{"id":887564,"date":"2026-09-11T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887564\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:34:12","slug":"nfl-melbourne-live-updates-san-francisco-49ers-v-la-rams-mcg-game-start-time-how-to-watch-where-to-watch-players-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887564\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Melbourne LIVE updates: San Francisco 49ers v LA Rams MCG game start time, how to watch, where to watch, players, teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for today\u2019s historic game, the LA Rams were expected to be in bed early last night and up early today after their flight from the US.<\/p>\n<p>The team only arrived in Melbourne just 24 hours before today\u2019s NFL game at the MCG, whereas the San Francisco 49ers spent a full week in Melbourne adjusting to the time zone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LA Rams president Kevin Demoff with some superfans.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9616ce1abd226aa8860db8b6068a914e52573e65.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>LA Rams president Kevin Demoff with some superfans.Jason South<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Demoff, president of the Los Angeles Rams, said the team had an 8pm curfew last night and planned to be up from 3am or 4am today, in keeping with their strategy of staying on LA time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to have them in bed by 8 pm,\u201d Demoff told media yesterday. \u201cThen if they wind up waking up naturally at 3am or 4am, that\u2019s their normal rhythm to get ready. They\u2019ll leave for the stadium at 6.30 am or 7am, so that\u2019s about right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In preparation for today\u2019s historic game, the LA Rams were expected to be in bed early last night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-887564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887564","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=887564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}