"Millions are seeing it this week as Taufahema has slowly transformed the Rams' House into the Rams' Highway. In preparation for Sunday's NFC championship game in Seattle against the Seahawks, with his inspirational messages and solitary cheers dancing high above anonymous masses of metal, the Freeway Fan has become a blue-and-yellow horned SigAlert. "Just trying to support my team," said Taufahema. Which he is doing in extraordinary fashion."
"For most of the last week, Taufahema has left his graveyard shift job as a security guard and driven to the walkway across the 101 freeway between the Balboa Boulevard and White Oak Avenue exits. It is an overpass generally known as the site of frequent protest banners, but Taufahema goes there on a different mission. He painstakingly hangs up a variety of Rams banners on the overpass fences and then stands behind them on a concrete walkway waving a yellow Rams towel and leading freeway cheers from noon until sundown."
""The key to this," he said, "is good shoes." As darkness falls, Taufahema packs up the props and returns to do it again the next day, and the next day, and the next day. If the Rams had his resilience and endurance, they would never lose."
Poko Taufahema transforms a Balboa Boulevard/White Oak Avenue 101 freeway overpass into a display of Rams banners and cheers ahead of the NFC championship. He leaves his graveyard shift security job to drive to the walkway daily, hanging banners on the overpass fences and standing on the concrete walkway waving a yellow Rams towel from noon until sundown. He leads solitary, enthusiastic freeway cheers that drivers and players passing below can see. He packs up at night and returns the next day, believing the space can promote something that brings people together and expressing strong faith the Rams can win.
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