Los Angeles Chargers V San Francisco 49ers

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Half of this city moved here from somewhere else and never changed allegiance, which is why a Bay Area team playing in Inglewood does not feel like a road game to anybody involved. Scarlet and gold will be everywhere. It will be in your row. It will be the family who drove down from Sacramento and the guy from your office who has lived in Silver Lake for eleven years and still says we about a team four hundred miles north. There is something worth watching in that beyond the football, because it is the clearest available picture of what Los Angeles actually is: a city of people who brought their old loyalties with them and never quite unpacked them. A Thursday in the week before Christmas, streaming rather than network, with the season on the line for at least one of these teams. SoFi Stadium, December 17, 5:15 p.m. Wear your colours. Somebody will want to argue about it, and that is the fun.