PREP: 49ERS VS RAMS TNF ON NETFLIX. MELBOURNE. HOLD SCORE.

SPORT DESK — PREP / preview Extra. Thursday Night Football Week 1: San Francisco 49ers versus Los Angeles Rams, live from Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia. Kickoff locked at 8:35 p.m. ET / 5:35 p.m. PT on Thursday, 10 September 2026 — Friday 10:35 a.m. local in Melbourne. Broadcast: Netflix. This slug is PREVIEW only. HOLD the final score until the whistle. Never invent a score. PATH /sport/nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf. DESK_ID nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf.

Schedule shelf, verified. NFL Operations 2026 regular-season calendar lists Thursday, 10 September: San Francisco 49ers vs Los Angeles Rams (Melbourne), 8:35 p.m., Netflix. Netflix Tudum matches the same kick window and names Melbourne Cricket Ground as the venue — the NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia. ESPN’s game page for event 401872657 (49ers-rams) is the cross-check URL for this desk; Extra does not scrape live scoreboards into this PREP file. Pregame coverage on Netflix is listed from 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT on the Tudum how-to-watch note.

PREP only. Melbourne. Netflix. 8:35 p.m. ET. Hold the score until the whistle.

How to watch — subscription line only. Tudum: an active Netflix plan carries the Melbourne game with no separate pay-per-view add-on. Club how-to-watch notes (therams.com) also flag local Los Angeles over-the-air paths beside the Netflix stream; Extra does not inventory every affiliate feed. In-booth names as published by the clubs and Tudum: Noah Eagle on play-by-play, Luke Kuechly as analyst; sideline Tom Pelissero and MJ Acosta-Ruiz; studio led by Elle Duncan. Halftime performer named on Tudum: the Jonas Brothers. Those are billing lines, not a review.

Rivalry frame without a ledger. NFC West rivals open 0–0. This is not a SoFi home date and not a Levi’s home date — it is a neutral-site international opener on the MCG’s football oval. Extra keeps the geography honest: Melbourne, not Los Angeles. The “@” shorthand in casual chatter does not rewrite the NFL’s Melbourne listing.

Injury notes — named only where the official Week 1 report carries them. NFL.com injuries / 2026 REG1 for Thursday’s Netflix game: Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald is listed Out with practice status “Did Not Participate — not injury related / resting player.” Rams pass rusher Myles Garrett is Full Participation. Rams CB Jaylen Watson is Limited. On the 49ers side the same official table lists limited practice participation for DE Nick Bosa, TE George Kittle, FB Kyle Juszczyk, LB Dre Greenlaw, and several others, with DT Alfred Collins Did Not Participate; Extra does not invent Out/Doubtful tags the league table does not print for those names, and does not invent snap counts. Separate NFL.com news roundups have carried Collins’s season-ending patellar-tendon line — logged as that desk’s attribution, not as a fresh gameday Out stamp beyond the practice table.

What this PREP refuses. No final score. No invented Q1–Q4 board. No fake injury Out list. No claim that Netflix requires a pay-per-view upcharge when Tudum says the opposite. No merge with other Week 1 kickoff files. No branding-card disclaimer meta on this page. AdSense slots stay untouched by this Extra.

Still and rights. Hero: Melbourne Cricket Ground viewed from the city — Peter Ellis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), 17 November 2010. Archival venue plate. Caption must say 2010 / not game day. Official club crests are permitted on this desk when used as marks; this PREP leads with the MCG still. VIDEO=no. No AI imagery.

CLAIM vs CONFIRMED. CONFIRMED for PREP: Week 1 TNF; 49ers vs Rams; Melbourne Cricket Ground; kickoff 8:35 p.m. ET Thursday 10 September 2026; Netflix; first Australia regular-season NFL game per league/Netflix framing; ESPN gameId 401872657 cross-check; Aaron Donald Out (resting / not injury related) on the official injury table; practice-participation lines as printed there. NOT here: any final score, any invented inactives beyond the named Out line, any live drive chart. FALSE framing — do not use: “Nth Meridian posts the final” before whistle. Nailed down, 10 September 2026, 03:10 GMT. PATH /sport/nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf. DESK_ID nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf. Beat SPORT / TNF PREP EXTRA. Verification: NFL Operations schedule; Netflix Tudum Melbourne how-to-watch; ESPN game page 401872657; NFL.com Week 1 injury report — verification only. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent scores.

DESK_ID nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf. Canonical /sport/nfl-49ers-rams-netflix-tnf. Filed 10 September 2026, 03:10 GMT. PREP / preview — HOLD score. Verification: NFL Operations 2026 REG schedule (Melbourne / Netflix / 8:35 p.m.); Netflix Tudum www.netflix.com/tudum/features/nfl-melbourne-game-2026-how-to-watch ; ESPN www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872657/49ers-rams ; NFL.com injuries 2026/reg1 — verification only, do not republish. Photo: Peter Ellis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) — MCG from city, 17 Nov 2010, not game day. VIDEO=no. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent scores.