Golden Nuggets: A whole assortment of random links

… in any case, the GM has already ruled it out, hasn’t he? It seems to me, as someone who pores over every word on the web about the Niners, that the local media (Maicco, Barrows, the Chronicle, even the NFC West blog on ESPN to an extent) are the only ones worth looking at. Every mention of the Niners in the US national media just seems to be written by people who have no real clue what’s going on with the team and just lazily toss out assertions like “the 49ers haven’t got a QB so probably they will go for Vick”. That’s it? That’s the argument? Without even bothering to look up that the club have said they are definitively not pursuing him?

I’m in the UK and I don’t find it hard to follow what’s going on with the Niners, and it’s not my job – I follow the news because I love it, in and amongst a 60-hour week which is my actual work. Imagine if I was, firstly, in the US, and, secondly, had a job writing about the sport. I reckon I’d just about be able to broadly track 32 teams. I might even enjoy it, instead of coming across as a bored hack, throwing out lazy cliches.

and say that I would like to see Michael Vick as a 49er. I don’t know why, I just would.

Ok, I do know why. I think it would be nice to have a Michael Vick Wildcat package for about 10 plays per game.

And another thing, Michael Vick was the first guy to go into Lambeau Field and beat Brett Favre in a Playoff game. Thank you Michael Silver, for reminding me! I like players that can beat the Packers in the playoffs. Wonder why I’m a Niner fan? ;)