyed his son&#8217;s daily call at 5:30 p.m. to enjoy the victory over the Ravens.  At the end of a Sunday, when the last sun leaves the mainland, that is the second most touching story.</p>
<p>In the first, Rams Club Vice President Ernie Almeida told of that final game day against the Redskins in 1994. He remembered players lining up and high five fans saying goodbye to the Bend railings.  Almeida didn&#8217;t quite believe it and shortly afterwards took a day off “to see if it was true”.</p>
<p>He went to Rams Park.  He checked the moving van.  &#8220;And my heart was broken,&#8221; he said.  “It really happened.  The semi-trailers drove off.  It was gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shortly after the fans cheered loudly over a distant Rams sack in a large hall in a sloping football metropolis in 2015, Almeida said that if they came back, he would take off on another day and buy season tickets.  He would try to see if the vans came back. </p>
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