The Greatest 49er Game You Likely Didn’t Attend

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Published: May 14, 2009

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... New Year's fighting for a taxi, fighting traffic to get to a typical bar, and then fighting through a typical New Year's Eve crowd of amateurs just to get a beer.

I was single back then, and ready to put the closing touches on a rather lackluster year for me. But what got me through the minutia of another New Year's that didn't live up to the hype was knowing where I was going to be the next day...Jan. 1, 2006.

Monster Park: A wet, sloppy affair that hardly resembled true NFL football being played out in a pillow fight for the ages, that in the week leading up to it came to be known as "The Reggie Bush Bowl."

A laugher of a game being contested by two laughable teams at the time, both 2-13 going in, and it was quite possibly the best time I've ever had at Candlestick Point. I'm pretty certain that two teams as dreadful as the '05 Niners and Texans had never met in a game that late in the season with so much riding on the outcome&mda...

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