Life goes on for the city by the bay…
San Francisco 49ers fans are turning the page on Sunday’s disappointing, blowout loss to the Chiefs. Gone are the expectant-turned- embittered headlines of recent days and weeks.
For the most part no more making fun of how badly the 49ers defense sucked. Or how pitiful quarterback Jimmy Garoffallo fourth quarter play was.
Noop, they pretty well got all that out of their system.
Now it’s back to headlines about California rent control being back on the ballot; former utility giant PG&E’s bankruptcy deal for bondholders; North Beaches’ shuttered stores crisis; Bloomberg having California “to himself as Dem field focuses on Iowa;” Shake Shack’s first foray into SF; will banning cars solve Market Street’s problems; and reader reaction to a plus size bridal wear story.
And what would any self-respecting left coast news org be with its fair share of woke?
Complete with editorials like, “Why would anybody bring a baby into the world that is SF?” and “SF’s big box retailers have no clue how to celebrate Black History Month.”
Ah, but they still have that clever sports rascal Scott Ostler who looks to have put the finishing touches on Sunday’s massacre for a handful of spontaneous quips:
*** Patrick Mahomes is legendary. Maybe you heard the story of how he and his girlfriend dined at a K.C. restaurant recently, and as he was leaving, Patrick stopped at the door and thanked everyone for letting him eat quietly. He said he loves Kansas City, and he and his girlfriend left without mentioning that they were picking up the tab for everyone in the restaurant.
***The halftime show seems to be trying too hard. I remember the good old simple days when it was just Michael Jackson moonwalking and groping for his car keys.
***Sunday was the first clothing-optional halftime. The entertainers didn’t have a dressing room, they had a paint & peel room.
***Shanahan often says his offense is not really revolutionary because “there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.”
Maybe not, but how about reinventing the fourth-quarter spare tire?
***States are hard to learn. President Trump saluted the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and all their fans in the great state of Kansas.
He should have given a shout-out to the 49ers’ fans, because imagine how devastated the folks were in the great state of Idaho.
***Chiefs fans are great, but their tomahawk-chop thing is simply creepy.
And the way they end the national anthem is cute — “and the land of THE CHIEFS!” — but if 49ers’ fans did something like that, they’d be called lefty West Coast elite America-haters.
***The whole White House visit for champions thing is still up in the air.
Good luck making everyone happy on that, Chiefs.
CAPTION THAT PIC #1
– Pelosi/Swalwell constituent its natural habitat (both hand outs/a handout) catching his second whiff – er, wind…
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– (by now you know) “I’m bad, I’m bad, really really bad”…
CAPTION THAT PIC #3 [photo unavailable, standing room only – “Patrick stopped at the door and thanked everyone for letting him eat quietly.”
– ‘just wanna let you know that I’m leaving now – you don’t have to get up or anything’ (understated fanfare flies in the face showy machination ipso facto his end zone antics Superbowl 54*; emotion having always been existent, sportsmanship/professionalism has alas become a lost art, gone the way of ‘me Me ME – look at ME everybody!).
Never saw Starr nor Dawson ‘flex’/play to the crowd, post score or otherwise – ditto an Barry Sanders and Priest Holmes same decades later, if not so long ago. Starr remains the best ever not only for his prowess QB but also demeanor. Lenny too, his “there is a time and place to fool but the playing field is neither the time nor the place” – words to live by/play by sorely missed, this diminished age faux-football and humility, 2020.
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^^OK Boomer.