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49ers 27, Rams 7. First NFL game in Australia. 100,021 at the MCG.
Purdy three scores. Stafford stuffed at the 1. The Rams flew in Thursday. It showed.
The Rocket News · Sports · MelbourneSeptember 12, 2026 · 4 min read
Brock Purdy threw three touchdown passes. Mike Evans, Demarcus Robinson and Deebo Samuel caught them. San Francisco beat the Rams 27-7 on Friday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia. The crowd was 100,021, seventh-largest in a regular-season book. The Sports desk files a hemisphere.
Kyren Williams scored the first Australian NFL touchdown. Los Angeles did not score again. Matthew Stafford went 15 of 25 for 155. Raheem Morris’s defense stuffed a fourth-down sneak from the 1. Purdy: 205 yards. The 49ers had been in Melbourne a week. The Rams landed Thursday. Samuel, on Channel Seven: “I don’t think you can fly 16 hours and be ready to play.”
I don’t think you can fly 16 hours and be ready to play.
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Sunday’s slate is 13 games. Mahomes is due Monday against Denver. The Sports desk files 27-7 as the first one Down Under, not the last.
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