Rams and Bengals fans wait out Super Bowl finale in and out of stadium
When wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hauled in the game’s first touchdown, Joey Keenan and Maguire Kelly exploded in joy — even surpassing the exuberance of the other diehard Rams fans surrounding them.
The reason, the two Florida State University graduate students explained, was that they’d both bet on Beckham scoring this Super Bowl’s first touchdown. Keenan had won $140, Kelly, $70.
“That was a euphoric experience, an out-of-body experience,” Kelly said.
Keenan, who grew up in West Hills and traveled from Jacksonville, Fla., to Los Angeles to attend the big game with 20 other sports management students, said he never would have believed that an L.A. team would be playing in the first Super Bowl hosted by the city in nearly 30 years.
“We just got the team five, six years ago,” he said. “But you know what, some dreams do come true.”
Inside and outside SoFi Stadium on Sunday afternoon, thousands of
