This is a strange time for San Francisco 49ers fans. The team qualified for the NFC playoffs, but isn\u2019t playing in the NFC Championship game. For those unaware, the Niners under Kyle Shanahan either miss the playoffs altogether or at least play in the NFC title game. To make things worse, the two NFC teams fighting for a Super Bowl berth are the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n
As a 49ers fan, I actually don\u2019t even think there is a football game on February 8th at Levi\u2019s Stadium. There is a concert being held by my fellow Puerto Rican native and the most-streamed artist in the world, Bad Bunny, but not a football game.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I think the NFL is playing a game at Benito\u2019s concert on the 8th.<\/p>\n
The old \u201cI hope both teams lose\u201d mantra will be worn out on Sunday, but sadly, one team has to win and advance. Gone are the days of wishing for a tie due to the postseason.<\/p>\n
So, what is the proper way to root this weekend? Obviously, 49ers fans aren\u2019t rooting for either side, but what would be the perfect scenario for this weekend and the Super Bowl? I\u2019ve given this a ton of thought, crunched the numbers, and put in the man-hours to come up with the best scenario possible for 49ers fans. Before you even suggest it, no, it doesn\u2019t involve Bane from Dark Knight Rises taking over Seattle. Trust me, I\u2019ve thought that through.<\/p>\n
The perfect scenario involves one team winning the NFC and advancing. Which team is that? It\u2019s the Los Angeles Rams. Put your pitchforks down, I have a plan. Seattle advancing to a Super Bowl in Mike MacDonald\u2019s second season as head coach would most likely lead to the rookie head coach winning his first Super Bowl and getting one before Shanahan.<\/p>\n
But Jason, does that mean you are rooting for the Rams? Not on your life, but the scenario does involve Sean McVay advancing to his third Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how it works. The Rams knock off Seattle, and the Patriots defeat the Broncos. Now, it doesn\u2019t actually matter which AFC team knocks off the Rams in the Super Bowl, but this perfect scenario involves the Patriots. Here\u2019s why: McVay lost his first Super Bowl to the Patriots, and his second loss in three attempts would be in Levi\u2019s Stadium to the same Patriots, sans Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s also throw in the two MVP candidates. Think of it, the Patriots win, and Drake Maye is lifting the Lombardi. No matter if he wins the AP NFL MVP award, he would have the trophy that Matthew Stafford wants more. It\u2019s all around a beautiful thing to envision as a 49ers fan.<\/p>\n
Sadly, we are only left to hate-watch the next two weeks of football. But we can enjoy the Benito Bowl, and soak in the 17 Rams fans\u2019 tears! So, there you have it, 49ers fans. We can still have fun with football while we wait for the 49ers to return to action. If that electrical substation was actually a thing, maybe it could knock out the Rams\u2019 communication on Super Bowl Sunday, too.<\/p>\n
Ok, now I\u2019m off the deep end, but I\u2019m thinking outside of the box and considering all possibilities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a strange time for San Francisco 49ers fans. The team qualified for the NFC playoffs, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,781,6,1161,252,85370,85489,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-699809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-discussion","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115946477613946610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}