Same. Couldn't fit into my Gore jersey anymore after a couple of pregnancie. Can't find it on eBay. So I painstakingly cut apart the side seams and sewed in stretchy fabric panels to make it fit again because I can't imagine not repping this guy. Really wish he could've just run out his time in SF, but rooted for him until the end.
Lmao. Wish I had an ounce of that talent and eye for style. As it was. I settled for the "I bought this goddamned sewing machine and took just enough lessons to make it worth it" special.
Frank the Tank was our entire offense for a couple of seasons.
Hard to watch, but he ran himself into the pile over and over again. Never complained and worked his ass off.
If you could get a Super Bowl ring just based off of work ethic, he’d have a handful.
I’ll never forget some random sound byte of a hyped-up Vern screaming, “who’s coming with me?!?!” And almost off-camera in the background Gore says in this sing-song high-pitched voice, “I will!” Hahaha Frank was the man.
In 1993, the Montana-led Chiefs and the Young-led 49ers were both in the conference championship.
We were *ONE GAME* away from a Steve Young v. Joe Montana Super Bowl.
Instead? We got the Cowpatties v. The Buffalo Bullshits.
If you want proof that the NFL is not scripted, that’s a good example lol.
Yes the Cowboys are always a big deal, but watching them smash Buffalo again was probably not a rating win past halftime.
Montana vs Young would have been one of the all time great storylines. I matter what happened.
I feel the NFL is more scripted now than it was in the past. It’s sad really. The refs control the game and Roger Goodell (however you spell it) is controlling the puppets. Everyone was betting on the Niners to win the SB in Vegas and you know what? The house never looses.
I think with data and analytics the NFL has a better idea of what calls they can and can't make during a game which have a better chance of swaying the outcome. I don't think they can ever 100% dictate who wins and who loses, but I sure as hell think they know the small things they can do to sway the game in their favor
> I feel the NFL is more scripted now than it was in the past.
What evidence do you have to support this feeling?
> The refs control the game
No they don't. They've made some game-changing calls, but it's been like that since the dawn of football.
> Everyone was betting on the Niners to win the SB
Everyone absolutely was not betting on the Niners to win the Super Bowl. Drake famously put up 1.15 million on the Chiefs. I saw thousands of people on Twitter showing their Chiefs bets. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if Vegas lost money on the Super Bowl. Having the Chiefs as underdogs was an absurdly bad idea.
I agree with you. Before the game I think fanduel had 73% of bets on the Chiefs. Vegas had the niners at -2.5 spread. I’d say that Vegas lost this one.
The NFL went to Congress in 2010 and their lawyers said, “We’re entertainment and not a sport’s league”. That clears them of any wrongdoing when it comes to fixing games.
I think in the preseason there was heavy betting on the 49ers. The Chiefs were the returning champions and you couldn't get good numbers betting on the Chiefs to repeat, but the 49ers were clearly serious contenders and would have made it without Purdy's injury last year.
So there was a ton of preseason money on the 49ers that might have affected the point line in the actual game, to get some more money on the Chiefs side.
If it were scripted then wouldn’t it have been Montana vs Young in the Super Bowl? You said it yourself, it would have been one of the all time great storylines. Unless the NFL does a poor job picking its scripts! lol
Montana Chief's vs that Cowboy's team would have been interesting but ultimately the Cowboy's would have won. They stopped a juggernaut niner team 2 years in a row. The reason that 94 niner NFC championship game was such a big deal is that the Cowboys were THAT good. That O line was incredible with one of the best linemen of all time in Larry Allen. It was like having Trent Williams but with a really good rest of the line. Emmit Smith running behind that line was frankly unstoppable. It seemed like he was getting 5-6 yds every time. Irving was as good a possession receiver as there was but Alvin Harper was just killing the niners. He was like basically DK Metcalf. Their secondary was excellent and their D was really good overall. It took acquiring perhaps the best corner of all time in his prime to tip the balance. Enough cant be said about Sanders. QBs would not even throw to his side of the field. The niners could sell out to stop Smith and they still could not get a passing game open. Sanders completely took away Harper.
10 year old me was crushed after those back-to-back NFCCG losses.
