GREEN BAY \u2014 You won\u2019t need to worry about whether you Parlez-vous fran\u00e7ais 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\u2019s iconic Los Angeles anthem, \u201cI Love L.A.!\u201d before the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u2019t selected for either of the two overseas games they might\u2019ve played in \u2014 matchups with the New Orleans Saints and NFC North-rival Detroit Lions \u2014 they are set to face the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n
Packers-Rams will be streamed on Netflix, meaning fans in the Madison television market won\u2019t be able to see the game without a Netflix subscription. The Packers have two designated home TV markets as part of the NFL\u2019s broadcast rights policy \u2014 the Green Bay\/Fox Cities market and the Milwaukee market \u2014 and NFL rules allow a local over-the-air station in each of those markets to carry the game.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
That means the Packers will either have their bye week the previous week, or they\u2019ll play their assigned \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d game on Amazon Prime the previous week.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 coached by ex-Packers head coach Mike McCarthy and possibly quarterbacked by former Packers four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers \u2014 in Paris at Stade de France.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The NFL\u2019s full schedule release is slated for Thursday evening. As of now, the matchup with the Rams is the Packers\u2019 only publicly-known game.<\/p>\n
The Packers do know their opponents, of course.<\/p>\n
In addition to their home-and-home series with their traditional NFC North division rivals, the Lions, Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings, they\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n