I was at dinner with a big group of people last night — some I knew, some I didn’t — when the conversation took a turn toward sports. I still love the topic, which makes sense considering I write on a sports website and tweet about sports all day. But in this instance it got […]
Not that any 49ers fans want this wound reopened, but you had to know the 49ers’ Super Bowl 47 loss would get brought up after the world watched Seattle lose in quite a similar fashion Sunday. Brent Jones joined Ray Ratto and Tom Tolbert on KNBR Monday afternoon to talk about the ending of the […]
The 49ers were down 34-29. The Seahawks were down 28-24. The 49ers started at their own 20. The Seahawks started at their own 20. The 49ers’ first play was an eight-yard run by Frank Gore. The Seahawks’ first play was a 31-yard pass down the left sideline to Marshawn Lynch. Gore rushed 33 yards to Baltimore’s seven-yard […]
The Seahawks have made a habit of collecting 49ers castoffs. Michael Robinson and Will Tukuafu blocked for Marshawn Lynch. B.J. Daniels is still on Seattle’s roster (checks roster on Seahawks.com — yeah, he’s still there). Demarcus Dobbs played snaps in the Super Bowl, as did … Ricardo Lockette. Yes, the guy who 49ers fans know […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights pioneer who was assassinated. Russell Wilson is a football player who overcame four interceptions to pull out a conference title game, thanks to an all-time choke job by the Packers. The Seahawks deleted this tweet in which they turned an MLK quote into a Wilson meme, but […]
TMZ spends a lot of time reporting on things that don’t matter, but occasionally frivolous “news” items can still provide enjoyment. Case in point: they brought us a fantastic report (and video) from CenturyLink Field that had nothing to do with the Seahawks’ inevitable march to a second straight Super Bowl win (sorry, but you know it’s true). […]
The San Francisco 49ers did an awful lot of winning under Jim Harbaugh, which made every loss they faced seem so much more insurmountable. Harbaugh’s team took a couple very rough beats between 2011 and 2014, but one of them now stands out as the defining loss to which you could trace every fallen domino […]
It went better than we had any right to expect. The 49ers were 10-point underdogs for a reason, and I couldn’t have been the only one who was floored when they took a 7-3 lead into halftime, after Russell Wilson through a very un-Russ like interception that Eric Reid almost returned a looooong way for […]
Former San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Holmgren is highly interested in becoming the 49ers’ next head coach, according to a source who spoke with Holmgren. Whether or not that means anything remains to be seen. The job isn’t open (yet). It’s unknown whether Jed York and Trent Baalke would look toward Holmgren, who has 17 seasons […]
The Seahawks traded Percy Harvin to the Jets today for a conditional draft pick. This was a stunning move, since midseason trades are rare in the NFL — especially for a well-known, expensive player like Harvin. Seattle traded their 2013 first round pick, a seventh-rounder and a 2014 third round choice to the Vikings for Harvin last March, […]
What every pundit out there picking “not Seattle” to win the Super Bowl fails to realize is that this team is full of sharks that have now tasted blood. One feeding does not satiate them. It emboldens them, and steels their belief that every hunt will result in a meal. Try telling Earl Thomas he […]