{"id":453551,"date":"2026-09-04T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453551\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:14:10","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-arrive-in-melbourne-for-historic-nfl-game-against-the-la-rams-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453551\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers arrive in Melbourne for historic NFL game against the LA Rams | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have arrived in Melbourne for their season-opening NFL game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nfl-australia-future-mcg-a5e14b79fcc2f980984a8cabf848319f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be the first of<\/a> many regular-season <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> games in front of its growing Australian fan base.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/san-francisco-49ers-australia-80ca00c891ad244a3b835fe1112572c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200-member traveling party<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nfl-rams-49ers-melbourne-mcg-australia-60083ee0acf1728f63ddc73e1559b3e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MCG.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-rams-preview-2026-4a88f53aad441f070095bc146bc5a92b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rams<\/a> are scheduled to arrive next Thursday, only about 24 hours before the game. The team&#8217;s plan was to attempt to stay as close as possible to its west coast U.S. time zone to avoid jet lag.<\/p>\n<p>The game 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><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/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":453552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[949,179196,8735,101,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-453551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-football","tag-nfl-australia-san-francisco-la-rams","tag-nfl-football","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551","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=453551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}