- Yo do y'all see where I am?
We in the most expensive seat,
of the most expensive stadium in the world.
Allegedly.
I'm not gonna lie to y'all this [beep] kinda nice.
[mariachi band music]
Welcome to Inglewood, California,
home of SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles Chargers,
and more important, the Los Angeles Rams.
[mariachi music]
It's a stunning state of the art super stadium
in the middle of one of LA's most iconic neighborhoods.
♪ Inglewood, always up to no good ♪
This is also gonna be the host to the 2022 Super Bowl
between the Bengal's and the Rams.
And at $5 billion dollars this is
the most expensive stadium ever built
in the world's history.
Today, we gonna find out why the [beep]
this place costs so much money.
I'm gonna see everything from the nosebleeds,
to the full VIP experience
because this, is All Access.
Let's go.
[upbeat music]
Damn, the 50 yard line.
At a typical stadium,
you don't get the same open air feel.
Imagine Sunday night football,
the Super Bowl,
everybody running out the tunnel
and you right here on a 50 yard line,
you feel the plush in these seats.
You know, usually there's plasticy seats
depending on how old your stadium is.
You don't get the comfort of something like this.
Shit, it don't get too much better than this.
You know, they ain't telling how much
this seat was going to cost
but if I had to guess, a few thousand for you.
And for the Super Bowl?
I couldn't even call it.
You might not believe this,
but the seat I'm sitting in right now,
it'll run you at least $80K.
[hip hop music]
Y'all, they done got me up here in the bleeds.
It's a big difference compared
to when we were on the middle of the field.
These seats [knocks]
they plastic, the plush is gone.
Up here, all you could really do
is get drunk and fist fight.
I ain't really gonna swivel a shake too much
because if I tumble my ass down,
I'll make it to the 50 yard line.
Man, I ain't standing up.
- [Producer] [laughing] is it scary up there?
- It's scary as shit up here, man.
Ouu, get my [beep] up here.
[upbeat music]
Come here real quick, I wanna show you something.
Shh, we gotta go quick.
Ouu!
It's the best grass money can buy.
[hip hop music]
Ouu, give me a second, ooh, ooh.
Man, I don't know how the hell they do it in the NFL.
It's hot as shit in this stadium.
It's humid as shit,
they say LA don't got no humidity
they lie their ass off.
- Hey Tyler, you look exhausted.
You been running around too much?
Sunday night football, You gotta get rest.
- Exactly, man, thanks for having us, man.
- My pleasure!
- So, tell me about some of the stuff
we should see if you come in so far.
- Well you're on field level, right?
So you got the Bootsy Bellows Nightclub lounge
here in the corner. - Ooh, I like that.
- You got the SoFi Social club,
the best place to watch football in the NFL.
Lowest railing in the NFL,
closest seat to any players.
This is the greatest place to see the action up close
but there are no bad seats in SoFi stadium.
- I feel like I can see everything on the field
no matter where I am.
- Everything is meant to be open, airy.
You got this beautiful canopy above.
You feel like, hey, I'm outdoors,
but, you're covered from all the elements.
It's the most vertical stadium in the world.
So that means every seat is closer
than any other comparable seat to any other stadium.
- We're not actually at regular ground level right?
- Now we're a hundred feet down.
So the deepest hole, stadium wise in the world.
22 acres by 100 feet down,
it's seven million cubic tons of dirt
that we removed to build this stadium.
When you get in, you enter on level six out of eight levels.
So, everybody goes down.
It makes me think of the Bob Uecker commercial,
"I must be in the front row."
- You're in the wrong seat buddy, come on.
- Oh, I must be in the front row.
- I don't know who the hell that is
but, tell me a bit about how this stadium even came to be.
You were the one who pitched it, right?
- We pitched the vision to make sure the NFL knew
when they came back to LA,
they had a stadium and a project worthy
of the entertainment capital of the world.
Hollywood Park is bigger than Vatican City.
Three times bigger than Disneyland.
