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Sports "experts," goads of sports writers and columnists, all kinds of talking heads on radio and TV who talk way too much, and even his former coach don't believe in Taylor Mays. But I do. Since I'm a no one, that doesn't really matter, but to Mays all of the above does. This guy is gonna come in fuming, much as his USC buddy Rey Maualuga came into the league last year, after ...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has performed superbly as commissioner, but he and the NFL owners laid a rotten egg with the new overtime rule. On Sirius NFL Radio, former 49ers center Randy Cross mocked the change. "I was sure glad that ... we cleared up this whole overtime and the playoffs," Cross said. "You did know that 34 percent of the games in overtime are decided on the ...

Rumors of the 49ers' front-office shuffle have been greatly exaggerated. San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News columnists obviously didn't get the memo from the visiting Chester Pitts, who said, "Everybody has things that go on in their lives. In football, there are plenty of people who will step in and fill that role." Merc columnist Tim Kawakami led off the Scot McCloughan stories with this headline: "Latest crisis ...

I have never heard so many snivelers as I have heard talking about the potential change to the NFL's overtime rule. Would Vince Lombardi have ever favored the "do-overs," as Carl Banks calls overtime, that the NFL now allows? Only in the playoffs is sudden death an obvious necessity, for not getting the job done. In regular season, overtime is a namby-pamby excuse for mediocre play, and this generation's need for "do-overs." Overtime in ...

San Francisco 49ers operating owner Jed York has once again shown he is a class act. Under what must be difficult circumstances, he has shown his characteristic and praiseworthy restraint in dealing with a sensitive personnel issue. In this case, it's the reported leave of absence of general manager Scot McCloughan. It is to York's credit that the 49ers organization has remained mute on the issue, because McCloughan's reported ...

How many 49ers fans remember the "one-day wonder"? It occurred in 1991, when the team announced that its helmet logo would change from "SF" to "49ers." Hell fire and brimstone hailed down upon the storied franchise as fans and media blasted the doomed proposal, which was dropped as a serious proposal after a single day. Some faithful saw it as a sell-out in anticipation of what they thought would be the ...

How many 49ers fans remember the "one-day wonder"? It occurred in 1991, when the team announced that its helmet logo would change from "SF" to "49ers." Hell fire and brimstone hailed down upon the storied franchise as fans and media blasted the doomed proposal, which was dropped as a serious proposal after a single day. Some faithful saw it as a sell-out in anticipation of what they thought would be the ...

Today, I read a column by Mike Purdy of the San Jose Mercury News , and he stated that had Michael Crabtree been playing since the season started, the 49ers would have a winning record. Purdy might be correct. He gets paid to be a sports commentator, so it's his job to wonder what should have, could have or would have been. However, fans who share his view should not get overly ...

How could Green Bay fans boo Brett Favre in HIS house? Wasn't it primarily Favre who transformed this franchise from loser to victor? How could what sounded like the majority of fans boo him when he trotted on to the field? After all, he'll go into the Hall with Green Bay's own colors. Will they boo him then? On the way to the stadium, Favre also saw some one-fingered salutes, yet he spoke with ...

Score. Score a lot. Then score more. That's it. Fellow Bleacher Report writer Trea Faaborg added these: Block. Live in the weight room and the film room. Mind your mouth. Be a teammate. Originally, I had "block like Jerry Rice." In that spirit, I think I'll add go over the middle blind and expect to be pummeled, but hold on to the ball like Rice and Taylor did. Rice was total class, and we've had just the opposite in the distant ...