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Before things even kicked off between the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions in the NFC championship at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday, the internet was already blasting Fox for its broadcast of the game. Why exactly? Because the broadcast didn’t show enough of the pre-game military flyover, which included two F-35s and two F-16s: A rousing national anthem performance from Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi was punctuated by the quartet of planes roaring over the Santa Clara home of the Nine…
3 months ago
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A raucous Detroit Lions watch party at Ford Field took an extremely sad turn for the worse Sunday night, both because the 49ers turned a 24-7 halftime deficit into a 34-31 NFC championship win, and because of something almost as dreaded: “electric blue cocktails.” An estimated 20,000 fans filled the Lions’ home stadium in Detroit to see the Lions jump out to a 14-0 lead, warranting a live look-in from the Fox broadcast that showed thousands of fans going absolutely wild: But things went downhill…
3 months ago
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Hours after the San Francisco 49ers punched their ticket to the Super Bowl with a come-from-behind NFC championship victory against the Detroit Lions, merchandise was already on shelves at at the NFL Las Vegas Store at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. And somewhat predictably for an organization that gave control of its entire NFL Shop to Fanatics (which SFGATE columnist Drew Magary once described as “an awful company run by an even worse man”), the merchandise is not good. Well, not good if y…
3 months ago
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It’s hard to imagine a McDonald’s commercial making anyone cry, but that’s exactly what left 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey in tears. The ad in question featured his dad, former Super Bowl champion Ed McCaffrey — then a member of the Denver Broncos — being stuffed into a locker (an exhaustive internet search couldn’t turn up the commercial in question, but it was apparently very funny). Christian McCaffrey was 2.5 years old at the time and instead of laughing, he sobbed. “All he knew was…
3 months ago
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LATEST Feb. 3, 8:28 a.m. Model and influencer Olivia Culpo, 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey’s fiancée said mid-day Friday that she purchased a Super Bowl suite for the McCaffrey family as a birthday gift for her future mother-in-law, Lisa McCaffrey, whose birthday is on Tuesday. Turns out “moneybags” Olivia could afford it. Feb. 2, 11:52 a.m. You know the Super Bowl is expensive when a guy making $12 million a year raises an eyebrow at suite prices. San Francisco 49ers running back Christ…
3 months ago
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Six Cal softball players were verbally harassed by fans at Lamson Park in Lafayette, La., on Friday while kneeling during the national anthem. The altercation occurred before the first of two games over three days the Bears played against the University of Lousiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns that included one six-inning mercy rule final and two ejections. “Stand up!” fans could be heard yelling repeatedly on the ESPN Plus telecast Friday. “Stand up, California!” “Liberal wokeness” was shouted multi…
2 months ago
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Since 2021, the city of San Francisco has been without an alternative weekly. That’s the year SF Weekly ceased publication after four decades in the city, making it the last alt-weekly in the 7x7 to fall, joining the godmother of alt weeklies, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which ceased printing in 2014. SF Weekly has since been resurrected online by the former political consultant and current real estate investor who bought it in 2020, but like so many of its contemporaries, it’s now just a pa…
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“I’m a little bit hesitant to take this interview,” Eugene Cleghorn admits on the phone. It’s hard to blame him. A little over a month ago, the 37-year-old’s Mission-style burrito shop in New York City (yes, New York City) was at the center of an internet firestorm over — of all things — a poster required by the health department that details what to do if someone is choking. Cleghorn, who opened Super Burrito in Rockaway Beach in 2020, decided to have a bit of fun with the poster requirement, r…
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There’s probably no better way to really see San Francisco than zig-zagging on a bike across it looking for life-changing breakfast sandwiches. I did that for the past three years, racking up 300-plus miles biked, popping into beloved breakfast-all-day diners, adorable little coffee shops, breakfast sandwich windows, iconic SF corner stores and exactly one 1980s video game-themed cafe, before finally hitting the breakfast sandwich century mark last week. It felt like a good enough milestone to s…
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Let’s just say the Celtics’ 2022 NBA Finals loss to the Golden State Warriors didn’t go over super well in Boston. From salty “F—k Golden State” chants to fights, to having to read Drew Magary absolutely roasting the team and the city, the aftermath of the Celtics’ loss wasn’t pretty. And it certainly didn’t help that Warriors star Steph Curry went on an elaborate Rub It In tour for the ages after winning the title, or that he once again stole their souls in an overtime Dubs win in December that…
28 days ago
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You’ll be hard-pressed to find a former San Francisco Giants player enjoying his post-MLB life as much as Tsuyoshi Shinjo is. Shinjo, who played center field for the Giants during their 2002 World Series run, just started his third campaign as the manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters — a professional Japanese baseball team that Shinjo won a Japan Series with as a player in 2006. Since taking over as the Fighters’ skipper in 2022, he has: Worn a three-piece burgundy suit with a comically l…
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