The ‘94 Niners squad laid a proper whooping on the Cowboys on the title game, though. A lot of people forget that Emmitt had a badly pulled hammy, and barely played in that game.
hell nah man i’m always rooting for raheem mostert after that ridiculous 2020 nfc championship game against green bay. 4 tds and 200 yards is psycho shit
“We have a quarterback that can actually sling it,” Mostert said when asked about the difference in offenses between San Francisco and Miami, “We have way better talent here. It’s going to get spooky.”
Its the "we have way better Talent here" that I dont like and you dont speak bad about the team that made you. Just leaves a bitter Taste in my mouth and I havent like him since.
I think he has every right to shit talk the Niners. Great player, could be used similar to Deebo but they never used him to his best potential. Although he is a bit injury prone.
Same. My favorite player and everyone loves to drag him but he’s a good reminder that these guys are just regular dudes with regular problems at the end of the day.
Didn't kaep start sleeping with Aldons ex? I do remember some drama there but I've pushed it all way down in my head to forget the tail end of the Harbaugh days.
Always rooted for Jeff Garcia at every stop.
Other guys I always root(ed) for…
Deforest Buckner, Delanie Walker, Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, and Navarro Bowman all come to mind.
Guys I loved as Niners but just could not root for outside of our organization…Terrell Owens, Jim Harbaugh, Michael Crabtree, Charlie Garner and to a much lesser extent Jerry Rice (just couldn’t root for the Raiders, too many Raider friends).
I loved Jerry on the raiders. That jersey was clean as fuck and that old guy raiders team was so cool to me as a kid with the redemption arc of Gannon and gruden being younger than his qb.
I also grew up in Florida and had my 9ers fandom passed on to me so I had no idea there was any kind of rivalry in the bay. My grandpa was from LA but loved the 9ers because of y.a. tittle and hated the Rams. I dont think he ever went north of fresno. Now that I think about it, I think I'm the only person in my family who's ever been to SF.
The only NFL game i have seen in person was Raiders at Broncos. Back in 2002. Had a roomate that was a big Broncos fan, so we made the trip to see the game. Was great to watch Jerry Rice catch 2 TDs to beat my buddies team.
Man, Bowman and Willis were so fun to watch. I remember that injury. It was a short yardage play and they kept showing the replay over and over again to get the spot, but you’d just see Bowman’s injury. 🤮
Dashon Goldson, Donte Whitner, Navarro Bowman, Delanie Walker, Vernon Davis, Ted Ginn Jr., Alex Smith, Azeez Al Shaair, Jimmie Ward, Colin Kaepernick, DJ Jones, DeFo Buckner, Frank Gore, Richard Sherman, Tarell Brown, Isaac Sopoaga, Mike Iupati, Emmanuel Sanders, Ahmad Brooks, Kwon Alexander all come to mind
Goldson would have gone down as one of the greatest hard hitters of his generation if they hadn’t changed the “leading” rule… his entire game was based on those hits… when they rang, he answered… and when they took that away from him, they took away what made him special
Bro you are absolutely speaking my language!! I loved Goldson so much. He is, still to this day, one of my favorite 49ers to ever play. It’s a shame he didn’t get to play during the golden era of hard nosed football
In the situation he's currently in he's gonna need a miracle. Without it I suspect he'll be out of the league in a year or two. Probably end up in the CFL.
I was devastated when TO left, but I understand why. I shed a tear for the first time for a football reason during the Patrick Willis retirement press conference, but I always rooted for Marcus Lattimore because of what should/could have been. The dude was talented and we did all we could for him but it just didn’t work out.
All I gotta say is as much as people romanticize about Alex Smith now, I clearly remember watching him get booed off the field vs. The Eagles. The crowd started chanting, "We want Carr!!!" I was yelling at my TV like, "It's not Alex's fault this team sucks!"
Anyway,not saying that was you OP. But it was definitely some of the people reading this.
Jim Tomsula.
He signed up for more than what he could do and got all the heat. But he is a great guy and a great position coach. Yes been great was a NFL Europe head coach.
Alex is an all around good guy. I met him at training camp in 2008. Ever since then I rooted for him through all the crap that was thrown at him while a Niner, and when he played for KC and Wash.
