Notable SF/KC games BESIDES '94
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:47 pm
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.
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.