{"id":453075,"date":"2026-09-04T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453075\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:08:13","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-arrive-in-melbourne-for-historic-nfl-game-against-the-la-rams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453075\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers arrive in Melbourne for historic NFL game against the LA Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have arrived in Melbourne for their season-opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">It is expected to be the first of many regular-season NFL games in front of its growing Australian fan base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The team\u2019s 200-member traveling party touched down on Friday morning after a 15-hour chartered Qantas flight and will spend a week acclimatizing before facing the Rams in front of an expected sold-out crowd at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The Rams are scheduled to arrive next Thursday, only about 24 hours before the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The match is scheduled for a Friday morning start in Australia so it can be televised on Thursday evening during prime time in the eastern United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The San Francisco 49ers have arrived in Melbourne for their season-opening NFL game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6446,9522,101,296,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-453075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-national-football-league","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}