Officially label me a Conflicted 49ers Fan.
I grew up loving the Niners. I still love the Niners.
And yet...
...Mooch.
He says from the very beginning of the season, "We don't have a lot of depth. This is a rebuilding year." He says, "We've got a lot of work to do." He says, "We're taking it one game at a time, and we're really just trying to build the team." Then he makes it well into the playoffs, finally gets beat by the team that would later go on to win the dang Super Bowl, and what is the owner's reaction? Firing the guy, as though getting to the second(?) round of the playoffs in a
rebuilding year was not enough.
I'm genetically incapable of rooting against the Niners, but there's a tiny ugly part of me that doesn't want them to do very well this year, just to show everybody that Mooch was better than they thought. I still love Garcia, even if he looks funny and sounds funnier. I love Owens, even if he mouths off way too much (although for all his trash talk, he's never been charged with any kind of actual crime, and the money he made from that infamous Sharpie commercial went to a nonprofit organization that deals with some disease his grandmother has -- I think it was Alzheimers; so Owens might be a bit more complex than most people give him credit for). But even though I could care less about the city, I was still cheering when Detroit won its first game.
So we'll see.
Tacky's Love/Hate List
Love the Niners, with caveats from above -- Tak's main team
Love the Broncos, Tacky's wife's main team -- c'mon, Plummer! That was the
ugliest 3-TD, 0-Int performance I've ever seen.
Like the Bucs -- and yeah, liked 'em before they were SB winners.
Like the Seahawks, who are somehow first in their division right now
Sorta dislike the Rams -- mostly backlash from the "While they lost the Super Bowl, but clearly they were the best team last year" garbage from last year
Sorta dislike the Packers, although I respect them immensely
Dislike Dallas, partially abetted by wife, who grew up in New Mexico -- where the Broncos and the Cowboys were sort of the Niners and Raiders of the area...
Hate Oakland, as required by 49er Fan Code of Conduct -- Oakland losing the Super Bowl was much more important than the Niners even getting there. Buncha trash-talking punks
The first Sunday was a good day for me. This most recent Sunday... somewhat less so.
) Ah, to have a dream!
