L.A. Rams prepare for ‘home’ playoff game as wildfires ravage hometown [Video]

LOS ANGELES –

The Los Angeles Rams wrapped up practice at their training complex Friday under blue skies with bruise-colored clouds of wildfire smoke lurking on the horizon.

The players and coaches then joined a traveling party of 355 people, six dogs and two cats and headed to the airport, where the Arizona Cardinals had sent two team planes to aid their journey to Phoenix.

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“We’re going in there for everybody in Los Angeles — everybody affected by the fires, everybody displaced, everybody evacuated,” Rams linebacker Michael Hoecht said. “That’s what this week’s for, for us. That’s what we play for.”

The Rams (10-7) have been preparing for their biggest game of the season amid the catastrophic wildfires besieging the Los Angeles area. The players and coaches tasked with separating football from real life are finding it difficult, …