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...always been so. San Francisco was gay when that meant merry and blithe, back when its 49ers were gold prospectors, not football players. The city began as a boom town and never quite lost the founding giddiness. "San Francisco was zero in 1848, a Mexican village," says Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream. "And in 1870 it was the tenth-largest city in the United States." Ne'er-do-wells found themselves making fortunes on minerals or dry goods or prostitution. Young Yankees rode into town by the thousands, looking for adventure and gold...
...York Jets, but they are a good example of a talented team without cohesiveness. We're just not cocky people. When we beat the Rams [the division playoff], 51-7, everyone was ready to put us in the Hall of Fame. But now that we barely beat the 49ers [the conference championship], 24-21, we seem to be human again...
That year, Plunkett was released by the San Francisco 49ers, who had fetched him home to the Bay Area two seasons earlier, a reclamation project partially sentimental. Plunkett describes the sensation as "carrying the weight of the world," and says, "I thought about quitting." Rather, he moved over to Oakland, and sat around behind Ken Stabler for two full years and Dan Pastorini for part of another. He says, "I asked to be traded at the start of the 1980 season," but did not get his wish. It was the year he was the Most Valuable Player in the Super...
...passed too freely in the first half against Kansas State, the coach agreed, "We have sunk to new depths of depravity." He is not a man to whom laughter comes easily. Tall, rawboned, freckled, formidable, Osborne at 46 still resembles the wide receiver he became for the San Francisco 49ers after Y.A. Tittle and John Brodie convinced him that there were no openings for quarterbacks. At Hastings High School in Nebraska (some 100 miles west of Lincoln), he had been the star quarterback, Nebraska's prep athlete of the year. Like his father and grandfather, Osborne proceeded to Hastings...
...school colors are gold and blue, but the Irish showed up on the field dressed in green jerseys for only the third time in 20 years. The last time they wore green was the last time they beat USC, in 1977, when the San Francisco 49ers current quarterback, Joe Montana, came off the bench in the second quarter and led the team to a 49-19 win and the national championship...