Opinion
Rams legend Eric Dickerson will not attend Tremendous Bowl: ‘They needed to present me tickets within the rafters’
The Los Angeles Rams will turn out to be the second workforce ever to play a Tremendous Bowl at their house stadium after they face the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, and lots of legends are anticipated to attend the sport.
One Rams nice says it’s extremely unlikely he makes it to SoFi Stadium.
Corridor of Fame operating again Eric Dickerson made an look on CBS Sports activities Radio’s “Maggie and Perloff Present” and requested if he deliberate to attend the sport.
His response surprised the hosts.
“I don’t suppose I’m going to the sport,” Dickerson stated. “I’m simply going to observe it on TV.”
Maggie Grey and Andrew Perloff, the hosts of the present, adopted up, asking the franchise’s second-leading rusher why he wouldn’t be in attendance for the workforce’s Tremendous Bowl look.
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“Let’s put it like this, they needed to present me tickets within the rafters,” Dickerson stated, by way of CBSSports.com. “Within the 400s, so I stated, ‘I’d reasonably keep at house and watch it.’”
This isn’t the primary time Dickerson had a problem with the franchise.
In 2016, Dickerson stated he stopped attending video games as a result of he was banned from the workforce by former head coach Jeff Fisher. After Fisher was fired in December 2016, Dickerson signed a one-day contract with the workforce so he might retire as a Rams participant. And he was employed because the workforce’s vp of enterprise improvement.
Dickerson ran for over 13,000 yards throughout his profession, which additionally included stints with the Colts, Raiders and Falcons. He holds the league’s single-season speeding file with 2,105 yards, which he set in 1984. Dickerson, who was inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame in 1999, was additionally named to the NFL’s a hundredth Anniversary All-Time Workforce.