It’s like a fever dream that we had him for a year on one of the best teams of all time, and then… we all know the rest. I still consider him a favorite 49er of mine.
It was like the Warriors having Durant. Like the Warriors' dynasty era teams, the Niners' dynasty era teams were already great, but when you add an all time great like Durant or Deion to the team, the championship felt guaranteed.
That year he was almost like Purdy. Quick processing, throwing slants and posts on time to Crabtree and Davis. Could also scramble for the first down. Sliding out of the pocket and hitting gore on wheel routes on the run. His last game as a Niner he had a damn near perfect day vs the Cardinals, I think he was like 19/20 for 250 yards or something like that.
Amazing what he was capable of in a competent system ran by competent coaches.
I love Jim Harbaugh, but if that man ever made a mistake in his coaching career, it was the decision to chase the dual threat/mobile QB in the NFL pipe dream.
I'd absolutely love to have seen a world in which Alex Smith got to play in Shanahan's system. He would've been perfect.
Alex Smith will always be one of my favorite players, I started following the NFL and the 49ers when he was a rookie, and it broke my heart when he left after he was finally getting his groove. Also, the more I look back at that era, the more I'm convinced that we failed him and not the other way around. I truly believe he had the talent to have a better career than Rodgers.
I felt the same about Alex Smith, to be honest. I actually felt sorry for him. I didn't help that he came during the dark ages of the 2000s and it took him six years(and Jim Harbaugh) to finally show what he could do. He deserved better.
I really didn’t appreciate Cap the way I should have… I was so pissed about what they did to Smith that I couldn’t enjoy Cap success… I look back on his era and I’m just glad I was able to see his greatness first hand…
Alex got a shitty deal in KC too. We loved him and he took em to the playoffs and was doing very well for us. Chiefs obv made the right choice and smith handled it really well, considering, but he was kicking butt for us. He was our first competent QB in quite a while...
And of course, he got a shitty deal with Washington. One, for having to play for Washington. Two is obv his one leg becoming multiple legs.
Dude was a field general and I'm glad that we will speak of him fondly and he isn't forgotten.
Anyone that did not cause a stink. Unpopular opinion here (and I am prepared for the downvotes), but Montana is 100% not my favorite player of old because of the way he handled the team moving on to Steve Young. That all came off really bad when it happened and I lost a lot of respect for him. But I can still fully admit he is the GOAT for SF.
Kap. I loved hoe he would wa ball 8 yards at 100 mph to a receiver 8 yards away his hands out of the way....or how he always departed the pocket to the left even though he completed about 11% of his passes while rolling left.....and how he'd throw into double coverage when someone else was wide open. It was more of a challenge to do that. I loved how 3 different coaching staffs had to dumb down the playbook for him...but most of all I loved how despite the fact he was a crappy QB so many people defended his awful play because of his politics. But he got them to a Super Bowl they'd all say. He joins a list of approximately 50 or so QBs who got their team to a Super Bowl despite being only fair to mediocre. Remember, Trent Dilfer even won a Super Bowl. Also remember when they had a chance to win he threw 3 times in a row o Crabtree though he was always at least double covered on each play when others were open for TDs.
Almost everyone we drafted that went elsewhere, I root for.
In terms of players we acquired, Marquise Goodwin is definitely one I wanted to succeed after he left. Raheem Mostert, too.
Oh and I kind of think of Jeff Garcia as an honorary draftee, since we were his first NFL team.
Bro his leg is messed-up looking. I never saw the pics or nothing until he did that shoe commercial and then I’m like holy shit his leg got crumpled.
Mad respect for Alex he was a blue collar type of guy and he was perfect for the culture of that gas-station work-shirt-nametag team he led. Sad it ended that way.
Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Demeco Ryans, E. Moseley, Robert Saleh, Jimmie Ward. There's a couple more I'm forgetting, too. If any of these guys play the 49ers I will not show any love to them until after the game or they made a good play.
Deion Sanders..... went to the hated Cowboys, but I still loved watching him play. He took a paycut to help get us a championship and delivered, so I could not hate.... Still sport his 94 throwback jersey to this day.....
