While most San Francisco 49ers fans are still devastated by the loss to the New York Giants in the NFC Championship, incredibly, I was over it the day after. Don't get me wrong, that night I was in disbelief at what might have been. If only a call had gone our way. If only a fumble had not occurred. We were so very close to fighting for one more Lombardi...

The long anticipated path to this years Super Bowl that was to run through Candlestick Park for the NFC Championship abruptly ended for us as San Francisco 49er faithful everywhere witnessed the catastrophic events unfold following the Kyle Williams fumble in overtime. Gasps of air could be heard and seen as an entire season of aspirations and dreams...

As I write this, it's the morning after. Needless to say, I didn't sleep well. I tossed and I turned, lost in the same haze that started as soon as that ball hit the turf. When I awoke for good, my first thought—absurd, but sincere—was hope. Hope, that I'd merely been dreaming. That thought, of course, was...

As the ball fell from the grasps of Kyle Williams' hands, so too did my heart. This was the greatest season of 49ers football that I have ever been so lucky enough to witness. Albeit I'm still in my late teens and this was the first true taste of 49er glory that I experienced. Since watching the 49ers, all I ever knew was losing. Growing up as a young San...

Offensive units are often given the lion's share of credit for their team's overall success. The days when play calls consisted of running the ball often and throwing only when necessary, are long gone. Offenses have evolved; the passing game has become the integral part in a team's success, and has been utilized to an extent not previously seen. This...

Before the season started, had you told me that the San Francisco 49ers would be in the NFC Championship game, I would have asked you if you had forgotten to take your medication. Yet here they are, just one glorious step away from sports' biggest stage, the Super Bowl. What is interesting is the cast that got them to this point. As far as the...

This was an epic and monumental playoff victory that will go down as one of the very best in San Francisco 49er history reminiscent of the Catch where legendary superstar Joe Montana hit Dwight Clark in the end zone for victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Even still very much like the Catch II in the Steve Young last second gasp to Terrell Owens in the end...

In their own ways, they are both sons of California. Aaron Rodgers entered the world on December 2, 1983. Born in Chico, California and a graduate of Pleasant Valley High School, Rodgers is a California original. A little over five hundred and ninety miles to the southeast of Chico is La Mesa, California. On May 7, 1984, amongst the rain and the...

He had to produce just one more score. And Alex Smith just couldn't do it. By and large, the game had gone according to plan. The Saints' opening march was terrifying, but Donte Whitner both saved a touchdown and sent a message: the Saints might have one of the best offenses ever, but they wouldn't be leaving without some...

More than any fan base in the NFL, 49er fans know a thing or two about great quarterback play. Old timers will bring up Y.A. Tittle. Gen Xers will talk for hours on end about the heroics of Joe Montana and Steve Young. For the 17 years from 1981 to 1998, the 49er dynasty was led by a Hall of Fame QB…a boast that no team can match. The...

Disclaimer: This isn't an attempt to argue Alex Smith is a better player than Aaron Rodgers. What I'm asking myself as I write this is the following: what if Aaron Rodgers had been selected #1 overall by the San Francisco 49ers back on April 23, 2005?...

When it mattered most, he delivered. The man, nearly run out of town prior to the year's start, is now much to thank for the 49ers first playoff victory in a near decade. A level of confidence in the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers has been instilled in fans for the first time since Alex Smith's arrival in 2005, as Smith came through in the direst of...

It is not that long ago following the St. Louis Rams comeback in the fourth quarter for a total of seventeen points back in the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri that we need to be concerned with having some rust proofing done to our league wide known defensive steel wall. If the St. Louis Rams are able, you darn well can count on the most explosive...

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Both objects are assumed to be indestructible. It is a paradox that has been asked for centuries. On Saturday, January 14, we may finally have an answer. The New Orleans Saints, a team with one of the most potent offenses in the NFL, will travel to San Francisco to face the...

Leaving the playing field of Candlestick Park on September 20th 2010, the San Francisco 49ers were a defeated group. They came tantalizingly close to knocking off the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football, a feat which would have undoubtedly instilled confidence into the 2010 49ers. San Francisco 49ers players and fans...

Truth be told, in general, I am not a man of faith. Wait, wait. Don't panic. I'm not gonna talk about that kind of faith, the kind by which a certain quarterback (hint: his initials are T.T.) has distracted the masses from his own incompetence. I'm talking about a different faith. A faith that is, to some at least, the very...

The falling of the axe, the handing out of pink slips, call it what you may, this is the time of the year when head football coaches are shown the door. Head coaches who have failed to deliver a level of success that would justify them retaining their jobs, are relieved of their duties, as everything boils down to wins. This annual occurrence, which is...

Fans of the San Francisco 49ers have been on quite the ride the past nine seasons. Yet little do they know, after years of screaming "Are we there yet?" that their ride has just begun. Thanks to Silverado Stages and their SportsFanExpress shuttle service, you don't have to be left behind! On January 14, 2012, the San Francisco 49ers will be...

Blossoming into a marquee NFL event, the draft held annually at Radio City Music Hall has been pegged as "Christmas morning" for football fans. The less-sexy latter rounds of the draft is a time when the average-Joe fan has long since lost interest, and television ratings are significantly down from the 'primetime' rounds. Teams are rummaging through what...

To the disliked Seattle Seahawks it was a must win playoff game do or die. To the San Francisco 49ers it was all about playing to secure better seeding and to experience the true nature of a desperate team struggling to stay within contention. This was a slugfest of enormous proportions in that both teams laid it all out on the playing field and via the...