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Memo to football fans: forget Super Bowl XXV in Tampa next Jan. 27. The real National Football League game of the year will be in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Dec. 3, when the defending Super Bowl-champion 49ers collide with the New York Giants. When they met a year ago, the 49ers won 34-24; expectations about the battle to come have been climbing alongside the win-loss statistics of both teams, which have achieved historic heights...
...Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears in 1934. The long spell between those streaks is a measure of how evenly matched the N.F.L. has become in the modern era of complex draft picks, free agentry and expansion. But this year the Giants under coach Bill Parcells and the 49ers under George Seifert sprinted away early from their closest pursuers. By early November both had virtually clinched their divisional championships. New York led the National Football Conference East Division by three games, while the 49ers led the N.F.C. West by five...
...want to be a concert pianist. I want to be mayor of Portland, Oregon. I want to be head of the Portland Art Museum. A fashion designer. President. Quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, my favorite team...
Taking over on its own 3-yard line late in the third quarter, facing a 17-0 deficit, the Crimson struck quickly with the precision of a San Francisco 49ers-type attack. Harvard QB Adam Lazarre-White exploited a missed assignment by the Dartmouth secondary to hit Robb Hirsch for a 25-yard gain. On the next play, fullback Matt Johnson slashed over the right side, broke two tackles and rumbled down the right sideline for 34 yards before being knocked out of bounds at the Dartmouth 38-yard line...
...Montana and the San Francisco 49ers,five minutes is an eternity to erase a three-pointdeficit. For Lazarre-White and the Crimson, it isjust enough time to force...