Medalla

Gridiron

American football lands in Australia: the NFL plays its first regular-season game on Australian soil, the Los Angeles Rams against the San Francisco 49ers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a hundred-thousand-seat stadium built for a completely different sport. Why the league keeps exporting games abroad, what happens when a cricket ground is remade into a gridiron, how Australian fans found the sport, and what the NFL is really buying when it plays a regular-season game on the far side of the world