Kevin Harlan’s call of a fan on the field highlights MNF’s Rams-49ers disaster

Los Angeles Rams coach Jeff Fisher might regret his anti-7-9 and anti-8-8 record talk that was caught on “Hard Knocks.”

His team debuted in San Francisco for the Week 1 finale on Monday Night Football only to fall in embarrassing 28-0 fashion. The Rams lost to a 49ers team that isn’t expected to do much under first-year head coach Chip Kelly.

Quickly, a summary: A fan ran onto the field and all over it as security took its sweet time to react, and the Rams’ starting quarterback that wasn’t No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff managed to go 17-for-35 for 130 yards (a 3.7 yards-per-attempt average) and two picks. Furthermore, Los Angeles’ star defensive player Aaron Donald completely lost it, got kicked out, and people totally understood how lucky he was to no longer be a part of the game.

How bad was it, really?

The best part of the game was Kevin Harlan’s Westwood One radio call of the aforementioned fan on the field.

“That was the most exciting thing to happen tonight,” Harlan said, sighing.

If you missed it, you’re a lucky one. Here’s a tweet-cap of the NFL nightcap, courtesy of a bunch of professional people who appreciate sports but not enough to find anything good about the game.

The Rams should sign this guy! He was running free! pic.twitter.com/iyFpKvAvJU

— Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) September 13, 2016

Did that fan intruder on the field rack up more yardage than the Rams?

— J.A. Adande (@jadande) September 13, 2016

Announcers like to complain that fans running on the field ruin the game. But in this case …

— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) September 13, 2016

We're talking about watching this game film? It should be destroyed at the league office in the same room the Spygate tapes were expunged

— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) September 13, 2016

Jared Goff is inactive on this team?

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) September 13, 2016

Are we *sure* LA actually knew it had acquired a football team it had to put out on the field tonight?

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) September 13, 2016

Case Keenum: 3.2 yards per pass attempt.

— Joey Kaufman (@joeyrkaufman) September 13, 2016

https://twitter.com/TheCoolSub/status/775555357229748224

And to think, St. Louis tried to keep them. #Ramsvs49ers

— Mike Wise (@MikeWiseguy) September 13, 2016

He gone pic.twitter.com/ibENfDkTm8

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) September 13, 2016

Aaron Donald with the most offensive play of the night for the Rams.

— Roxy Bernstein (@roxybernstein) September 13, 2016

Congrats to Aaron Donald for getting to leave

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger_sherman) September 13, 2016

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