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Amid Super Bowl excitement in Inglewood, local businesses fear they may soon be crowded out

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The sadness can wait, and so can the uncertainty and tension. People need to be fed.

The Rams are in the Super Bowl. In the hours leading up to Sunday's game, cars will pull up to Ms. B's M&M Soul Food Restaurant, the one with this banner out front: "Welcome Rams, Come Try Our Yams. Love, Ms. B."

The customers will race in, grab their containers of catfish, short ribs, pork chops, chicken and oxtail, and hustle back home, the better to enjoy the game with authentic Southern provisions. Then the Super Bowl party will start at the restaurant, with the big game on all the televisions. All that good food, plus hot wings.

Everybody wants hot wings on Super Bowl Sunday. So says Ms. B.

There really is a Ms. B. Her name is Beverly Brinson, and the Rams just might put her out of business.

Not this week, certainly. Maybe not this year. But next year the Rams

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