The incredible season of the San Fransicso 49ers just got more incredible. Green Bay is about to fall to the New York football Giants, and they will be travelling to San Francisco to take on the resurgent 49ers for the right to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XLVI. After posting a 1-3 record in the wildcard round, I hit them all this weekend.
Funny thng is, I had scheduled a Christmas party for the family, late in November (we all couldn’t get together until yesterday) not knowing anything about the playoff schedule. So it just coincidentally worked out to be the Niners shining moment in the sun. So I had a housefull of screaming yelling, and in the end, happy as hell fans. I can go on and on about the game, the redemption for Alex Smith, the unvarnished support Smith has gotten from VD throughout his career, and the support from the other players on the team who have stuck with Smith through the good, the bad, and the injuries. That Smith wanted to stick around, through all the trashing by coaches, the lukewarm support from the front office, and the outright hatred of a lot of the fan base tells you something about the kind of man that is Alex.
So, here we go. On to the NFC Championship game. The Giants are coming back here hot as hell, but Green Bay looked a little shell shocked due to the tragedy that befell Packers assistant coach Joe Philbin. As it is, the Niners need to beat a team they beat in week 10, 27-20 on the late batted pass by Justin Smith. I would love to take my son, but tix are already upwards of $350 for crap seats. We’ll see. If I can get it under $500 for 2, I just might do it. I have a couple tenuous leads that I’ll follow up on. Anyhow, either way, WOO HOOOO!!!!! One win from the Super Bowl!!!
Forty Niners Forever 
TF that was as good a down field block as you are gonna get, Staley totally sealed the sideline from the safety coming up and took him out. Another thing you might want to notice is that when Williams goes in motion towards Alex so he is ready to make the crackback block on the end…the cornerback covering him also slides inside! So Williams actually takes two of the most dangerous defenders on that play, out of the play! I don’t know if that was by design but if the cornerback stays there and does not follow Williams, he makes the tackle on Smith. Or maybe Staley gets HIM, but when he goes inside Staley is free to go downfield and look for fresh meat.
Everybody executed perfectly
Saw that on replay and still couldn’t believe it. Staley was a rocket. Great block and play
Dennis ya got that wrong buddy. I didn’t make up the Scoring Prognostication Contest. Nope the inspiration for that came from 2 of the chief football proctologists on this blog: chuck and twin off a testy discussion they had early in the season about just WHO made the closest scoring call after a game (forget which). Chuck claimed he did and twin, ever ready to set the record straight, said it looked like chuck changed his score to a better one. I won’t reveal what my diligent research found but I vowed to start recording (just for fun) all the predictions and put ’em in one place. We had a couple weasels last week with Kevin changing his call (lower scoring- wrong!) at the last minute and Chuck doing the same on Grant’s blog last minute and sneaky. Flavor lowered his scores but still made a bundle with his bets. Grant had the worst call but hey he’s young. No harm in changing yer call before kickoff right?
And that Dennis is how and why the Scoring Prognostication Contest came to be. But yeah the fix IS in…notice who won again last week? It sure wasn’t LOL Cohn…
Niners vs Giants Scoring Calls:
31-24 NIners Phil
30-17 Niners twinfan
Place yer bets gentlemen
Kudos to Del Mar who has the stones to admit it right here when he blows the call for humbly admitting he has been ‘in error’ about one Alex Smith to this point. Good job Dennis! Thanks for facing the reality of what we are seeing now. More ‘n we can say about some deniers.
I really do appreciate this. Why is so hard for some to say “I was wrong”?
What, we’re all supposed to be ‘Saints’? God forbid and good job Denny.
repost from Skeeb’s blog
Still I’m pretty sure Denny’s not quite ready to anoint Alex to godhead status quite yet…maybe in 3 weeks?
Grant’s blog, Phil? Who’s Grant?
Harbaugh’s press conference yesterday was pretty funny. Harbaugh said Staley came up to him and said, “Wait til you see the film on my block!”
Smith takes the Niners to the NFC Championship and Dennis isn’t ready to call him good? Criminy, what a mook.
LOL, yer a crack up. There is a rumor “Grant” is Chuck’s son but others say “Who the hell is Chuck?” Me, I dunno man : )
Great block by Staley on the safety. Man that guy can fly
Denny manned up and said Alex is good, real good but not Montana or even Young good yet. A couple more good games and he’ll be calling him Saint Alex
They are replaying the Niners game on the NFL Network tonight at 5:00. My fricking DVR stopped taping with about 3 minutes left. Aaaak!
The Giants are sure talking up the fluke angle of the week 10 game. How they won’t lose this time around. Coughlin of course is telling his players to shut the fuck up.
No word from Justin Tuck on how he thought Alex performed last weekend.
Well, DTD doesn’t get credit for acknowledging what he had no choice but to acknowledge. Smith is the only QB in NFL playoff history to lead two lead changing drives in the final three minutes…
But T-Blow does deserve some credit. As I noted, after yet another disastrous performance, he thanked God for helping him suck…
BTW, I’m still waiting for a video of a miltant Muslim football player proseltyzing for his relgion after the game..
Where’s Ahmad Rashad when you need him?
He better bring a prayer mat.
The issue is civil rights not athletes. We’ve heard minority/special interest groups flap their jaws about their rights in the US forever. Muhammad Ali prolly the first Muslim athlete to exercise his First Amendment right to free speech. Fine. So twin do Christians have the right to free speech incl. public prayer? Or maybe they should just “stfu”? I see yer feelin’ betta…ok then, good.
Going for a trifecta here: 9ers are going to be God’s avenging angels sent on a mission to wreck an unholy vengeance on behalf of Tebow and everyone who are sick of the Brady Bunch and the Cheeta. Their moments of glory are soon to be OVAH! And Long May We Reign!
BTW Spit foolishly refuses to say those magic words on Skeeb’s blog “I was wrong about Alex”. Chuck is going over there and ripping him a new one five times a day. Pride coupled with ignorance is not a great combo! (Just spit it out man, lol!)
What’s funny about Tebow is the hooraw around Elway saying “Tebow’s my guy going into training camp.”
Wow. Ringing endorsement there. Big whoop. That could change 10 minutes after camp starts . . .
Right!
Yeah, Harbaugh just said Smith’s his guy if he can withstand challanges from Cody Pickett and Caleb Hanie ( whoda thunk it- a guy so bad he forced Matrz into retirement)..
Elway is gonna have to take off his new sports coat and help my boy TT learn sumptin’ about heaving the rock like he’s promised to do. Jesus, shades of Jim Harbaugh.
Giants have been hot lately but 49ers have been hot all year.And even “lately”, both teams have won 4 in a row.
Giants players start chirping away. Niners will just save it for game time.
This is from Antrel Rolle of the Giants.
The only way the Giants (11-7) don’t beat the Niners (14-3) and advance to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis is if they beat themselves, a cocky Rolle said Monday, a day after New York ended the Packers’ hopes for the second straight NFL title with a 37-20 win in Green Bay.
“We are not going to be denied,” said Rolle
Oh this was in the Sacramento Bee.
Or Manning could repeat his T-Blow like performance from XMas eve- 9 for 27 against the Jets.Or the week before against Washington.. fact is, as hot as Eli can be, he can stink it up as “good” as anybody.But setting that aside- if each team plays it’s best the 14-3 home team will beat the 11-7 visitors..
If I was a betting man I’d take that chance.
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