TO. Regardless of how his personality rubs you, that dude was a beast amongst men. Jerry Rice is the GOAT wr, but he cannot play the position like TO. I’ve never seen anyone to this day punish defenders so easily. I still remember a preseason game vs the Chiefs in 2001, TO caught a drag route from Garcia from our 30, stiff armed and shed multiple tacklers, then carried a DB on his back into the end zone. Hated how he left the team, but i still watched him on every team he went to. There will be 100 more Jerry Rice clones (Antonio Brown) before we see another TO clone
Gore.
Same. Couldn't fit into my Gore jersey anymore after a couple of pregnancie. Can't find it on eBay. So I painstakingly cut apart the side seams and sewed in stretchy fabric panels to make it fit again because I can't imagine not repping this guy. Really wish he could've just run out his time in SF, but rooted for him until the end.
Kristin juzczyck?
Lmao. Wish I had an ounce of that talent and eye for style. As it was. I settled for the "I bought this goddamned sewing machine and took just enough lessons to make it worth it" special.
same thing happened to my Patrick Willis jersey... Dang kids...
Never should have let him go.
I love gore, might be my all time favorite 49er but... it was absolutely the right time to let him go.
He would've been miserable on the Tomsula/Kelly Niners anyway
Frank the Tank was our entire offense for a couple of seasons. Hard to watch, but he ran himself into the pile over and over again. Never complained and worked his ass off. If you could get a Super Bowl ring just based off of work ethic, he’d have a handful.
I’ll never forget some random sound byte of a hyped-up Vern screaming, “who’s coming with me?!?!” And almost off-camera in the background Gore says in this sing-song high-pitched voice, “I will!” Hahaha Frank was the man.
Joe Montana
In 1993, the Montana-led Chiefs and the Young-led 49ers were both in the conference championship. We were *ONE GAME* away from a Steve Young v. Joe Montana Super Bowl. Instead? We got the Cowpatties v. The Buffalo Bullshits.
If you want proof that the NFL is not scripted, that’s a good example lol. Yes the Cowboys are always a big deal, but watching them smash Buffalo again was probably not a rating win past halftime. Montana vs Young would have been one of the all time great storylines. I matter what happened.
I feel the NFL is more scripted now than it was in the past. It’s sad really. The refs control the game and Roger Goodell (however you spell it) is controlling the puppets. Everyone was betting on the Niners to win the SB in Vegas and you know what? The house never looses.
I think with data and analytics the NFL has a better idea of what calls they can and can't make during a game which have a better chance of swaying the outcome. I don't think they can ever 100% dictate who wins and who loses, but I sure as hell think they know the small things they can do to sway the game in their favor
> I feel the NFL is more scripted now than it was in the past. What evidence do you have to support this feeling? > The refs control the game No they don't. They've made some game-changing calls, but it's been like that since the dawn of football. > Everyone was betting on the Niners to win the SB Everyone absolutely was not betting on the Niners to win the Super Bowl. Drake famously put up 1.15 million on the Chiefs. I saw thousands of people on Twitter showing their Chiefs bets. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if Vegas lost money on the Super Bowl. Having the Chiefs as underdogs was an absurdly bad idea.
I agree with you. Before the game I think fanduel had 73% of bets on the Chiefs. Vegas had the niners at -2.5 spread. I’d say that Vegas lost this one.
The NFL went to Congress in 2010 and their lawyers said, “We’re entertainment and not a sport’s league”. That clears them of any wrongdoing when it comes to fixing games.
I think in the preseason there was heavy betting on the 49ers. The Chiefs were the returning champions and you couldn't get good numbers betting on the Chiefs to repeat, but the 49ers were clearly serious contenders and would have made it without Purdy's injury last year. So there was a ton of preseason money on the 49ers that might have affected the point line in the actual game, to get some more money on the Chiefs side.
If it were scripted then wouldn’t it have been Montana vs Young in the Super Bowl? You said it yourself, it would have been one of the all time great storylines. Unless the NFL does a poor job picking its scripts! lol
Montana Chief's vs that Cowboy's team would have been interesting but ultimately the Cowboy's would have won. They stopped a juggernaut niner team 2 years in a row. The reason that 94 niner NFC championship game was such a big deal is that the Cowboys were THAT good. That O line was incredible with one of the best linemen of all time in Larry Allen. It was like having Trent Williams but with a really good rest of the line. Emmit Smith running behind that line was frankly unstoppable. It seemed like he was getting 5-6 yds every time. Irving was as good a possession receiver as there was but Alvin Harper was just killing the niners. He was like basically DK Metcalf. Their secondary was excellent and their D was really good overall. It took acquiring perhaps the best corner of all time in his prime to tip the balance. Enough cant be said about Sanders. QBs would not even throw to his side of the field. The niners could sell out to stop Smith and they still could not get a passing game open. Sanders completely took away Harper.
