Las Vegas Raiders vs. Los Angeles Rams

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Four hours up the 15 and the makeup of the building changes. This is the weekend Southern California drives out, the one that gets bought as a single package, a Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon, where the caravan leaves Ontario before sunrise and somebody has a cousin with a spare room in a hotel nobody would otherwise book. Los Angeles carries an unusually long memory into this particular fixture. A whole generation of this fanbase was made in the Coliseum between 1982 and 1994 and simply never handed the allegiance back when the team left, which is why so much of the silver and black you pass on the freeway that morning has California plates underneath it. What actually happens at Allegiant Stadium, then, is two Southern California crowds meeting in a third city, one nominally the home team and one nominally visiting, both having driven the same road to get there, both convinced the place belongs to them. October 25, 1:25 in the afternoon. It is the most SoCal game on the schedule and it is nowhere near SoCal.