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NN NFL Tournament of Badness Winner: Dallas Cowboys Being America's Team
For many of you, there was never a doubt in your mind. The one-seeded top entry in the bracket "Dallas Being Referred To As America's Team" destroyed everything in its path to claim the title of badness. Many of you called it, and none of us are surprised. I do think this goes much farther than "a...
NN NFL Tournament of Badness FINALS: Dallas Cowboys Being 'America's Team' and Too Many Commercials
This is it. We've reached the end of the Niners Nation NFL Tournament of Badness. I started this two months ago during the lockout, in an effort to get something fun going on here and occupy some front page space. I didn't expect to get into it as much as I did, but now I'm itching to see which...
NN NFL Tournament of Badness Final Four: Cowboys Being America's Team and Brett Favre's Media Whoring
I took a couple days off for this Tournament of Badness, but we're back. In the last match, "Score, Commercial, Kickoff, Commercial" dispatched The Brady Rule rather handily, and advanced to the final four. I picked the former to win the whole tournament and I stand by that prediction. In the end,...
NN NFL Tournament of Badness Elite Eight: Dallas Cowboys, America's Team and The Prevent Defense
We've come a long way in the Niners Nation NFL Tournament of Badness, and we've now reached the final eight entrants, the "Elite Eight", if you will. Elite in badness and general ridiculousness alike, these eight entrants are some of the very worst in the National Football League. You can view how...
NN NFL Tournament of Badness: Cowboys Being 'America's Team' and New Referee Rules
We've reached the final sixteen in the Niners Nation NFL Tournament of Badness. Three number one seeds remain, and one of them is in action today. To catch up, we've got the links at the ends of these posts, and you can always view the full bracket to see where we're at. Yesterday, the two-seeded...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1981
What follows is a brief historical summary of the 49ers 1981 season. 1981 needs no introduction. Just three years into Bill Walsh's tenure as head coach, the 49ers not only reach the Super Bowl, they win it. Read on to see exactly how it happened. And then learn something about Fred...