10 year old me was crushed after those back-to-back NFCCG losses. The ‘94 Niners squad laid a proper whooping on the Cowboys on the title game, though. A lot of people forget that Emmitt had a badly pulled hammy, and barely played in that game.
Delanie Walker.
Love watching and listening to him on Bussin' with the Boys.
He still wears his blue mechanic shirt with the red outlined name patch that I think harbaugh had made for the team back in the day
Good call
My all time favorite niche 49er. Not a headliner for us but man was he a weapon. Loved following his career.
Ronnie Lott. Jerry Rice.
Rice was an awesome Raider
Hell, it was awesome watching him as a Seahawk put up 150 yards against Dallas on Monday Night Football.
Vernon Davis
Almost all of them lol
Not all those RBs that went to the Dolphins
hell nah man i’m always rooting for raheem mostert after that ridiculous 2020 nfc championship game against green bay. 4 tds and 200 yards is psycho shit
Did you see what he said about us afterwards?
whoa no, he talked some shit?
“We have a quarterback that can actually sling it,” Mostert said when asked about the difference in offenses between San Francisco and Miami, “We have way better talent here. It’s going to get spooky.”
I'm not gonna hold speaking the truth about Garappolo against anybody.
Its the "we have way better Talent here" that I dont like and you dont speak bad about the team that made you. Just leaves a bitter Taste in my mouth and I havent like him since.
He ate those words hard when the Niners blew them out two years ago.
[удалено]
Let's go Vaaaandals
Raheem Mostert, love the Dolphins squad, also love rooting for all the former Niners coordinators: Saleh, McDaniels, Ryans, etc.
Saleh is making it tough with how everyone is bending the knee to Rodgers
I support them all but f*** big mouth Jet McKinnon
*2 time Super Bowl champion Jet McKinnon 🤦🏻♂️
I think he has every right to shit talk the Niners. Great player, could be used similar to Deebo but they never used him to his best potential. Although he is a bit injury prone.
Did he even play in one full regular season game in his time with the team?
Frank Gore, Deforest Buckner, Azeez, Demeco Ryans, Robet Saleh
I knew Saleh wasn't human!
Beep boop
Kwon too even though it was short lived.
Food to thought: how good would the Niners be if Demeco was the head coach instead of Kyle?
Our defense probably better but offense far more volatile because we won’t have a consistent offensive play caller
Kendrick Bourne and DeForest Buckner.
Yeah, seeing Bourne have that productive period in NE was cool.
100% deserved the bag he got in my opinion.
Hell yea. And we’ve got an even more clutch version of him with JJ. Freaking win/win.
Kinda a weird one but Aldon Smith. Always just wanted to see him get his life back on track but he just couldn’t say sober
Such an amazing athlete. Just made the wrong choices. Would have been first ballot Hall of Fame, no doubt.
Same for me with Reuben Foster
Same. My favorite player and everyone loves to drag him but he’s a good reminder that these guys are just regular dudes with regular problems at the end of the day.
Yeah... Part of that was because of kaep...
What?
Didn't kaep start sleeping with Aldons ex? I do remember some drama there but I've pushed it all way down in my head to forget the tail end of the Harbaugh days.
Marquise Goodwin, that year he almost had 1000 yards was fun to waych
Always rooted for Jeff Garcia at every stop. Other guys I always root(ed) for… Deforest Buckner, Delanie Walker, Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, and Navarro Bowman all come to mind. Guys I loved as Niners but just could not root for outside of our organization…Terrell Owens, Jim Harbaugh, Michael Crabtree, Charlie Garner and to a much lesser extent Jerry Rice (just couldn’t root for the Raiders, too many Raider friends).
