LOS ANGELES -- Angel Fabela learned Spanish as a teenager so that she could communicate with her grandfather and has spent most of her adult life trying to connect with her Mexican heritage. This wasn’t just a football game. This wasn’t just her Los Angeles Rams playing in a potential Super Bowl preview against the Kansas City Chiefs on a national stage.
For Fabela, and so many of the Mexican-Americans spread throughout Southern California, this was a pilgrimage. She bought six tickets, three of them for friends traveling all the way from Illinois. She was going to pull her 14-year-old son out of school, visit the Pyramid of the Sun, meet up with other fans who made the journey and bask in the unique pairing of her favorite team in her home country.