San Francisco 49ers News and Rumors
'We will be back,' 49ers say'We will be back,' 49ers say After the 49ers just missed pulling off the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history in a 34-31 loss to the Ravens, players spoke in barely audible voices and others sat at their lockers, staring straight ahead. The exceptions… |
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Bedel Saget, nytimes.com Despite a furious comeback, San Francisco's dreams were dashed after four plays in the waning minutes of Sunday's Super Bowl. |
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Randy Moss indicated during Super Bowl week that he would like to continue playing in 2013. The San Francisco 49ers will have to decide whether they want Moss and several other older players to play for them in the future. The 49ers have 10 players age … |
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Kaepernick from crystal ball to reality With Mario Manningham healthy, Vernon Davis now located, Greg Roman fresh from an offseason of expanding the pistol, and no Randy Moss (the play Sunday on which Moss simply checked out and facilitated an intercept… |
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A quick layover in Denver allowed me to rejoin the Super Bowl aftermath conversation via Twitter. Officiating remained prominent on San Francisco 49ers fans' minds. That's fine by me. Even if you think the Baltimore Ravens played better and deserved to … |
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Harbaughs watch together? Never happen New Orleans -- - John Harbaugh said on Monday morning that he and his brother, Jim, would never sit down together and watch a tape of Super Bowl XLVII. The 49ers had four chances to get into the end zone, take the … |
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Joe Flacco called himself an elite QB, then proved it with a championship performance. Like Eli Manning before him, he's shattered Super Bowl predictors, says Kerry J. Byrne. |
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Kerry Byrne, CNNSI.com Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco helped prove that there's a very simple formula for building a champion in today's NFL. |
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David Roher, deadspin.com Twitter reports that the Super Bowl generated 24 million tweets last night. Most of them were terrible, so I just looked at the ones that said "fuck." More » |
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Brian Burke, deadspin.com Super Bowl XLVII turned out to be a close game that hinged on a few critical plays at the end-shocking, given the score when the power went out. But it also hinged on decisions that didn't seem very significant at the time but ended up having an enormou |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The Baltimore Ravens' victory over the San Francisco 49ers has set a record for highest overnight ratings in Super Bowl history. |
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Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com So, wait. Let's make sure we have this straight: More » |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com When the Ravens intentionally took a safety, to give themselves better field position and run a few seconds off the clock, it brought the 49ers to within three points. It was the smart call, but it also raised the possibility of the rarest of all footba… |
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Evan Brunell, deadspin.com One of the highlights of last night's Super Bowl broadcast was watching John Harbaugh berate a poor old man during the 34-minute power outage. We don't know who the old guy was, but we assume he was some kind of stadium official. Like the rest of Americ… |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- Having snapped the NFC's three-year Super Bowl winning streak, but continued the NFL's recent trend of seeing a lower-seeded hot team ride postseason momentum all the way to the parade-planning stage, the Baltimore Ravens stand astride th… |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com With less than three minutes remaining in the Super Bowl and the 49ers on the move, there wasn't a person watching the game who didn't believe we were about to see San Francisco score. Down just five points after being down 22 at the half, the 49ers had… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- The San Francisco 49ers had their chances in Super Bowl XLVII. They had four consecutive shots from the Baltimore 7-yard line or closer in the final minutes. They couldn't quite finish what would have been the greatest comeback in Super B… |
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NFL had backup powerFeb 4
NEW ORLEANS (AP) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the Superdome had a backup power system that was about to be used during the Super Bowl electrical outage but it wasn't needed because power started coming back at that time. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Following the 49ers' loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, San Francisco running back Frank Gore claimed that the newly crowned champions "got away with one." |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com The lights went out, and they stayed out for 34 minutes. Colin Kaepernick had just been sacked, and the 49ers were down 22, and if momentum is a real thing, the blackout swung it firmly to San Francisco. Had the Niners come back to win, the power outage… |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com During Super Bowl week, "Shutdown Corner" posted a few updates regarding players who had earned base salary escalators in their current contracts. The largest increase belong to Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson, whose 2013 salary wil… |
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It Took A Blackout To Show You How Truly Useless NFL Broadcasters Are. Let's Blow Up The Studio.Feb 4
Drew Magary, deadspin.com I avoided the pregame shows yesterday. This isn't unusual. I never watch pregame shows for the same reason YOU never watch pregame shows. I showed up at my friend's house just as they were getting ready for Alicia Keys to spend eight minutes doing a nat… |
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Lynn Zinser, nytimes.com It started out as a Ravens romp. Then the lights went out. And then the 49ers staged a comeback that fell short. No doubt about it, it was a strange night at the Superdome. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com After the end of the 49ers’ 34-31 loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, their coach Jim Harbaugh started his press conference by saying he believed that the team should have gotten a fresh set of downs at the end of the fourth quarter because wide rec… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh criticized the officials for what he believed was a pivotal non-call in the final minutes of his team's Super Bowl loss to the Baltimore Ravens. |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Colin Kaepernick scored his fifth red zone rushing touchdown of the season during Super Bowl XLVII. His inability to complete passes in that area was a problem, however. Super Bowl XLVII Red Zone QB Play Kaepernick completed 1 of 5 passes… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- The officiating website footballzebras.com made headlines before Super Bowl XLVII by questioning Jerome Boger's appointment to the game as referee. Despite complaints from San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, Boger and his crew members… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Ravens cornerback Cary Williams called shoving a ref “a reaction,” and said he didn’t know who he was moving out of the pile during the second quarter fight that would have drawn more attention if it wasn’t followed by a brownout. But he also call… |
