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49ers Year-by-Year: 2002
In this week's installment of the Year-by-Year, we're taking on 2002. 2001 had been a breakthrough year for the rebuilding 49ers, and 2002 was set up to be a banner year for a franchise rediscovering its identity. However, any success the team seemed to come by was marred in controversy. Whether...
49ers Year-by-Year: 2001
I want to reintroduce everybody to the Year-by-Year feature on the website. This is my second comeback in the last month or so, and this one should be for good. I have been going through every 49ers season since the team's inception in 1946 and writing full summaries of some of the most important...
49ers Year-by-Year: 2000
After a relatively long hiatus, the Year-by-Feature is back with a vengeance. It has been a while since I've been able to give you one of these and it might be a few more weeks before I can give you another, but I wanted to strike while I had a little free time from the holiday season and my own...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1999
1999 wasn't the beginning of the end for the 49ers' storied dynasty. It was an affirmation of the end. With the loss of Steve Young and the continued absence of Garrison Hearst, the San Francisco 49ers discovered that their talent had diminished to the point where success was unsustainable. But as...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1997
Welcome to the 1997 edition of the 49ers Year-by-Year. Many probably remember this as the season that Warren Sapp took down Steve Young and Jerry Rice in one game, but the rest of the season was - for the most part - a true triumph for the aging, evolving 49ers franchise. Do you know know what...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1993
So, after a weeklong vacation and then a week long of ridiculously unreliable access to the internet, I - along with my Year-by-Year series - am back with a vengeance. This week we tackle the 1993 season (you see what I did there?), which was the team's first true season without Joe Montana. After...
49ers All-Time Safety #2
In a less than stunning result, Roger Craig is running away with the vote at running back at a whopping 71%. Frank Gore is second at 14%, but I'd imagine in the coming years that vote total will only go up. I thought we'd switch things up and go over to the defensive side of the ball for this...
49ers All-Time Safety #2
The voting is in and people seem to prefer we go with two general safety positions, instead of a free safety and a strong safety. We all know who the #1 all-time safety will be. However, I'm a big fan of voting so we'll hold off on naming him and let you guys vote on the #2 safety. Given that...
ANY GIVEN FRIDAY: Bye, Bye
Welcome to ‘Any Given Friday’, where the divisional round of the playoffs is traditionally our favorite week of the season, where we can’t understand how a guy who just got fired from the Jets has a new job already while a guy who just interviewed for the Jets opening has been...
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