{"id":70636,"date":"2026-08-12T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/70636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:28:14","slug":"jonas-brothers-headline-act-for-mcgs-historic-nfl-clash-between-49ers-and-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/70636\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Brothers headline act for MCG&#8217;s historic NFL clash between 49ers and Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Jonas Brothers will perform at half-time of the NFL&#8217;s season opener between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The NFL announced the headliners for the half-time show overnight. The game will air on Netflix in Australia on the morning of Friday, September 11. The Jonas Brothers will be part of the entertainment line-up for the league&#8217;s international schedule this season involving seven countries and four continents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be more excited to perform at half-time during the NFL&#8217;s first-ever regular season game in Australia,&#8221; the Jonas Brothers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Playing at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of such passionate Australian fans is an incredible honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Jonas Brothers \u2014 featuring Nick, Joe and Kevin \u2014 have sold more than 20 million albums and recently landed a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Tim Tubito, the NFL&#8217;s senior director of global game presentation and entertainment, said the league&#8217;s first regular season game in Australia is a landmark for the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-03-26\/nfl-comfirms-date-and-time-rams-49ers-mcg\/106496514\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL confirms historic MCG game to be played on AFL semifinal weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The first-ever regular-season NFL game played in Australia has had its date confirmed, with the Melbourne Cricket Ground to host the historic match in the middle of the AFL finals series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The Jonas Brothers are global entertainers whose music connects across generations, making them the ideal artists to help us celebrate this historic game in Melbourne,&#8221; Tubito said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We look forward to delivering a memorable half-time performance for our fans in Australia and those watching around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The NFL game is set to clash with the AFL&#8217;s semifinal weekend when the two losing teams of the qualifying finals will host matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That could cause headaches for the AFL if those two teams are Victorian clubs, with Hawthorn likely to finish top four and Melbourne and Geelong still in the hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jonas Brothers will perform at half-time of the NFL&#8217;s season opener between the San Francisco 49ers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96516,21170,29426,260,26385,3561,50181],"class_list":["post-70636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-jonas-brothers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mcg","tag-melbourne","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}