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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 586825" data-attributes="member: 5171">I'm a Niners fan and I loathe the Raiders, but even I had to admit to having a grudging respect for Gruden when he was there.  Now that he's with the Bucs, I like him a bunch.  I'm rooting against him again this weekend, but if he beats my Niners, I'm rooting Bucs all the way in the Super Bowl.What's odd for me is the number of alliances I have to make with other football fans.  I spent most of this season rooting for Denver (and what a fat lot of good that did) to convince my wife to root for the Niners with me.  At least we were both firmly against Oakland.  Last weekend, I rooted for the Steelers with my father-in-law, and he rooted for the Niners with me.  We were both flushed, exhausted, but happy at the end of the day.And hey, knowing that my Niners will get to lose in Tampa Bay instead of at Lambau field has got to be worth something... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Tacky</blockquote>