So, when you start to think about a project,
the scope and size to do everything
that Mr. Kroenke wanted to do
to bring Los Angeles to life,
and bring economic uplift to Inglewood.
Jobs, over 12,000 people worked on this site
to help build it up.
- Hold on, I don't wanna cut you off
but it's a little loud out here.
You mind we go somewhere else?
- You wanna go to your suite?
- I'll go to my suite, that's right.
All right folks, time for the main event.
Here's what a million dollars
is gonna get you at the Super Bowl.
- [Kevin] So when you go into our owner suites,
there are 24 of them,
and we designed them to be a place
like you would gather in your kitchen to watch a game.
An unbelievable island for people to gather across,
and then a great view of the field.
So, this is the place to be on a game day
if you want a top notch experience.
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- Now, I ain't gonna lie to you, this food is legit.
I wonder where the chef's at.
We sitting here with some of the chefs
behind the great food at SoFi Stadium.
[hip hop music]
So, the first thing I saw up in there
was that Tomahawk steak.
- It's big and impressive, isn't it?
- The bone was damn near bigger than my head.
Impressive ain't the word for it.
What are the other options though?
If I don't, if maybe I don't eat meat.
- Well, we've got great produce
and veggies from Melissa's Produce.
Vegan options that we've got in house with a vegan hot dog.
And then just, if you need something special,
we can create a menu that'll take care of you.
- If there's one thing I need to eat
if I'm in one of these suites,
what do y'all think it is?
- My choice is not just in the suites,
but throughout the stadium,
it's our City Link hot dog.
It's a deep fried hot dog.
I think it's the best hot dog, in all of sports.
- In all of sports, in all of sports?
- I'll take that one to the bank.
- Super glizzy, okay.
[Rock music]
So clearly SoFi knows how to take care of their VIPs.
But, what about the rest of Inglewood?
One of the major critiques of this place has been
that a lot of residents have said
that it was actually pushing them out
and making it so that they couldn't
afford a place like this.
Have you considered that, and did you consider that
in your pitch to build something out here?
- Certainly when we first met with the city of Inglewood
it was, what do you need for your residents?
And of their first request was,
go build housing that would bring in middle class
and upper middle class people to Inglewood,
help raise the tax base.
- [Tyler] Pause, that real quick.
Did he just say the city asked him to gentrify Inglewood?
Let's rewind.
- One of their first requests was
to go build housing that would bring in
middle class and upper middle class people to Inglewood,
help raise the tax base, help grow it.
And I think one of the struggles is everything
you talk about outside of this 300 acres
certainly has risen up,
and you now see Inglewood
putting in rent control, put in rent caps, doing some...
- I ain't trying to put words in the man's mouth,
but that sounds like gentrification to me.
If I'm ever going to get the real story,
I need to talk to the people of Inglewood.
What's your favorite part about SoFi stadium?
- I'd have to say the size
I love when I'm coming off to the 405
or the 105 and you just look over,
you can see the skyline behind the stadium.
- The energy here, the ambiance,
they say if you don't make it to heaven,
come to SoFi Stadium.
- Dude, the TV bro, that's the coolest thing.
- Ah, yeah, television,
America's true national pass time.
So, when we got a screen as big as this,
of course people are gonna be drawn to it.
- Samsung was nice enough to build us
the world's first double-sided 4k, 70,000 square feet,
eight millimeter LED board.
So, more LED in this building
than any where else in the world.
And when you say things are bigger in Texas,
that screen is three times bigger
than the size of AT&T stadium.
- What's going on, man?
I heard you the brain's behind everything
especially with this big old LED screen right here.
Tell me how y'all got this in here.
[hip hop music]
- Yeah, it's so large
that you can't really sort of fit it in.
You have to design it first
and then you design the building around it.
- [Tyler] How many pieces did it take
to make something like this?
- [Skarpi] Oh, it came in on something like 200 semi trucks.
- Sheesh! - Yeah.
It took us about six months.
Basically from the time they started building
it on the field until it was attached to the roof.
But it also, because of the way it shaped,
you see that oval shape, it means that it's
very close to the people that are on the top.
