{"id":749608,"date":"2026-02-13T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:07:14","slug":"potential-dates-revealed-for-49ers-rams-game-in-melbourne-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749608\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential dates revealed for 49ers-Rams game in Melbourne, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Slowly but surely, we are getting all of the information about the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 matchup with the Los Angeles Rams i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-schedule\/155997\/the-49ers-are-headed-down-under-to-play-the-rams-next-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">n Melbourne, Australia<\/a>. Earlier this week, a report surfaced that the game would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-schedule\/156163\/49ers-rams-historic-matchup-set-to-take-place-in-week-1-per-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take place in Week 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The same reporter, John Ourand of Puck, is now reporting that the 49ers-Rams game will be played on Wednesday, September 9, or Thursday, September 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL has generally reserved Thursday for the Super Bowl champions to play their season opener. Could the NFL change its schedule and move Seattle\u2019s game to Wednesday, with the Australia game on Thursday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Either way, both teams would get a couple of days of travel back to help reset their body clocks and prepare for Week 2, while a Week 1 game would allow them to travel to Melbourne as early as they see fit to get used to practicing and adjusting to that time zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slowly but surely, we are getting all of the information about the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 matchup with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,11446,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-749608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-schedule","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116064187676177972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}