I've been San Francisco Forty-Niners fan for my entire life, and that's Forty-Niners not Niners, Forty-Niners has much better ring to it. One of my earliest memories of Forty-Niners' football came when I was around five. I don't recall what game it was, but I do remember watching the game with my Dad. The game wasn't going well for the Forty-Niners and then Joe Montana connected for a touchdown. It was at that moment my Dad let out a holler that could wake the dead, and even worse scare the hell out of five year old me. He scared me so badly that I could remember being too frightened to watch the game any longer.
During my childhood and into my teens and twenties, I never knew anything other than that the Forty-Niners were a championship football team that did nothing but win, then came 2003 and years to follow. The next nine years were about the worse thing ever for this hardcore Forty-Niners fan and really every Forty-Niners fan. The losing seasons started to accumulate. The frustration with losing started to build. The ineptitude of the franchise started to become the butt of every NFL joke. The Forty-Niners for all intents and purposes were a mockery of their former self and the roadkill of the NFL. It seemed as though the fate of Forty-Niners was to be bottom dwellers and nothing more...then came Jim Harbaugh.
Wow, is all I can say. How one man can completely change the fortune of one desperate franchise is beyond me and really beyond all of us. Harbaugh has brought this proud franchise back from the brink of complete and utter irrelevance, and now the Forty-Niners are one game away from the Super Bowl with a chance to win their sixth Lombardi trophy. Unbelievable!
Through thick and thin I have been a San Francisco Forty-Niners fan. It has not been easy the last few years, however, my faith in the Forty-Niners has never wavered, and now that faith is being rewarded with being one victory away from Super Bowl Sunday. Through and through I am a Forty-Niners fan...I am a Forty-Niners Faithful.
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