INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Kevin Demoff, the Los Angeles Rams' chief operating officer, stood on the south end of the 100-foot-deep hole where the world's most innovative, opulent stadium will one day sit.
It made him a little reflective.
Demoff thought back about 14 months, when a groundbreaking ceremony was held for this mixed-use development that will someday house two NFL teams and some of the world's grandest events. It was the week before quarterback Jared Goff's first start, and there was so much uncertainty then -- about Goff's ability, about the Rams' future, about how the nation's second-largest media market would embrace it all.