At 10:35 on a Friday morning, the Melbourne Cricket Ground looked less like an unlikely home for American football and more like a venue the NFL had been waiting to use. A crowd of 100,021 packed the MCG on September 11 to watch the San Francisco 49ers beat the Los Angeles Rams 27-7 in Australia’s first NFL regular-season game. The result was fairly one-sided. The size of the crowd was the bigger story. The NFL arrived in Melbourne with a simple…
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