Tag Archives: San Francisco 49ers
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The Warning gives the San Francisco 49ers an NFL draft day assist
The Warning joins 49ers luminaries to announce the team’s fourth round selection in Monterrey, Mexico on April 26, 2025. The San Francisco 49ers got help from an unlikely place during Saturday’s fourth round of the NFL Draft. For the team’s 113th selection of Defensive Tackle CJ West, from Indiana,…
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REWIND: Music that reflects the Bay Area’s football depression
Daniel J. Willis is blue, just like Thom Yorke at this Radiohead show at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2016. I am depressed for reasons I’d rather not speak of ever again. That is not a subtle plea to talk about it; leave me alone. Anyway,…
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Insert Foot: Remember Monty Python’s lesson on Super Bowl Sunday
Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. As you prepare to shovel seven pounds of bean dip into your pie hole and slurp down 25 Budweisers using a football game as an excuse, making yourself wish you were dead come Monday morning, I pose a question: Why? Doesn’t Super Bowl Sunday usually feel…
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Narada Michael Walden updates SB anthem ‘We’re the 49ers,’ blends sports and music
Producer and musician Narada Michael Walden has updated his San Francisco Super Bowl anthem, “We’re the 49ers.” You’d be hard-pressed to get Narada Michael Walden to pick a favorite between writing and producing hits for Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, or sneaking members of the San Francisco 49ers into…
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Insert Foot: Taylor Swift divides America by going to the Super Bowl
Insert Foot is cool with Taylor Swift but less so with the NFL and the Super Bowl. Let’s talk Tay-Tay, Trav-Trav and how, yes, of course the biggest story in professional football continues right through the Super Bowl, because how could it not? The points: In this corner, the…
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REWIND: San Francisco and Kansas City go head to head… in music
San Francisco Band Faith No More, L-R: Roddy Bottum, Mike Patton, Jon Hudson, Billy Gould and Mike Bordin. Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns. I’m a diehard 49ers fan so you’re getting a Super Bowl column. I may write another celebratory, gloating one later if they win. If they lose, I’ll…
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Journey fuels the San Francisco 49ers improbable trip to the Super Bowl
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It was halftime at Levi’s Stadium, the score 24–7 in favor of the Detroit Lions, and the mood about as dismal as one could imagine. The stadium rocked to its foundation for the player intros and that was basically the last thing 49ers were able…