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Los Angeles Rams stars are facing a grueling 15-hour flight to Australia to begin their new NFL season - but they are travelling in style.
The Super Bowl favorites face the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne on Thursday night (Friday morning local time) and took off on their epic journey after completing practice on Tuesday.
Star linebacker Byron Young took to social media to share a glimpse inside the Airbus A380 plane the team chartered to take them Down Under.
The 49ers also chartered the same type of plane, presumably with the same comforts, as they made the same journey but far earlier, opting to travel last week to acclimatize to the conditions.
Young laughed on his Instagram story as he boarded the aircraft, saying: 'I'm feeling boujee right now,' before flicking the camera round to show the spacious, fully reclining seats each player had.
Each seat featured a Qantas blanket in Rams colors, as well as pillows and a full personal entertainment screen and space to make themselves comfortable.
Byron Young was impressed by the Rams plane taking them to Australia for Week 1
Young shared footage inside the spacious aircraft chartered to take the NFL team Down Under
Each fully reclining seat had a Qantas blanket in Rams colors as well as pillows
'Full-size, this crazy,' Young added. 'Two-floor, double-decker. So boujee.'
The Rams are opting for an in-and-out trip to try and keep the body from realizing where it is and trying to adapt.
Head coach Sean McVay explained: 'We'll sleep through the night, and then we'll get there and have kind of a rhythm. They've got full lay-flat beds. All of our players have that.
'It's about keeping guys in their normal rhythm and routine. Everything that we do, I would hope our guys know that everything we do is what we think is best.'
In total, the Rams will spend about 30 hours on an airplane to travel more than 15,000 miles.
McVay's team will land back in LA around midday on Friday, local time, after being away from the city for less than 72 hours.
The Rams head coach defended the decision with reporters this week without going into too much detail.
'It doesn´t mean that we think we´re right and a different approach is wrong,' McVay said.
'It´s just what we think is best based on the things that we´ve done and what we've learned over our time here.'
The 49ers arrived in Melbourne days before the Rams decided to make the journey
The two teams will play at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in their Week 1 matchup
The San Francisco 49ers took the early-bird approach by flying out across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, September 2 before landing on Friday morning in Melbourne.
The Rams also opted to do things differently last year when playing against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London, arriving Saturday before winning on Sunday and quickly returning home.
However, that trip began from America's East Coast because the Rams played the Ravens in Baltimore a week earlier. As a result, the travel was dramatically reduced compared to this week's globetrotting business trip.
'I feel like we're just keeping it as normal as we possibly can,' quarterback Matthew Stafford said.
'Sunday [is] like a Wednesday for us in our world. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, hop on the plane and go. We obviously have experience with doing it [in a] different direction, all that kind of stuff, I understand last year in London, but it felt like it worked out for us.'
The Rams and 49ers will kickoff from the Melbourne Cricket Ground at 8.35pm EST on Thursday in the US.
