For some football fans, like Bruce Farrell Rosen, the implications of the big game are personal and emotional.
The San Francisco 49ers lost Super Bowl 58 on February 11, 2024 to the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs.
I plumb the depths to try and understand why losing this Super Bowl hurts more intensely than any loss I have ever experienced as a lifelong sports fan.
I love this team, their red uniforms and gold helmets a bridge to another time when the red and gold brought such joy and euphoria to a city that had been in deep despair.
In the 1979 NFL draft, the brilliant new coach, Bill Walsh, selected two players that would change the fortunes of the San Francisco 49ers–indeed all of professional football for a generation. He selected Joe Montana and Dwight Clark.