Pro Football Talk, 49ers Worst Moments: I Call Shenanigans

As pointed out above three year stretches aren’t exactly “moments” and even if you are going to allow that kind of thing I’m not even sure it would qualify as “worst” experiences for the 49ers. While it stunk watching the same team knock the 49ers out of the play-offs every year that still seems like the type of thing I would classify as “rich guy problems.” After the struggles the 49ers have had in the last decade, having three straight winning seasons where the team falls short of the Super Bowl doesn’t seem doesn’t seem all that painful to me.

I doubt Bills fans are sitting around Buffalo thinking “boy things are tough now but at least we’re not losing in the Super Bowl ever year anymore.”

1. Closest team in SB era to ever to three-peat and had the game won
2. Ended the Joe Montana era (not to mention a few others)
3. Craig fumble is still hard to accept

1987 Divisional Playoff to the Vikings was the most disgusting. Combination of the 49ers playing their worst game (Montana’s worst) and the Vikings playing their best. The 49ers could have and probably should have won 4 SBs between 1987-1990. At least lost to another great team in the Giants in 1990 (still don’t know why Buffalo was heavily favored in the SB).

I would say the hail marry and all the other fortuitous bounces the Falcons got over the 49ers in 1991 to keep them out of playoffs is above Green Bay in the mid 90’s. All the Green Bay losses show is how Steve Young was no Joe Montana. The 49ers lost those games on offense, I didn’t even bother to watch the ‘96 and ’97 championship games because I knew Steve and offense could not get it done. Young was better ’90-’94 but fell predictably flat in big games for the rest of his career.

“Cody Pickett, starting NFL quarterback” might be somewhere along our team’s darkest moments.

Also, what about Garrison Hearst’s ankle injury against Atlanta in the 1998 playoffs? That sucked.

gotta take him with a grain of salt

Garrison Hearst going down really hurt. Finally beating the Packers, and then the balloon basically popped when he went down on that first play. He was becoming such a good player. It was so painful to watch the rest of that game.

Was the worst moment of the last 20 years. That Falcons’ hail mary in ‘91 makes the list too as does the injury to Hearst. I’d also mention the blown pass interference call in the Pittsburgh game in ’84. Would have loved for them to have gone 19-0. But the top worst moment of my time as a 49er fan is the 1990 NFC Championship game. Still not over that.

Thanks for letting me know why it wasn’t on the PFT list. It may not make the PFT list but their list is terrible anyway. I’ll just stick with my own.

Drafting Smith over Rogers….