Asked this week what made Eddie DeBartolo Jr. worthy of induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, former 49ers president Carmen Policy didn't begin by talking about the former Niners owner.
He started by discussing Bill Walsh.
Walsh transformed the NFL and led San Francisco to three Super...
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February 02, 2012
I remember when I was ten years old. It was 1992, Steve Young won the MVP that year, Jerry Rice caught 84 throws and made 10 TDS. The Niners also won the Super Bowl that year, beating The San Diego Chargers. That is the team I want to have back, that's the team I would love to be over.
Back then it wasn't just Young and Rice carrying the team, we heard names like Bryant...
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February 02, 2012
Safety Assessment
The 49ers probably had more safeties than any other team in the league with six and most of them were active on game day. The contributions of starters Donte Whitner and Dashon Goldson helped make the defense elite.
Reggie Smith also got some playing time in the team's six...
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February 01, 2012
Matt Gonzalez, the former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and now chief attorney in the public defender's office, was in court the other day - but not to represent an indigent defendant.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi is allowing Gonzalez, his top deputy, to act as co-counsel for...
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February 03, 2012
NFL owners approved a $200 million loan on Thursday to help the San Francisco 49ers build a new stadium in Santa Clara.
In December, the Santa Clara Stadium Authority unanimously approved an $850 million construction loan for the stadium, which will cost approximately $1.02 billion. The rest of the cost will be covered by a hotel tax and Santa Clara’s redevelopment funds.
With...
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February 03, 2012
It's amazing what a difference $200 million can make. On Thursday, the 49ers received that amount in stadium support from the NFL, and all of a sudden, my exasperating 1 1/2-hour Muni ride to their last playoff game seems like a pleasure cruise.
The move from Candlestick to Santa Clara became...
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February 02, 2012
* ESPN.com’s Mike Sando reports that 49ers exec Gideon Yu was approved as a minority investor. I reported a while ago that Yu and Boston Celtics LP Mark Wan were coming on as separate 1% investors in the 49ers. I think both are officially co-owners now. According to an NFL source, Yu and Wan...
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February 04, 2012
Eddie DeBartolo, the former 49ers owner who hired Bill Walsh as coach and presided over five Super Bowl teams, fell short in his bid to reach the Pro Football Hall of Fame today.
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