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Toni Monkovic, nytimes.com The former N.F.L. supervisor of officials did not agree with Coach Jim Harbaugh that pass interference should have been called on the 49ers' final offensive play. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver became a lot better known during Super Bowl week thanks to his negative take on the idea of having a homosexual teammate and he garnered more attention for the wrong reasons on the field Sunday. Culliver was targeted ofte… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Given the aftermath of the Giants’ World Series win, there was concern that - win or lose - folks in San Francisco would take to the street and create mischief and mayhem. Fortunately, there were no public displays of unrest after the 49ers lost a g |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco walked away with Most Valuable Player honors, but wide receiver/return specialist Jacoby Jones had a hand in seven of the 18 Super Bowl records that were set or tied in the Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco… |
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Around the NFC West: Feb. 4, 2013 NEW ORLEANS -- The San Francisco 49ers' 34-31 defeat to Baltimore in the Superdome on Sunday marked the franchise's first loss in a Super Bowl. It was business as usual for the NFC West recently, however. Every current … |
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The Niners talk about their tough 34-31 loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com One football season is over and we’re already starting to look forward to the next one. In Las Vegas, that means installing favorites to take home the Lombardi Trophy at the Meadowlands a year from now. They believe that 49ers running back Frank Gore wi… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick had an outstanding game in defeat at Super Bowl XLVII, with 302 passing yards and 62 rushing yards. But after the game, Kaepernick put the loss on his own shoulders. “I feel like I made too many mistakes for us… |
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George Bretherton, nytimes.com San Francisco fell behind in each of its last five games, including the playoffs, a sign of a defense that was far from dominant. |
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Almost out of a dark hole 49ers fail to pull out a victory after falling way behind, but after the lights dimmed for a while, they at least got back into the game |
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John Clayton, ESPN.com Can the Ravens and 49ers get back? Don't count on it. Here are five teams that should be Super Bowl threats in 2013, writes John Clayton. |
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There's no way to quantify belief, but you know it when you see it, and Baltimore had it Sunday. Behind their unflappable coach and QB, the Ravens were truly destiny's children. |
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Joe Flacco: From booed to best [...] why wouldn't he be a little glassy-eyed, after being booed by home fans in a rather mediocre regular season, only to be perfect in the playoffs? Eleven touchdown passes and zero interceptions and Most Valuable Player… |
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Sibling rivalry fulfilled its promise [...] the only thing standing between you and the full realization of your dreams is your best friend ... who happens to be your brother, too. [...] it was John Harbaugh besting Jim Harbaugh. After the news conferen… |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- You don't have to buy everything that Ray Lewis is selling -- and plenty of people don't, me included -- to enjoy the storybook ending that was his "last ride.'' |
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Good year for Baltimore just got better Baltimore Sun Copyright 2013 Baltimore Sun. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:52 pm, Sunday, February 3, 2013 Did you really think Flacco … |
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49ers fail, declining to run inside 6 [...] Gore watched as the 49ers handed the ball to LaMichael James for 2 yards and then threw three straight incomplete passes to Michael Crabtree. Gore would finish the game with 110 yards, and Colin Kaepernick add… |
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49ers' single-game Super Bowl bests Franchise bests for passing, rushing and receiving yards in a Super Bowl: PASSING Name, SBComp-AttYardsTD-INTJoe Montana, XXIII23-363572-0Joe Montana, XIX24-353313-0Steve Young, XXIX24-363256-0Colin Kaepernick, XLVII1… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Before he could bask in a shower of confetti, before he could put his fingerprints on the Lombardi Trophy and before he could head into retirement as a champion, Ray Lewis had one final task: stop the San Francisco 49ers on three plays 5 yards from the … |
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The lights finally get turned out for good on the San Francisco 49ers in the right corner of the end zone, on fourth-and-5 with under two minutes to play and the 49ers down five points. |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com Sure, we all know who won Super Bowl XLVII. But what you may not know are the answers to some of the questions that cropped up as we watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers. Fear not, friends, because unlike the Superdome lights, we'… |
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49ers' Crabtree, Davis had big games Remember when the 49ers were so careful and cautious on offense, dinking and dunking their way downfield this season? Davis caught only six passes over the final six games, and then had just one catch in the division… |
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After a furious rally, the 49ers are left to wonder what-if after a last drive came up just short. The players say the failure to score will sting for a long while, reports Jim Trotter. |
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Jim Trotter, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- The NFL spent much of the week stressing its concern for players' physical safety. In the wake of Super Bowl XLVII, however, the league showed little regard for the 49ers' psychological state. |
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Ray Lewis is a polarizing player. But there is no denying the Ravens followed him all the way to the winner's podium, says Don Banks, wrapping up his career like few ever have. |
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Defeat doesn't dim 49ers' bright future The 49ers' glorious dream of adding one last frosty can to the plastic ring, giving the 49ers' a golden six-pack of Super Bowl victories in six tries, died with Baltimore's goal-line stand. [...] in this town, you… |
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Jim Harbaugh vows to handle Super Bowl loss ‘with class and grace,’ then rips refs after the gameFeb 4
Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS -- San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh was understandably unhappy after losing Super Bowl XLVII by the agonizing score of 34-31. Losing to his older brother, as he did to brother John, had to put a little more salt in the wound. Also… |
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Peter King, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- Quick thoughts on a great, fun, twilight-lit, dramatic Super Bowl: |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation's biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the 49er… |
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Super Bowl: CBS struggles to shed light An otherwise satisfactory Super Bowl broadcast - even Beyoncé's halftime performance was 65 percent less weird than Madonna's in 2012 - was thrown into chaos when a broadcast booth-silencing half-blackout at the … |
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49ers' thrilling year to the bitter end The great defender at the end of his career, Ray Lewis of the Ravens, will be retiring with another Super Bowl trophy. The margin between the Ravens and 49ers was just three points, and - as many fans of the latte… |
