GREEN BAY — You won’t need to worry about whether you Parlez-vous français or Sprechen Sie Deutsch if you’re a Green Bay Packers fan in 2026, but you might want to brush up on the lyrics to Randy Newman’s iconic Los Angeles anthem, “I Love L.A.!” before the Thanksgiving holiday. 

In advance of their full schedule release on Thursday, the NFL announced its full nine-game slate of international games on Wednesday, and its inaugural prime-time Wednesday-before-Thanksgiving game. And while the Packers weren’t selected for either of the two overseas games they might’ve played in — matchups with the New Orleans Saints and NFC North-rival Detroit Lions — they are set to face the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Nov. 25.

Packers-Rams will be streamed on Netflix, meaning fans in the Madison television market won’t be able to see the game without a Netflix subscription. The Packers have two designated home TV markets as part of the NFL’s broadcast rights policy — the Green Bay/Fox Cities market and the Milwaukee market — and NFL rules allow a local over-the-air station in each of those markets to carry the game.

NFL rules also prohibit teams from playing two games with less than three days in between, so the Packers and Rams cannot play the previous Sunday, on Nov. 22.

That means the Packers will either have their bye week the previous week, or they’ll play their assigned “Thursday Night Football” game on Amazon Prime the previous week.

The game marks the sixth time Packers head coach Matt LaFleur will face Rams head coach Sean McVay, his closest friend in football. LaFleur holds a 5-0 record against McVay, including a win at Lambeau Field in a 2020 NFC Divisional Playoff matchup.

The game will also be just the second time in team history that the Packers have played on a Wednesday. The other time? In 1938, when they faced the Chicago Cardinals in Buffalo, N.Y.

On the international front, the Saints are the designated home team for the Paris game, which will be played on Oct. 25 against the Pittsburgh Steelers — coached by ex-Packers head coach Mike McCarthy and possibly quarterbacked by former Packers four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers — in Paris at Stade de France.

The Lions, meanwhile, will play quasi-host to the New England Patriots on Nov. 15 in Munich at FC Bayern Munich Stadium, home of the iconic German soccer team.

The NFL’s full schedule release is slated for Thursday evening. As of now, the matchup with the Rams is the Packers’ only publicly-known game.

The Packers do know their opponents, of course.

In addition to their home-and-home series with their traditional NFC North division rivals, the Lions, Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings, they’re set to play the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys at home, and face the Saints, Patriots, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Rams on the road.

Packers team president/CEO Ed Policy told CheeseheadTV late last month that he had heard the Lions had protected their matchup with the Packers from being shipped across the pond, wanting the game to be played at Ford Field given the importance of the divisional showdown.

“The NFL wouldn’t tell us, we don’t know this, it’s not announced, but somebody from the Lions had mentioned they protected that game and they want to play the Packers at home,” Policy told the site. “I understand why. I would gladly play them in Munich. My understanding is that is not going to happen. I can’t confirm that.”

The NFL confirmed it on Wednesday, although it’s unclear if the Saints felt the same way about wanting the Packers, whose fans are famous for traveling well, to come to the Big Easy instead of meeting them at the Eiffel Tower.

But as disappointed as some worldwide traveling Packers fans might’ve been, it’s a safe bet that head coach Matt LaFleur was more than fine with Wednesday’s news, given his clear dislike for international games.

LaFleur did very little to hide the fact that he didn’t like the team having to go across the pond to face the New York Giants leading up to that 2022 game, saying he wouldn’t speak about his true feelings about the trip and confessed that his previous two London games — as the Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator in 2017 and as the Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator in 2018 — were not enjoyable experiences.

“I didn’t leave the hotel either time,” LaFleur said. “You just go there, you try to get your work done and then rest up when you can. And [then] you go out and do your job to the best of your ability.”

Asked about the trip before departing, LaFleur said, “I think the whole point when you go over there is, at least with your preparation schedule, try to stay as consistent as you would on normal weeks — even though it’s nothing like a normal week.”

The, he added, “Hopefully [the players] can go back in the offseason” — but not in a joking manner.

Rodgers even went so far as to call LaFleur “grumpy” when the team arrived in London after its transatlantic flight.

LaFleur at least feigned a more positive attitude about the team’s matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles in São Paulo, Brazil to kick off the 2024 season — a game the Packers lost, 34-29, and watched quarterback Jordan Love depart with a knee injury that forced him to miss the next two games.

“We will embrace this, absolutely,” LaFleur said unconvincingly leading into the game. “I know it is a long flight, it is a long trip, but it’s the same for both teams.”

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