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Originally posted by susweel:well back then in 1970 when i first got interested in football at age ten, all my stupid iowa friends were fans of the vikings so when i went looking for a favorite team, i thought the niners had cool colors and I liked the name so that is what i picked. Plus the football trading card pictures of vic washington, gene washington and cedrick hardman just looked cool!! for a few years i had two favorite teams with the niners and cardinals but then realized at a young age that you have one fav team and then you hate everyone else.
So how did you become a Niner fan living in Iowa ?
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by susweel:well back then in 1970 when i first got interested in football at age ten, all my stupid iowa friends were fans of the vikings so when i went looking for a favorite team, i thought the niners had cool colors and I liked the name so that is what i picked. Plus the football trading card pictures of vic washington, gene washington and cedrick hardman just looked cool!! for a few years i had two favorite teams with the niners and cardinals but then realized at a young age that you have one fav team and then you hate everyone else.
So how did you become a Niner fan living in Iowa ?
Originally posted by susweel:the 87 season,, was that the year we got ripped off bad bad in washington in the playoffs on some horrid horrid pass interference calls against our guys??
I also became interested in football around the age of 8 or 9 and I just happened to be watching the niners play on TV and they were just destroying the saints. Ever since then I think it was 87 season I have tried to watch every game.
Originally posted by susweel:
Originally posted by cciowa:
in 1973 i sent a letter to the niners saying how much of a fan i was at age 13, They sent me a very nice color team picture , (I gave it my daughter a few years back cuz she is a huge fan at age 25, she freaked out when she saw steve spurrier cuz she hates him). they sent me two nice stickers and a banner.The banner colors were red and yellow!Not sure if you can get that type of response nowadays but for a stupid 13 year old in iowa, it was a pretty big deal
WOW
You are really old.
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by susweel:the 87 season,, was that the year we got ripped off bad bad in washington in the playoffs on some horrid horrid pass interference calls against our guys??
I also became interested in football around the age of 8 or 9 and I just happened to be watching the niners play on TV and they were just destroying the saints. Ever since then I think it was 87 season I have tried to watch every game.
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by susweel:the 87 season,, was that the year we got ripped off bad bad in washington in the playoffs on some horrid horrid pass interference calls against our guys??
I also became interested in football around the age of 8 or 9 and I just happened to be watching the niners play on TV and they were just destroying the saints. Ever since then I think it was 87 season I have tried to watch every game.
Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by susweel:the 87 season,, was that the year we got ripped off bad bad in washington in the playoffs on some horrid horrid pass interference calls against our guys??
I also became interested in football around the age of 8 or 9 and I just happened to be watching the niners play on TV and they were just destroying the saints. Ever since then I think it was 87 season I have tried to watch every game.
1983.
1987 was the year we were stunned by the Vikings in the playoffs.
Originally posted by susweel:
Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by susweel:My youjngest daughter grew up in the steve young era, the oldest in the joe montana era so it used to be and still can be quite the civil war! with interstate 35 in iowa being the mason dixon line since they live on opposite sides of it now!
Im somewhere in the middle of that.
So how did you become a Niner fan living in Iowa ?
Originally posted by cciowa:
well back then in 1970 when i first got interested in football at age ten, all my stupid iowa friends were fans of the vikings so when i went looking for a favorite team, i thought the niners had cool colors and I liked the name so that is what i picked. Plus the football trading card pictures of vic washington, gene washington and cedrick hardman just looked cool!! for a few years i had two favorite teams with the niners and cardinals but then realized at a young age that you have one fav team and then you hate everyone else.
Originally posted by eastie:1978 was probably not a good year to go the games, I guess you could say you saw oj simpson
We got our season tickets in 1978. Do they still send out Christmas cards to season ticket holders. We sold our in 1995 because we moved to far away to go to any games.
Originally posted by 49erFanInTX83:Hello there. I proudly got my 49ers Sports Illustrated issue (the one with the offense lined up, ready to wreak havoc,
Anyone ever done this at any point (be it in the 80s or 90s, when we were more relevant) with any success?
Originally posted by Gore_21:
Originally posted by Cowboyhtr24:
when I was in the 5th grade I wrote to Jerry Rice. I asked for an auto graph pocure of him catching a ball during a game. I was surprised when I received it in the mail!!!!! This was back around 94-95 and I don't remember to what address I sent it to. But it worked!!!!
You sure it wasn't a copy? As a 10-11 year old back in maybe 95-96 I sent in a Jerry Rice football card to get auto'd and I got a black and white photo that was a copy of an autograph that was like a 5x7. Don't remember even getting the card back. Still, I kept it and the envelope it came in for a long long time. Haven't wrote since then.... not sure how it is now
Think this is the card I sent in...
