Well, that, along with all the rest of the spectacle, was underwhelming at best, the worst Super Bowl of the Super Bowl era in my thoughts to say the least, was that. On paper, the Rams did little to nothing. 9 punts? 260 yards of offense? They did more by half time in most games. 3 points? Aggravating to me at least was the totally conservative play calling by McVay and company. Every first down saw a run play. I think they had 6 first downs heading into that 4th quarter. Again, that’s usually one DRIVE let alone 3 quarters of play. To combat this, they kept doing the same thing. It wasn’t until the FG drive in the 3rd quarter that they threw on 1st down. No quick passes that would have slowed NE’s suddenly stout pass rush. But the Pats played aggresive on defense, and the Rams were never able to counter.
NE wasn’t much better what with Brady throwing crap around most of the day including a 1st quarter pick, and a ton of late passes and a whopping 71.4 rating. They ran very well late though and ended up with and a grand total of 1254 on the ground.
The Rams defense bent all day, but by the end of the 3rd quarter it was still 3-3. Zzzzzzzzz. Brady had led a few promising drives, but the Rams were able to keep them at bay with the help of a missed FG and a rattled Brady. But if you punt the ball to Brady 9 fucking times, eventually he’ll do something right, and that was pretty much it as the Pats scored a TD late and Goff threw a stupid pick on 2nd down trying to lead the comeback.
Insult to injury was the missed FG at the end to at least avoid being tied with the most inept offense in the Super Bowl era
Forty Niners Forever 
The stick was great for football, baseball not so much.
Froze my ass off many a time at the Stick, Winder, loved every minute. Never saw a baseball game there though and was glad to see the diamond leave for PacBell park I think it was first called. Did see a baseball game there though, a great venue for it.
If Willie Mays had played in just about any other ballpark he would the home run leader today.
I am going to build a WALL between Great America and Levi’s Stadium and make Niner fans pay for it.
Build yourself a clue, skippy.
Winder, that video is great. Love seeing Brodie in his prime. Too bad he played on so many lousy teams through the 60s. Crazy is how far back he dropped in the original version of the shotgun.
Football season at the Stick was usually much nicer weather. At least for the first half of the season.
Baseball was invariably cold, day or night, sunny or cloudy. McCovey might have had 600 himself but for hitting into the wind coming off the mudflats before they enclosed it.
What about that one player like Khalil that’ll magically make us a million times better? Wasn’t that supposed to be Jimmy G? How’d that work out for ya? HYUK
I’ve been talking about the pass rush for 4 years now, wetbrain. Why don;t you fry up some plastic fish?
Tru dat
Lol, that was in response to your last post chuck
Yeah, some of those drop backs were at least 12-15 yards I always did remember him for his bombs.
Thanks for the video Winder. I did not realize how good JD Smith was for us. Watching Lenny Moore for the Colts was awesome, even if he was for the other team. Reminded me of watching Roger Craig!
It just reminds me of what real football looks like.
Any footage of Big Daddy Lipscomb is special. dude was a beast. Early Charlie Krueger is a treat as well.
Yeah, lots of good players involved in that, Green Bay, Baltimore and Chicago greats
You guys have been TREMENDOUSLY busy dwelling in the past while your team flounders in the present in the South Bay. NOT GOOD
It’s not dwelling Donnie just a little bit of history
might as well throw another one out there
I didn’t know Wayne Walker kicked field goals
Yup. Some teams still didn’t have dedicated kickers in their lineups.
I know Walker was a linebacker for most of his career and I guess he did both
Kilmer was down!
Yeah, it looked like quite a few knees were down before the ball crossed the line
A lot of these guys had day jobs and worked the off-season because the pay wasn’t very good. They loved the game.
Yeah, I vaguely remember Leo Nomellini was a wrestler in the offseason.
New thread is up . . .