{"id":884646,"date":"2026-09-08T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:42:20","slug":"how-big-is-the-pitch-at-the-melbourne-cricket-ground-as-rams-face-49ers-in-nfl-australia-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884646\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is the pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as Rams face 49ers in NFL Australia Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>A Super Bowl repeat may open the 2026 season on Wednesday, but a lot of the attention is being placed on the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers\u2019 game in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The game will mark the very first regular season game to take place in Australia, with the Melbourne Cricket Ground the obvious host stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Although the stadium is clearly not designed to host NFL games, adaptations have taken place behind the scenes in preparation for the Rams and Niners.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest adaptations is the field, with the game being played on an oval cricket pitch, which has created huge spaces from the sidelines to the stands. <\/p>\n<p>The footage from inside the stadium is interesting, to say the very least. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2294067167-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"San Fransisco 49ers Practice &amp; Media Availability\" \/>Photo by Quinn Rooney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Standard tickets for the game in Melbourne have now officially sold out, but fans are able to purchase them from the resale market. <\/p>\n<p>The view from the stands is going to be questionable, given the rectangle NFL field being dropped onto the cricket oval. <\/p>\n<p>A standard NFL field is 120 yards long including the end zones and 53\u2153 yards wide. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Think of a standard NFL field (120 yards long including end zones, 53\u2153 yards wide). Now drop that entire rectangle into the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground\u2019s playing oval.<br \/>The MCG surface runs about 190 yards long and 163 yards wide. That means the oval is roughly\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/808glddSCb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/808glddSCb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FrontRowBrian\u2122 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \u20bf (@FrontRowBrian) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrontRowBrian\/status\/2096935047148212516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 7, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>MORE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS STORIES<\/p>\n<p>To put this into perspective, the MCG\u2019s pitch is 190 yards long and 163 yards wide, which has created a huge gap from the field to the stands. <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this comes across on the broadcast footage on Thursday evening. <\/p>\n<p>The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London has received a lot of praise over the years for how well it accommodates NFL football.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium in north London looks like an actual NFL stadium on the broadcast, but this may not quite be the case for the MCG, as impressive a stadium it may well be.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover A Super Bowl repeat may open the 2026 season on Wednesday, but a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,1263,1262,85],"class_list":["post-884646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}