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RealClearSports: 49ers Open Window to Glorious Past
9:54 AMBy Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
SAN FRANCISCO – They were The City’s team, in name and function, created here, not transported from New York or Philadelphia. And if they never reached the top, they were no less entertaining than a ride on one of those cable cars halfway to the stars.
The 49ers were so very San Francisco, adored, beloved and invariably stuck in the fog of mediocrity. Oh well, let’s go down to the Buena Vista Café and have an Irish coffee.
The Niners originally played at an expanded high school stadium in Golden Gate Park...
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