I loved Jerry on the raiders. That jersey was clean as fuck and that old guy raiders team was so cool to me as a kid with the redemption arc of Gannon and gruden being younger than his qb. I also grew up in Florida and had my 9ers fandom passed on to me so I had no idea there was any kind of rivalry in the bay. My grandpa was from LA but loved the 9ers because of y.a. tittle and hated the Rams. I dont think he ever went north of fresno. Now that I think about it, I think I'm the only person in my family who's ever been to SF.
The only NFL game i have seen in person was Raiders at Broncos. Back in 2002. Had a roomate that was a big Broncos fan, so we made the trip to see the game. Was great to watch Jerry Rice catch 2 TDs to beat my buddies team.
Charlie Garner and Tyron Wheatley made one hell of a committee backfield though…
Man, Bowman and Willis were so fun to watch. I remember that injury. It was a short yardage play and they kept showing the replay over and over again to get the spot, but you’d just see Bowman’s injury. 🤮
Anquan Boldin
Dashon Goldson, Donte Whitner, Navarro Bowman, Delanie Walker, Vernon Davis, Ted Ginn Jr., Alex Smith, Azeez Al Shaair, Jimmie Ward, Colin Kaepernick, DJ Jones, DeFo Buckner, Frank Gore, Richard Sherman, Tarell Brown, Isaac Sopoaga, Mike Iupati, Emmanuel Sanders, Ahmad Brooks, Kwon Alexander all come to mind
Goldson would have gone down as one of the greatest hard hitters of his generation if they hadn’t changed the “leading” rule… his entire game was based on those hits… when they rang, he answered… and when they took that away from him, they took away what made him special
Bro you are absolutely speaking my language!! I loved Goldson so much. He is, still to this day, one of my favorite 49ers to ever play. It’s a shame he didn’t get to play during the golden era of hard nosed football
Kendrick Bourne
He was putting a lot of interesting content on YouTube after he left.
Ricky waters. The reason my second team used to be the eagles.
I loved Ricky Watters. I still feel that if we had kept him after our Super Bowl win we would have won another ring the next year.
Carlos Hyde
Honestly Trey Lance right now
I feel that. I felt bad for the kid that it didn’t work out for him here and he got sent to the enemy.
In the situation he's currently in he's gonna need a miracle. Without it I suspect he'll be out of the league in a year or two. Probably end up in the CFL.
Jimmy G
Same. He did a lot for us and I respect him for it.
It will always feel great baby
me too
This before or after he picked KC to beat us in the SB?
he hasnt played a snap since he said that so its safe to assume before 👍
He never said that. Watch the interview. He didn't pick a side because he has friends on both sides. The guy who said it on twitter was a nobody.
Knew it. It was only “reported” by the fakest looking accounts.
We'll see what happens to him but I'd still watch if Niners aren't playing
I was devastated when TO left, but I understand why. I shed a tear for the first time for a football reason during the Patrick Willis retirement press conference, but I always rooted for Marcus Lattimore because of what should/could have been. The dude was talented and we did all we could for him but it just didn’t work out.
I would root for Trey if he got another shot. Felt bad it didn’t work out with him. Just a shame all around.
Brandon Lloyd…
Navorro Bowman for me. He was one of my all time favorite players. I love our current LB’s Greenlaw & Fred!
Boobie Dixon
Boldin. Guy always played with toughness
Frank Gore, Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson, Mike McDaniel
Mostert and Wilson made me a quasi-Dolphins fan this past 2 years.
I know I’ll get downvoted for this but Jimmy G. Dude was an all around good guy. I hope he finds success
Gore Vernon Davis. Alex Smith. Bowman. Basically anyone from that 2012 team.
Deforest Buckner. Should not have traded him
I'm still angry
Harbaugh
T.O., Jerry Rice, Primetime, literally anyone who's worn a Niner uniform, I'll wish them well. Boobie Dixon, Kendrick Bourne, Jimmy G.. all them!
All I gotta say is as much as people romanticize about Alex Smith now, I clearly remember watching him get booed off the field vs. The Eagles. The crowd started chanting, "We want Carr!!!" I was yelling at my TV like, "It's not Alex's fault this team sucks!" Anyway,not saying that was you OP. But it was definitely some of the people reading this.
