LA Rams Super Bowl LVI Victory Parade: Watch live

LOS ANGELES, CA — Tens of thousands of Rams fans are flooding the streets around Exposition Park to see their Super Bowl LVI champs parade to a rally at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The parade started at 11 a.m., beginning at the Shrine Auditorium and ending at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a rally is planned on the peristyle-end plaza outside the stadium. Officials estimated there would be room for about 20,000 fans, but nearby USC officials warned students and staffers to expect crowds as large as 100,000 people.

The Rams claimed the Super Bowl title Sunday with a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. For Los Angeles football fans who went decades without a home team, the victory was an emotional moment. And for a city that was unable to celebrate the Dodgers World Series win and the Lakers championship with parades due to the pandemic, the Rams celebration marks an elated return to normal of sorts.

KTLA is one of several local outlets live streaming the parade:

The parade will travel along Jefferson Boulevard to Figueroa Street, then head south to the Coliseum, where the rally will be at noon. Most streets in the area will be closed to vehicle traffic from approximately 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that the victory capped a triumphant NFL return to the Southland.

"The NFL needed L.A., and L.A. needed the NFL," Garcetti told reporters in downtown Los Angeles. "It was a broken-heart story. If it was Hollywood, it would have been maybe a rom-com. But at least some sort of romance. But it was our destiny to come back together."

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.