Besides those activities, both players also conducted Nike youth clinics and school visits with 400 children, while also making the rounds with Australian media, among many other events.
"We went to the camps yesterday, and it just kind of showed me how far the NFL has reached, and who it can reach," Dotson said. "And like the things that it's done for me personally and the things that it can do for a kid that's coming out of a bad situation, being able to help his family, being able to accomplish things he never thought was possible, and to be on a team like the Rams that get to travel and do these things, that just expands upon that even more, the reach that you have to help the youth. Not just the youth from your state, not just from your country, (but) to go to another country and possibly help somebody to have that dream as well."
They also got to check out the MCG, which may be the one thing they have trouble adequately describing compared to the rest of their experiences from the trip. According to Dotson, it's something they will have to experience in person for themselves.
"It was actually kind of hard to imagine myself playing there because the field was such a humongous amount of land," Dotson said. "It felt like three acres of land. It was just mind blowing to see that like this piece of history for the country was such a... like the fact that I'm gonna be there is the thing that's really gonna be the thing that just wows me. I can't wait for our teammates to get here and be able to see it. ... I feel like I can't describe it to 'em in great enough detail to get them to feel what I felt when I walked in."
The trip was the latest step in the Rams deepening their connection with fans in that international market within broader efforts to build their global brand. They were first awarded Australia as an International Home Marketing Area (IHMA) – along with China and Mexico – on December 15, 2021. As part of that program, they have rights to pursue activities in that international market similar to what they do do in their domestic home marketing area, such as in-person and digital marketing, corporate sponsorship sales, fan events and activations, youth football activities, merchandise sales and co-marketing relationships with other sports and entertainment properties in the market.