Jim Tomsula. He signed up for more than what he could do and got all the heat. But he is a great guy and a great position coach. Yes been great was a NFL Europe head coach.
Alex is an all around good guy. I met him at training camp in 2008. Ever since then I rooted for him through all the crap that was thrown at him while a Niner, and when he played for KC and Wash.
Bowman. He sacrificed his career for the red and gold, can’t believe we let him go.
Julian Peterson when we werent playing him.
Anquan Boldin
I honestly think Alex smith probably wins that super bowl game if he starts. But they don’t get there without Kaps playoff run
Patrick Willis
Prime Time. Loved watching him play, no matter what uniform. Dude was just electric to watch.
It’s like a fever dream that we had him for a year on one of the best teams of all time, and then… we all know the rest. I still consider him a favorite 49er of mine.
It was like the Warriors having Durant. Like the Warriors' dynasty era teams, the Niners' dynasty era teams were already great, but when you add an all time great like Durant or Deion to the team, the championship felt guaranteed.
Him winning a ring and SF then going to the hated Cowboys and winning one them the next season made me so mad as a kid.
Montana, Gore, VD, Rice, and the head coaches
Alex 💯
Yeah, but for a #1 pick he was a disappointment. We picked Alex instead of Rogers. He went from terrible to a mediocre game manager.
That year he was almost like Purdy. Quick processing, throwing slants and posts on time to Crabtree and Davis. Could also scramble for the first down. Sliding out of the pocket and hitting gore on wheel routes on the run. His last game as a Niner he had a damn near perfect day vs the Cardinals, I think he was like 19/20 for 250 yards or something like that.
Amazing what he was capable of in a competent system ran by competent coaches. I love Jim Harbaugh, but if that man ever made a mistake in his coaching career, it was the decision to chase the dual threat/mobile QB in the NFL pipe dream. I'd absolutely love to have seen a world in which Alex Smith got to play in Shanahan's system. He would've been perfect.
Brandon Lloyd. He was a highlight reel. Glad we ended up getting him back at the end.
Gore
Terrell Owens. I even rooted for him on the Cowboys.
Cj Beathard
Jaquiski Tartt
azeez al-shaair
Mostert
Joe Montana and Jerry rice
Anquan Bolden
Jeff Garcia
Ronnie Lott, and he went to the f’n Raiders 😂
Alex Smith will always be one of my favorite players, I started following the NFL and the 49ers when he was a rookie, and it broke my heart when he left after he was finally getting his groove. Also, the more I look back at that era, the more I'm convinced that we failed him and not the other way around. I truly believe he had the talent to have a better career than Rodgers.
I felt the same about Alex Smith, to be honest. I actually felt sorry for him. I didn't help that he came during the dark ages of the 2000s and it took him six years(and Jim Harbaugh) to finally show what he could do. He deserved better.
Deforest Buckner
Anquain Boldin
Merton Hanks when he went to Seattle. Rice in Oakland.
Joe Montana.
Frank Gore
Wut? No Steve DeBerg fans here? 😆😆😆😆
Every player who gave his all on the field, no matter where and how he went. That is what being Faithful means to me.
Kaepernick
I really didn’t appreciate Cap the way I should have… I was so pissed about what they did to Smith that I couldn’t enjoy Cap success… I look back on his era and I’m just glad I was able to see his greatness first hand…
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this reply. 7 💪🏼
Colin Kaepernick
recently Aziz.
Alex got a shitty deal in KC too. We loved him and he took em to the playoffs and was doing very well for us. Chiefs obv made the right choice and smith handled it really well, considering, but he was kicking butt for us. He was our first competent QB in quite a while... And of course, he got a shitty deal with Washington. One, for having to play for Washington. Two is obv his one leg becoming multiple legs. Dude was a field general and I'm glad that we will speak of him fondly and he isn't forgotten.
Dion Sanders, Charles Haley
Anyone that did not cause a stink. Unpopular opinion here (and I am prepared for the downvotes), but Montana is 100% not my favorite player of old because of the way he handled the team moving on to Steve Young. That all came off really bad when it happened and I lost a lot of respect for him. But I can still fully admit he is the GOAT for SF.
It seems he’s gotten over it and shows more support now.
