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Rams Coach Sean McVay Sees Late Travel to Australia for Season Opener as Best Course of Action
The 49ers are using the early arrival to adjust to jet lag and stage community events before the NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia.
- On Friday at 10:35 a.m. local time, the NFL makes its regular-season Australian debut at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where a capacity crowd of around 100,000 is expected.
- The San Francisco 49ers arrived in Melbourne last Friday to spend one week acclimating, shipping about 13 pallets of bottled water from Hawaii and 60,000 pounds of bulk equipment.
- Departing Southern California on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Rams will arrive approximately 24 hours before kickoff, intending to disregard jet lag by maintaining Pacific time.
- On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers promoted long snapper Jon Weeks to the 53-man roster, while defensive end Khalid Kareem joined after a nearly 23-hour journey spanning 10,000 miles.
- In May, the NFL approved plans to play up to 10 international games annually starting in 2027, with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressing interest in having every team play one international game each season.
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Rams coach Sean McVay sees late travel to Australia for season opener as best course of action
Sean McVay has never been afraid to buck conventional NFL logic, and he is doing so once again with the Los Angeles Rams’ unusual travel plans for their season opener in Australia.
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Rams are betting they can beat jet lag by ignoring it in wild 16-hour Australia gamble
By Thursday evening, we'll know whether McVay's unusual experiment is remembered as brilliant sports science or second-guessed on their journey all the way back across the Pacific.
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