A bloodied feminine and her male companion had been escorted out of SoFi Stadium throughout the fourth quarter of the Rams season opener Sunday together with two different spectators who had engaged in the identical violent altercation.
The girl and her companion had been carrying jerseys of the Houston Texans, who the Rams defeated 14-9. Video clips on social media confirmed her face lined with blood when safety guards led her from Part 428 excessive above the top zone.
The incident appeared to start with phrases and shoving between the lady within the No. 99 jersey of retired Texans legend JJ Watt and a girl carrying a Rams jersey. The altercation escalated, with the person carrying the No. 7 jersey of Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud pouring a cup of beer on the pinnacle of the lady within the Rams jersey.
Two males in Rams jerseys one row above the brawl stood and started shoving and grabbing the 2 Texans followers till safety personnel arrived about two minutes into the incident.
The 2 males from the row above eliminated their jerseys — one among former Rams nice Aaron Donald and the opposite of Rams receiver Puka Nacua — however further safety personnel arrived, handcuffed each males and escorted them away.
SoFi Stadium, which opened in 2020, has been tormented by brawls. Oakland chef Daniel Luna was in a medically induced coma for weeks after Los Angeles County Fireplace Division paramedics found him mendacity on the bottom within the stadium’s Lot L throughout the NFC Championship Recreation between the Rams and San Francisco 49ers.
It took three days and an inquiry from The Instances earlier than Inglewood authorities acknowledged the incident. Bryan Alexis Cifuentes, 33, was charged with one felony rely of battery with critical bodily harm after video confirmed that he dropped Luna with one punch. Cifuentes pleaded not responsible and investigators decided that Luna began the altercation when he shoved Cifuentes.
Luna sued the Rams and L.A. County, claiming that as a result of he was drunk deputies ought to have put him in a type of protecting custody after he was denied entrance to the stadium as a result of he didn’t have a ticket.
The swimsuit was dismissed by Inglewood Superior Court docket Choose Ronald F. Frank, who wrote that “the Sheriff’s Division didn’t create the peril by which plaintiff discovered himself. [Luna] alleges that he was already inebriated when he was detained initially. The sheriffs took no affirmative motion which contributed to, elevated, or modified the chance which might have in any other case existed.”
At the very least 4 fights have damaged out at Chargers video games at SoFi Stadium. The newest was a brawl in a sport in opposition to the Raiders in September 2024. A video offered to KTLA reveals confirmed a bunch of Chargers followers combating a shirtless man.
Moments earlier than the Chargers and Dallas Cowboys squared off at SoFi in 2023, the groups scuffled at midfield after a number of Cowboys ran by way of the Chargers’ defensive backs as they had been conducting pregame drills.
A number of fights broke out off the sector throughout the sport, together with one on a concourse exit that concerned a dozen or extra followers. No followers had been arrested, in line with the Inglewood Police Division.
After a sport between the Chargers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in November 2022, a person was thrown over a railing. An individual who recorded a video of the incident informed KABC-TV Channel 7 that the combat started after one man ran into one other. A 3rd man tried to intervene and was thrown over the railing onto the concrete steps under.
A 2022 ballot of greater than 3,000 followers by Sportsbook Overview concluded that many NFL stadiums are extra violent than SoFi Stadium and that followers usually really feel protected attending video games on the venue.
Crimes in and round stadiums happen all too usually, with 39.2% of ballot respondents reporting having witnessed or fallen sufferer to not less than one crime in or exterior a stadium. Solely 5.4% of followers had witnessed a criminal offense at SoFi, and solely a kind of polled mentioned they’d been a sufferer of a criminal offense whereas attending a Rams or Chargers residence sport.
Sportsbook Overview up to date its rankings final week, with SoFi transferring up from the fifteenth to the eleventh most harmful NFL stadium. M&T Financial institution Stadium, residence of the Baltimore Ravens, is ranked as probably the most harmful; Highmark Stadium, residence of the Buffalo Payments, is ranked because the most secure.
