BOX SCORE SANTA CLARA — The postseason of living dangerously continued for the 49ers on Sunday. The 49ers looked helpless for the first 30 minutes. After that, they looked nearly unstoppable. The 49ers picked it up in every area — just as they did a week earlier — and Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell made a couple of decisions that completely backfired. The 49ers rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit to pull out a stranger-than-fiction 34-31 victory over the Lions in the NFC Championship Game, propelling the franchise to its eighth trip to the Super Bowl. The 49ers will meet the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, Feb. 11, in Las Vegas. The Chiefs advanced with a 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. The 49ers trailed 24-7 at halftime at Levi's Stadium and were getting steamrolled in every facet of the game. For history buffs, however, there was some hope for the 49ers. These franchises met in a 1957 playoff game long before any of these combatants were around. On that day, the 49ers led 24-7 at halftime. As the story goes, the Lions could hear their opponent celebrating on the other side of the thin walls...
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