Notable SF/KC games BESIDES '94

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Notable SF/KC games BESIDES '94

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If these 'notable' matchup between two given teams are getting to be too much, please say the word. It just that it IS the end of the season, one more game, and these two teams have a notable-enough history despite being cross-conference. Of course there's the Week #2 1994 Classic - Montana VS Young! Joe not the only one, of course, to have played for both franchises. There's Steve DeBerg and also Alex Smith. Any others to name?

Both these teams did get to play each other nine times in the years leading up to the 'everyone-gets-to-play-everyone-now' era of 2002-present (Forty NIners lead the overall series thus far, 7-6). I kind of miss the old format: the pregame intrigue of two teams not having played against each other in a long time or one of the teams not having played at the other team's field in a long time. Starting in '78 (with two matchups already behind them) they did 'miss' each other in '79 and '88 due to KC, in each event, finishing in 5th-place the year prior thus being placed on that very 5th-place-schedule tract.

I'll start off with one that I find relevant not because either team was playing for a playoff-spot/positioning (both finished with losing records), but because it would be the only Bill Walsh/Marv Levy HC-to-HC matchup! Walsh, of course, was once an assistant for Levy twenty years earlier at Cal. This game being the SF@KC affair the day after Christmas during that notorious '82 strike-shortened season. Both teams were 2-5 going into Arrowhead. A bit disappointing for one looking at the schedule in the pre-season being that both had winning seasons the year before with SF, of course, being defending-Champs. The game was competitive-enough though producing more FGs than TDs. Lowery made two of them, Wersching made four (two from 40+yards out). SF didn't lead at all until the 4th Q, and then Ronnie Lott iced it with an 83-yard pick-six off Kenney making the final score, 26-13.
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74_75_78_79_ wrote:If these 'notable' matchup between two given teams are getting to be too much, please say the word. It just that it IS the end of the season, one more game, and these two teams have a notable-enough history despite being cross-conference. Of course there's the Week #2 1994 Classic - Montana VS Young! Joe not the only one, of course, to have played for both franchises. There's Steve DeBerg and also Alex Smith. Any others to name?
Steve Bono took over for the retired Montana as the starter in 1995. When Bono faltered in 1996, KC signed Elvis Grbac from the 49ers as a free agent.
I believe KC had an ex-49er at QB every season between 1988 and 2000, EXCEPT 1992, when Dave Krieg started 16 games. (Rich Gannon played some in 1996, 1997 and 1998 due to injury and ineffectiveness, but Bono and Grbac were the starters. )
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What about the Week 12 MNF game they played in 1971 at SF? Possible SB preview at the time. Chiefs went into Candlestick and beat them 26-17 (they may have been the best team in the NFL that year).
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7DnBrnc53 wrote:What about the Week 12 MNF game they played in 1971 at SF? Possible SB preview at the time. Chiefs went into Candlestick and beat them 26-17 (they may have been the best team in the NFL that year).
No matter how that KC team ranked in comparison to the other teams in the league that year if someone told Chiefs fans back in the early 70's that it would be 50 years before they would reach the Super Bowl again they would have told that person that they had had too much alcohol that day. It's funny that probably the two most successful teams when the Super Bowl started would both go through similar dry spells throughout the '70's and '80's.
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The only season, ever, in which both teams were respective top-seeds was 1997. Both finished 13-3. Of course neither made the SB but both played each other Week #14 at Arrowhead. KC was 9-3 going in, SF (in Mariucci's first year) 11-1. Chiefs won 44-9.
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