Literally and figuratively. The rain is finally supposed to return to Northern CA after a long absence, and the football teams involved in the NFC Championship game this weekend (well, one of them) have stopped yapping and appear to be actually focussing on the game. Chances are it rains off and on through the game on Sunday.
I guess we’ll see what happens. Slowing the game down would in all likelihood favor the 49ers, as they have a better run game, and more experience playing on that quagmire they call Bill Walsh field. It’ll be high tide as well at 4:22 pm (+4.1′), so that will add to the squishiness. After the NFC Championship game in 1994, they let the fans on the field, and the corners of the field (especially the southwest corner) were about 6″ of muck. The middle of the field was OK, but the closer you got to the sidelines and endzones, it got thicker and muddier.
I’m sure the drainiage is better now, so it should be somewhat better, but still, the Stick is the Stick, and it looks to be a mess by the end of the game.
Forty Niners Forever 
Just wondering, don’t we need The Catch names for Joe Staley and Issac Sopogaga?
no. that’d be too many *catch* games. KNBR is calling it “The Vernon Post” and I actually love that.
As much as I went bezerko over The Catch 2, it now seems oddly out of place in the history of the Niners since they lost the next game.
Shit, what are people calling Tai Streets catch from Garcia in the game against the Giants (where chaos ensued with the missed kick/interference/illegal man down field game)? It gets no name and no mention AT ALL from Niner historians……..
Plus, calling something _____2 is just boring and unimaginative….
I’m diggin’ The Vernon Post…….
As promised, checked the predictions from 12/21- Flavor and myself picked them to win the SB. No one else on that blog.
You guys are so smart!
I’d say there’s no doubt about your pick for them to go all the way at this point. First of all, they’re clearly the best remaining team out of the four teams, and after that win against the Saints, they look to be pretty much unstoppable. Of course, I picked the Raiders to go all the way as I do every year at the beginning of the season, but after the clusterfuck in Buffalo I had to rethink that prediction….
I made the pick 12/21. I can restore the page but that would cost you 100 dollars.
Well, I thought they’d meet the Steelers.And of course, they’re not there yet. But we won’t be seeing a Pizza Boy/T-Blow SB..
Tony’s paired with “your boy” Tiger at Pebble in a few weeks. It’s going to be goddamn downright embarrassing when Romo shoots 68 while Tiger spends his day on the beach looking for his balls amongst the seashells.
Him and the asshole Cowfuckers were made for each other. What a douchebag!
WTF is the deal with that “stop censorship” banner in the upper right-hand corner? It’s pissing me off. Censorship pissed off another man whose movie I just watched again this morning: “The People vs Larry Flynt.” Replace that banner with one of Larry’s girls. I’d even settle for a Courtney Love pic. Say what you will about that troubled girl, but she’s got a great rack.
You’ve got great taste in women.
Peter King of SI says Jim Harbaugh wins coach of the year hands down. Opinions?? I agree completely!
Unfortunately for the Ravens, they are going to get their asses handed to them, Pats 38-Ravens 17
Any twit can see Harbaugh is coach of the year.
And Peter King certainly qualifies…
Yeah, why are they even having a vote? Go 6-10 and then 14-3 on the brink of the SB? No one else should even get a vote…
Ps– just saw Roger Craig at lunch (with a hottie and they were sitting under his framed jersey which I though was a little lame). Anyway, I’ve taken this RC sighting as a hugely positive sign for tomorrow
John is not the offensive mind that his brother is. I think Flacco’s problems are as much with the coaching staff as they are with Joe. He is definitely capable of beating NE’s shit defense. He’s no
T-Blow.His last outing against the Pats he was 27-35 2 TD 285 YD 119.3 QBR. They lost in OT at NE but he clearly outplayed Brady.
24-20 Ravens
That game was played LAST October. Totally irrelevant.
Next you’ll be bringing up stats from the Eisenhower administration.
Like your Smith stats for 2005?
Pats defense is even worse this year, some of the worst since, well- the Eisenhower administration..
So are you guys praying for an off track tomorrow at the ‘Stick? I know the vast majority of horse players don’t like ’em at the track. Uneven surface, unknown variables, biases, races coming off the turf to the dirt and tons of scratches to deal with throughout the day.
I think the game will start off “fast and firm,” but I could see Bill Walsh Field being labeled as “muddy” come the second half. Looks like Ginn will be a no-go for tomorrow, so I’ll take “my boy” Kyle Williams as the “pick to click.” 6/66/1 and a couple of nice ST returns will work for me.
I picked ’em to beat beat New Orleans and head to the Super Bowl on 12/20 lol! Just sayin….
After watching them play ferocious at that Steeler game…one play at a time…wow.
If they play like that with NY in the house, there is no way NY has a chance.
Cool, then you would be the winner!
At this point, there is very little *analysis* of each team’s season that will lead to anything conclusive about who will win tomorrow. It’s all coming down to who will make more plays at the right time than. Both of these teams have proven to be a legit *team*, otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten this far. They both deserve to be here and a win by either wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
I still say Niners win this one fairly easily, 30-16……
The reason I’m optimistic is the Niners have won the field position battle with their superior kicking game. Opponents will drive 60 yards and get 0 points, while the Niners drive 30 and get 3. Things like this never seem to show up in statistics other than the final score. Playing on a short field often leads to quick scoring drives, and not long drawn out possessions. So, like last week, the niners lost the yardage battle, the TOP battle, but won the game. There are probably at least 8 other games that followed that pattern.
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