Davante's house
How Davante's latest trade brought his personal Taco Bell back into the conversation..
Taco Bell
Content & Creative Direction
Role
Content Director
Timeline
8 weeks creative 24hrs end-to-end production
team
2 creatives, 1 producer, 1 strategist, 1 account, me
platform
Social, Brand Partnership, Event & Experimental
OBJECTIVES
The goal was to take a long-running brand partnership and bring it into the real world in a way that felt native to NFL culture.
Since 2022, Taco Bell and Davante Adams have built a story around a simple exchange. Taco Bell wanted Davante in its commercials, and Davante wanted a Taco Bell in his house. After four seasons of heavy NFL placement, that idea became part of football fandom. When Davante was traded to the Los Angeles Rams in 2025, the conversation picked back up immediately.
We saw an opportunity to push the partnership further. Instead of another commercial, we wanted to create something physical that fans could experience together. The Rams’ chant, “Whose house? Rams house,” gave us the opening. If SoFi Stadium was Davante’s new home, then his house should live inside it, complete with the Taco Bell he has always wanted.
Our objective was to drive earned conversation by turning a long-running joke into a real place. Rather than relying only on paid media, we aimed to create something fans would discover, document, and share on their own.
STRATEGY AND EXECUTION
To bring the idea to life, we built a full-scale version of Davante’s house inside SoFi Stadium for the Rams’ season opener.
The structure was designed to look like a modern luxury home placed directly on the stadium concourse. Fans entered through a residential-style front and walked through spaces inspired by Davante’s world. There was a memorabilia room, a living space, a merch closet, and a backyard hangout. At the center was a fully working Taco Bell counter recreated from the campaign commercials and staffed for real service.
This was not approached like a typical pop-up or branded booth. The goal was to make it feel like an actual home that just happened to exist inside an NFL stadium. The materials, layout, and scale were all chosen to support that illusion.
One of the main challenges was the environment itself. SoFi Stadium is covered in screens and sponsor messaging. Anything flat or digital would have blended in. To stand out, the installation had to be physical and immediately recognizable from a distance. It needed to work for fans walking by, for people filming on their phones, and for broadcast cameras capturing the game.
We also had to make sure the partnership felt authentic. The campaign already had history with fans, so the experience needed to build on that equity rather than feel like a stunt. By tying the idea directly to the Rams’ chant, the activation felt connected to the team and the moment.
The result was an environment that worked on multiple levels. It was an in-person experience for fans at the game, a visual moment for broadcast, and a natural source of social content.
RESULTS
The house quickly became one of the most talked-about elements of the Rams’ home opener. Fans lined up to walk through it, take photos, and order from the Taco Bell counter. Throughout the game, images and videos of the installation spread across social platforms.
Because of its size and placement, the structure appeared in broadcast coverage and sports media content, extending the reach beyond the stadium. NFL fan accounts and community pages picked up the moment and folded it into the broader conversation around Davante’s debut with the Rams.
Most importantly, the activation achieved its core objective. It deepened the brand partnership by turning a commercial storyline into a shared live experience. Instead of simply referencing the long-running joke, we delivered on it in a way fans could see and step inside.
By making the story physical, Taco Bell inserted itself directly into NFL fandom and generated earned conversation in a way traditional sponsorship alone could not.
MY ROLE
With less than an hour to concept, direct, and film Davante Adams, the project demanded fast creative decisions and an instinct for what would resonate in real time. The content was built specifically for social platforms, designed to feel immediate, conversational, and native to the way fans already engage with sports culture online. Within two hours of filming, edits were delivered, approved by the client, and pushed live while the surrounding conversation was still unfolding. The videos ultimately generated more than 11 million views on Instagram alone, proving that speed and strong creative instincts can turn a quick-turn social deliverable into a larger cultural moment.