Yes. There is an NFL game tonight in Week 1, but it is not the usual Thursday Night Football package. The San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams will meet in Melbourne, Australia, and U.S. viewers will watch it live on Netflix.
The game will air Sept. 10 at 8:35 p.m. Eastern Time and 5:35 p.m. Pacific Time, which is 10:35 a.m. on Sept. 11 in Melbourne. Netflix has branded the matchup the NFL Melbourne Game in its official press releases, making it a rare Thursday-night broadcast that sits outside Amazon’s 2026 rights and outside the league’s Thursday Night Football label.
That distinction is why the search is spiking today. Thursday Night Football is not back until Week 2, so the game most viewers would expect to find on Amazon Prime Video is not there. Instead, the second game of the 2026 NFL season and Week 1 slate is being carried live by Netflix nationwide, while the league has already pushed its annual NFL Kickoff game up to Wednesday, Sept. 9.
The schedule creates a neat but unusual split: the game is on Thursday night in the United States, yet it is being played the next morning in Melbourne and does not count as an official Thursday Night Football game. For fans, that means the answer to the nightly question is yes, there is NFL football on, but the channel and the branding are different from what the league has trained them to expect.
What comes next is simpler. Thursday Night Football returns in Week 2, and the one-night exception ends as soon as it began.