And then if you are sitting down
in the stadium bowl, you get this gorgeous
what we call the inside side.
It is unlike any other stadium in the world.
The energy that's created, not just with the video
but the audio elements we have up there
is 260 speaker arrays up there
that provide the audio inside of the bowl as well.
So, the combination of the audio and the visuals
that you get around a football game, is amazing.
- How much y'all spend on this?
- A lot.
- Five billion, a little bit more than that.
- Give or take.
- five billion dollars to build the stadium like this.
How much is going to this screen?
- No comment.
- Man, you know the answer, you know the number.
Here's the big elephant in the room.
No matter how many Rams officials
you talk to in this stadium.
No one will tell us exactly how much it costs.
So, I'm asked the folks in stadium, what they know.
How much you think it costs to build SoFi stadium?
- Woo, millions.
- Millions? - I have no idea.
- A little bit over a billion or two billion.
- A lot of money.
- Well probably over five dollars.
- Sixteen billion.
- Hey, now it might be, it might be sixteen.
- Something crazy.
- More than I got.
More than I got my checking account already.
- I read an articles with like five billion dollars.
- I don't know, I don't care, I'm here to party.
- I heard it's maybe in the five billion dollar range.
- Ouu, there you go, that's right.
five billion man, five billion.
- Don't get too excited about it.
You gotta always be bigger than the numbers.
- What do you think of SoFi?
- I think it's beautiful, man, I call it Jericho.
I think all the amenities that it has
is really fitting for fans who love football.
- I think when you walk into SoFi stadium, you go, wow.
I mean, you never seen anything like it.
- Man, the atmospheres off the hook,
it's off the chain.
You gotta come here, you gotta be here.
- I would say come every time you get a chance to,
it's a beautiful thing.
We having so much fun.
We not even done yet,
we about to go out here and go up.
- What's one thing you would suggest to somebody
who's never come to SoFi stadium,
for why they should be here?
- I Would say the people, the people, a lot of people here
are just generally from this community
and we've never really had something
besides the form in this community.
So, I would say the people, the energy here is great.
- You know, like growing up as a kid
we didn't have a football team.
You know what I mean?
So, I always wonder like, man, what would it be like?
And now it's a reality.
50, 60, 70,000 Angelinos in a bowl.
Like it's pretty amazing honestly.
- It's brand new state of the art technology,
it's the best place we got
and you gotta support your city no matter what.
- Being born and raised here is really exciting
to have a team back in the hometown.
So, we're excited to support.
- What's it like to be able to bring
your daughter to a Rams games?
- It's really cool you know,
I never imagine that we'd be going to football in LA.
It's a place where she can really enjoy
and she can scream and cheer, so she's having a blast.
- Oh, this is incredible, just being right here.
You just feel like you're literally in the game
and it's just a beautiful, beautiful stadium.
One of the best I've ever been in, in my life.
- let's get ready to rumble! [crowd cheering]
[hip hop music]
- Look man, we had a hell of a day.
We in a parking lot of SoFi Stadium
we've seen the VIP seats.
We've seen the nose bleeds.
We've seen Ty Dolla $ign.
And we've seen a few hall of famers,
including Paris Hilton.
So man, after something like that, that's all we got.
I see y'all on the flip, peace.
[mariachi music]
It's off road, like come on man.
Be like four football fields from the stadium.
Y'all bought all this land
but y'all couldn't figure out
a way to get better parking?
like dust bowl out this mother [beep].
[mariachi music]
Why are you Rams fan?
- Oh, Marshall Faulk is my favorite player ever.
- Ram's is number one, Super Bowl at home this year!
- When the Chargers left
it hurt more than when my dad left.
So, I'm repping any team but the Chargers.
[mariachi music]
- We host the Academy Awards, the Grammy's,
or maybe Super Bowl, the conditions are perfect.
- What about my birthday party?
Can we get that on the list?
- You know, you and Drake
just need a couple hundred grand, you're good.
- I'll figure it out.
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