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Eric Weddle, meanwhile, looks eerily like Brian Wilson (pitcher, not musician) when he takes his helmet off.

And Joe Montana is unassailable as The Greatest QB Of All Time And Only A Moron Would Dare To Begin Argue Otherwise and it will remain that way even if they play football for a thousand more years

The narrative on Peyton has become ridiculous, IMO, and that's not just my Indy fanhood talking. First, it was all "He's gotta win one or he's a loser!" So he does and now it's all "He's gotta win more or he's nothing!" more or less. What a joke. At what point do you stop questioning someone who has clearly proven to be great at what they do? Does he need to undergo another four neck surgeries to satisfiy some sick threshold? It boggles the mind. It's symptomatic of the decline of journalism (and sports journalism being poor to begin with) serving the marketing interests and acting as storytellers instead of reporters (and selling units of the magazine/newspaper/driving website clicks with easily written fan debate bait like all time "Top Ten" lists that ask questions that can never be truly answered). Also our recurring failure as Americans to recognize and respect Team Effort instead preferring Individualization in our hero worship (i.e. "Peyton Manning winning" vs The Colts and/or Broncos winning).

I'm already sick of the "Tom Brady, who grew up watching Joe Montana, vs Joe Montana's old team for a chance to tie Joe Montana's Legacy of 4 Super Bowl Wins" two week build and it doesn't even exist yet.

Football makes for stranger bedfellows than politics.

Burn The Heretic It was all Jerry Rice. The 81 team had TWO "white guy with negative speed" WRs. TWO. WHITE WRs. NEGATIVE SPEED.

Burn The Heretic

It possibly hints that Aikman's Papa John's paycheck is larger than his NFL on FOX paycheck. Though both organizations seems like they'd be likely to lowball him.

And that play is the only way besides uniform color in which this 49er team resembles the Walsh/Montana outfit of my childhood that honor-binds me to root for them even as I admit that the head coach is probably the biggest dickhead in the league. I root for him just because he went to Michigan, but god he's psychotic. And really, he almost certainly would not have had the success he's had without that competitive nature and drive. Which expresses itself in this overtly assholish manner.

Losing timeouts like that, much like the Scott Steiner bicep kiss, is the cost of doing business with Kaepernick. And I still think it's an indicator/symptomatic of why they are so discombobulated and made impotent by Seattle's crowd noise and have gotten their ass kicked so severely both times they've played their with Kaep as QB.

And that play is the only way besides uniform color in which this 49er team resembles the Walsh/Montana outfit of my childhood that honor-binds me to root for them even as I admit that the head coach is probably the biggest dickhead in the league.

It's like these teams never stopped being divisional rivals, with how much they're trolling each other.

I think both statements could be concurrently true.

Seattle's gotta be uncorking a loud Ted Dibiase style laugh right now watching this game though.

Your argument that the scabs were no worse than the regulars looks sager and sager every week. Harbaugh had to take that Unsportsmanlike Conduct to browbeat this crew into actually reviewing that play like they should've immediately done. And yeah, the officials are clearly going to reward (or not punish) asshole behavior and both teams are responding accordingly.

He's old enough to have actually SEEN Super Bowl VII so he thinks every attempt by a kicker/punter to throw the ball will end as disasterously as that play, perhaps. I suppose technically the punter attempting to turn that play into an incomplete pass does increase, ever so slightly, the odds of the worst case scenario (for the Pats) of a Colts TD on the blocked punt. Alternate theory: "It's my last game; Fuck It"

So Football Fans are bigger marks and rubes than Wrestling Fans. Interesting. [Well, hey, it's not like Roger Goodell hasn't already noticed, and adjusted marketing strategy accordingly]

Lee Smith's own fault for coming out of retirement to blow that save in the 2012 World Series. Oh. Wait.

I think John Ayers did moonlight as a wrestler on more occasions than that. Russ Francis -- who also played for the 80s 49ers -- definitely moonlighted as a wrestler and in fact worked Wrestlemania II as part of that NFL/WWF crossover battle royal.

It's part of the Cost Of Doing Business with Kaepernick as the QB. Timeouts get burned like that every game, usually several, it's been happening since he became the starter and at this point it just seems like it's the way it's going to be. As is walking the razor's edge as far as changing plays at the line and almost getting called for Delay Of Game on a regular basis throughout a given game. Though it does, of course, perhaps offer an explanation/illustration of why the 49ers are particularly Non-Competitive when they go to Seattle (which while clearly a difficult place to play for everybody, is also clearly not impossible for other teams in the league. Arizona actually even WON up there).

Adding playoff teams isn't about "fixing" this year. It's about adding more games -- meaning adding more commercial breaks, meaning adding more ad revenue, meaning adding more money that can be demanded when renegotiating the broadcasting contracts with FOX/CBS/etc. -- by any means necessary. They're bonering so hard for the 18 game schedule that this should not be a surprise

I believe the thread consensus was the NFC West Defense would bury everyone in the desert (the actual desert being Arizona's contribution, natch) But the North offense would be fun as hell to watch

Well, if the Saints manage to do what they completely failed to do in the regular season and defeat the Seahawks in Seattle, the 49ers would actually have a chance to host the NFC Championship Game if they in turn beat Carolina. Of course, while we're talking dream scenarios, I'd like to win the lottery too.

It's almost as if kickers are a part of the team and having a good placekicker matters. And somewhere in a dimension beyond time and death, in the sunken cosmic city of R'yleh, Al Davis cackles triumphantly at this revelation

@ Carolina is going to be unpleasant Well, that's Playoffs though.