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The 49ers were an atrocious football team, and I remember a tight-end filling in for a quarterback who was injured. The turnaround came '78, '79 with the new owner Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. and new head coach Bill Walsh. I had never watched much football as a kid. It was pretty much like boxing before Cassius Clay, clench and body punch. They would line up and the ball carrier would run into the lines every time. Then the American Football League was formed and they hired track stars to catch passes and in that league it was pass every time as boring as running into the line every time.
Usually there was a car parked on north side of the street so the playing field was only the derivable portion of the Street and cars would come around the corner from Coso, it was a one-way west, and I would be there in the street. Some people didn't mind some did. The worst driver was the Christian his wife sometimes a missionary around the neighborhood. He wasn't very Christian about Wall Ball.
Dallas was America's team. But who the hell in America ever went to Dallas. No they all came to left my heart in San Francisco. But Dallas was America's team according to the TV networks, even when the 49ers were Superbowl champs so we didn't like them. Is it legal to make a left turn in Texas ? And then when they called the media liberal, it was even more galling. San Francisco was liberal or so they said but I was not always so sure.
And the West Coast offence was always a San Francisco passing game but never called that which was galling as well. But it turns out west coast was more correct since the type was originated as well in San Diego.
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