Los Angeles Rams fans rioted to celebrate the Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals late Sunday night, going so far as to vandalize a city bus filled with passengers.
In what has become an expected trend following a home sporting team’s championship victory, some Los Angeles fans took it upon themselves to block traffic on Grand Avenue in downtown L.A., the Daily Mail reported.
People are now spraying "Rams" on a Silver Line Metro bus (with passengers in it) moving south on Grand Avenue pic.twitter.com/hDWC7cpOkx
— Jeong Park 박종찬 (@JeongPark52) February 14, 2022
Fireworks can be heard going off in the background as a videographer cautions that the graffiti-covered bus is being lit on fire.
LA from the air…BUS surfing – Rams fans running wild Downtown LA – vandalizing and terrorizing innocent motorists. LAPD preparing to make arrests. @thesaltreturns pic.twitter.com/FFJ3vl2qPQ
— YouKnowMe🤓🇺🇲 (@YouKnowMe107) February 14, 2022
BREAKING: LAPD has declared an unlawful assembly, steamer footage shows rioters attempting to torch a bus after vandalizing it after the LA Rams won the Super Bowl pic.twitter.com/RzHutqOsGD
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) February 14, 2022
In this alternate angle of the scene, a man can be heard describing gasoline being poured on the bus. The Los Angeles Police Department had to be called in to issue a disbursement order as the situation continued to escalate.
Responding to the footage with a screen capture of the live-streamed destruction of the bus, one person asked a fairly obvious question.
Why are you running around with a gas can during the super bowl? #WTF2022 pic.twitter.com/pN7moMGlNm
— TxTerror (@JasonDtexan) February 14, 2022
Some of the graffiti found on the bus was LA’s team colors of blue, yellow, and white. The vandals painted the team’s name on the windows and windshield along with expletives and unidentified symbols.
Bus down in downtown LA pic.twitter.com/URaoC7iKtK
— Arcangel LA Rams Reyes (@arcangelreyes10) February 14, 2022
@LexG_III dude – the LA bus rolls by 2 pic.twitter.com/G16PjbkDwO
— Sanj (@sanjmovies) February 14, 2022
#SuperBowl: #RamsHouse celebration gets out of hand as a city bus gets wrecked.
🏈 One #Rams fan was seen behind the wheel of an #LAMetro buspic.twitter.com/rzHBlxG2a2— The Modern Times of Long Beach 🌎 (@ModernTimesLB) February 14, 2022
And in one interior view of the bus after passengers had been let off by the assembly, a man was filmed clouded by smoke.
#SuperBowl: #RamsHouse fan stands in a smoke-filled #LA Metro bus as fans demolish the vehicle in reaction to #SuperBowlLVI victory.pic.twitter.com/6ydjBGNrNi
— The Modern Times of Long Beach 🌎 (@ModernTimesLB) February 14, 2022
All the rioters around the bus were not in solidarity however as a Bengals fan was also in attendance. Words were exchanged before the fan walked away followed by the heckles of the Rams fans.
#Rams fans fighting with a Bengals fan as cops swarm a rundown bus. Only in LA #SuperBowl #NFL pic.twitter.com/qJ606WsIYu
— Stevie (@okStevieee) February 14, 2022
These scenes are reminiscent of events that have taken place after other championships. Notably, when the Philadelphia Eagles won their first-ever Super Bowl Championship in 2018; the riots lead to the destruction of an awning at the Philadelphia Ritz-Carlton.
Fires were lit around the city following that victory, but the police had prepared in advance for the likelihood of such an aggressive demonstration of fan loyalty.
PHILLY IS LITERALLY LIT! 👀 pic.twitter.com/uxiADLMmpa
— SB Nation (@SBNation) February 5, 2018
Though the LAPD was able to disburse the crowd and bring order to the scene, the bus was left in shambles. With the engine still running, broken windows, and a new paint job, someone took the extra step to change the digital display on the bus to read, “GO RAMS!”
One casualty of tonight’s rowdy celebration in downtown LA: this @metrolosangeles bus. It’s been abandoned (with the engine still running), has broken windows, is covered in graffiti, but is still sporting this rather ironic sign on the front. @Newsy pic.twitter.com/2bRFaMtYsF
— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) February 14, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Northeast PA with his fiancé and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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