I was just thinking this morning that 49ers fans are lowkey some of the most tormented of football fans over the last generation. They haven't won a Super Bowl in 30 years, they've had large stretches of that time when they've stunk terribly, and while they did make it to 3 Super Bowls in that time, they lost each one in excruciating fashion. Oh and their most promising team got blown up because the head coach and the GM couldn't get along well enough to work together and the owner backed the GM.
It's actually worse than this:
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All but one of those 8 seasons ended in awful losses.
- 1997: Lost at home to GB 23-10. I attended this one, a dreary game in the rain. Frustrating since it was the third year in a row GB knocked them out, but not excruciating.
- 2011: Lost at home to NY in OT. This is the game where Kyle Williams twice fumbled punts, including in OT to let NY kick the winning field goal.
- 2012: Lost the Super Bowl to the Ravens when they had first and goal on the 7-yard line with 2 minutes left, needing a TD to win the game, and couldn't score.
- 2013: Lost 23-17 in Seattle in the game where Richard Sherman tipped away the potential winning TD pass for an INT.
- 2019: Blew a 10-point 4th-quarter lead to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
- 2021: Blew a 10-point 4th-quarter lead to the Rams in the CCG after Jacquaski Tartt dropped the game-sealing INT.
- 2022: Lost in Philly when all the QBs got hurt.
- 2023: Lost the Super Bowl in OT after leading by 10 early in the game and by 3 both with 2 minutes left and in OT.
Now (rightly) no one has much sympathy because they won 5 titles in 14 years immediately before this. And they've had some great wins in the last 30 years: three conference championship games wins (in two of which they came back from 17-0 and 24-7), the Catch II and the Catch III, beating Green Bay five times in the playoffs in a row (including twice in GB), beating Dallas twice. So it's not like the Lions or the Browns or the Bills. But there have been some rough ones.