Originally posted by GNielsen:
Originally posted by Jakemall:
They were not one and done. I'm not sure if you were or were not around to remember...but in 84 they were a VERY good team. I was really nervous about that championship game. The following season (85) they were unbeatable (maybe that is what he means by the "definition of dominance") and in 86 they still went 14-2 and then 11-4 then 12-4....
I wouldn't call that one and done.
Oh, I assure you that I was around. And I remember exactly what happened.
One championship and then done - no more championships. They had one great season, but they weren't "unbeatable." They lost a game. And they played in a very weak division. That year, they were the only NFC Central team with a winning record. I know the myth is that the West was the weakest division, but the Niners actually had to play a division rival in the playoffs one year to win a championship.
As opposed to one championship in 1981 and then 3 more before the decade is through. That's why the Niners are known as the "Team of the Decade." I'm not sure where you're coming from, but the only fans in the country who even try to pretend that the 80's were not the Niners' decade are Bears fans, who keep on trying to perpetuate this myth that they were the most dominate team in those days. The Niners beat them in 1984 in the playoffs 23-0. I was not only around , but I was at the game. The Bears couldn't even begin to move the ball on that '84 Niner defense which was the best in the league. The NIners average margin of victory that year was 15.5 compared to the Bears 4.8. In '86, they again had a pedestrian offense that was in the middle of the pack and they got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs. By '87, they still had a mediocre offense, but people were figuring out that defense and it was basically over. They again got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs. And by the way, by 87, they didn't even have the best defense anymore. The Niners defense was #1 in the league in '87 and the Bears were fifth or sixth.
Again, only one and done if you're talking about SBs. The author specifically addressed that.
As for their 1985 season, they didn't have a super easy SOS...despite what their division might have been. They also destroyed the teams they played in the play-offs. The one game they lost? The Miami Dolphins who had just finished losing to the 9ers in the previous superbowl..so it wasn't a pushover team..what's more, the fins had the help of a muffed punt by the bears. Stuff happens. Heck of a season, I find it amusing you're trying to diminish what they did.
No question the niners were the best team of the decade...but the bears were so dominant that one year that people remember it to this day. No one outside of niner fans and football gurus remember which was the most dominant 9er team of the 80s..