With Time to Rest, Gore is now Ready to Go vs. Saints

Finally, Frank Gore has had a chance to rest and feel healthy again. Come Saturday afternoon at Candlestick Park, the 49ers’ veteran running back should be back to his midseason self, ready to carry the football all game long against the Saints in an NFC division-round playoff game. But even if Gore were battered and bruised, he says he’d be good to go. After playing six seasons in the NFL without ever going to the playoffs, there’s no way Gore would pass up the opportunity to play Saturday. “I waited a long time,” Gore told Steve Corkran of the Bay Area News Group. “And my goal (as well as for) everybody who plays this game, is you want to go to this postseason. I always wanted that, to be able to show everybody in the world what I’m made of as a player.” The Niners will certainly need Gore Saturday if they want to get by the Saints and into the NFC Championship Game. Gore, 28, who rushed for 1,211 yards this season, is not only the w...