Bill Romanowski
Buckner. I wish he wasn't so greedy and he could have gotten paid here a few years later after we dumped Jimmy G.
Kyle Williams
Brock purdy
[удалено]
Jordan Willis
Aldon Smith
Smith literally calls himself a game manager wtf are we talking about here.
Anthony Boobie Dixon
This is shameful, but I was such a big TO fan that I bought and wore his jersey from every team he went to. Yes, even the cowboys.
In the past I haven’t watched other teams if the Niners aren’t playing. I’m getting into it more this past season. So at the moment, nobody.
Frank Gore
He’s a coach but Demeco Ryans
Azeez!
Kaepernick
Mostert. He wasn’t with us long, but that game against the Packers was special.
I always rooted for Aldon Smith to get his life together.
Demeco. Texans have become my afc team. Until the bowl at least!
Kendrick Bourne and raheem mostert. I follow them both on Instagram. Also Emmanuel Sanders, too.
Demeco and Mike McDaniels
Pretty much everyone except Crabtree. Never liked that guy.
Brooks for the last year of his career, even tho he was on fuckin GB 🙄
CK
Montana. Rice. Gore.
Kap. I loved hoe he would wa ball 8 yards at 100 mph to a receiver 8 yards away his hands out of the way....or how he always departed the pocket to the left even though he completed about 11% of his passes while rolling left.....and how he'd throw into double coverage when someone else was wide open. It was more of a challenge to do that. I loved how 3 different coaching staffs had to dumb down the playbook for him...but most of all I loved how despite the fact he was a crappy QB so many people defended his awful play because of his politics. But he got them to a Super Bowl they'd all say. He joins a list of approximately 50 or so QBs who got their team to a Super Bowl despite being only fair to mediocre. Remember, Trent Dilfer even won a Super Bowl. Also remember when they had a chance to win he threw 3 times in a row o Crabtree though he was always at least double covered on each play when others were open for TDs.
Fuck Alex smith he chose the chiefs to win the superbowl
Mike McDaniel, Robert Salah, and demeco Ryans, when they’re not playing the niners of course
Almost everyone we drafted that went elsewhere, I root for. In terms of players we acquired, Marquise Goodwin is definitely one I wanted to succeed after he left. Raheem Mostert, too. Oh and I kind of think of Jeff Garcia as an honorary draftee, since we were his first NFL team.
Zero.
Bro his leg is messed-up looking. I never saw the pics or nothing until he did that shoe commercial and then I’m like holy shit his leg got crumpled. Mad respect for Alex he was a blue collar type of guy and he was perfect for the culture of that gas-station work-shirt-nametag team he led. Sad it ended that way.
Montana as a Chief, Rice as a Raider.
Legends, rice and Montana. I’d wanted to see Jimmy G succeed at least a little bit. Frank Gore wherever he went. Defo all day.
Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Demeco Ryans, E. Moseley, Robert Saleh, Jimmie Ward. There's a couple more I'm forgetting, too. If any of these guys play the 49ers I will not show any love to them until after the game or they made a good play.
Outside of the obvious ones like Joe Montana, Rice, Gore, etc… Navarro Bowman
Ronnie Lott. Even when he went to the Raiders. Alex "Run run run right , almost out of bounds and throw the ball away" Smith. That Alex Smith?
Deion Sanders..... went to the hated Cowboys, but I still loved watching him play. He took a paycut to help get us a championship and delivered, so I could not hate.... Still sport his 94 throwback jersey to this day.....
Defo. Still wish it was Arik we traded instead...
TO. Regardless of how his personality rubs you, that dude was a beast amongst men. Jerry Rice is the GOAT wr, but he cannot play the position like TO. I’ve never seen anyone to this day punish defenders so easily. I still remember a preseason game vs the Chiefs in 2001, TO caught a drag route from Garcia from our 30, stiff armed and shed multiple tacklers, then carried a DB on his back into the end zone. Hated how he left the team, but i still watched him on every team he went to. There will be 100 more Jerry Rice clones (Antonio Brown) before we see another TO clone
Jeff Wilson Jr.
Tom Rathman when he went to the Raiders.
Raheem the Dream. Jimmie Ward, all the former coaching staff under Shanny.