49ers vs. Seahawks ends miracle 2025 San Francisco season

I’m going to do one thing I do not usually do and drop primarily all the pieces I discovered in journalism college within the identify of stream-of-consciousness ideas on the 2025 San Francisco 49ers (nonetheless did the total workforce identify, phrase to Sac State J-School) after their divisional playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks (he did it once more).

This 49ers season had no enterprise being enjoyable.

The Nick Bosa damage in Week 3 felt like the top of their Super Bowl hopes. The Fred Warner damage in Week 6 dashed mainly all the pieces that was left of any optimism about their probabilities of doing one thing this yr. It had 2020/2024 vibes, and that was depressing.

But this season, regardless of a blowout loss to Seattle on Saturday, was not depressing. It was tremendous duper enjoyable (analytics, catch the wave), and it is simple to neglect that issues.

I’m the managing editor right here at Niners Wire. I additionally host a podcast referred to as Candlestick Chronicles. Both are sources of earnings for me which turned a factor I’ve cherished my complete life (the 49ers) right into a job. Objectivity turns into a necessity and fandom wanes into one thing totally different than the factor that after prompted the start of the top of a long-term relationship to finish as a result of the particular person thought it might be humorous to placed on highlights of the 49ers shedding the Super Bowl solely two days after the sport.

However, there’s nonetheless a part of me that cares deeply concerning the 49ers. I grew up with my mother as a 49ers season ticket holder. I went to video games at Candlestick and at Levi’s Stadium. My first core soccer reminiscence is watching the Terrell Owens catch towards the Green Bay Packers within the 1998 wild card sport. I used to be at Candlestick for the 2011 divisional playoff sport towards the New Orleans Saints (anotha one), and the subsequent week towards the New York Giants (anotha one). I watched the 2012 divisional playoff win over the Green Bay Packers (he is on hearth!) on the San Francisco airport whereas I waited for my mother and grandfather, who have been on the sport, to come back choose me up. We celebrated within the automotive the entire method house.

There are so many different reminiscences within the financial institution which have helped form me as a sports activities fan and pushed me to get into the occupation I at present maintain. They’re a part of me, which helps put the 49ers’ loss to the Seahawks on Saturday into perspective.

Sometimes within the crush of the information cycle and attempting to supply goal evaluation of what is occurring, the enjoyable of soccer and the explanation I really like the game will get misplaced. This season helped me bear in mind it.

San Francisco had no enterprise being 12-5 and enjoying for the No. 1 seed in Week 18 of the common season. They had no enterprise going to the playoffs. They had no enterprise profitable a playoff sport on the street in Philadelphia. And whereas a 41-6 loss in Seattle is a, um, suboptimal conclusion to the season, it would not erase the journey.

It would not erase the 49ers’ 3-0 begin and Mac Jones’ insane run because the workforce’s beginning quarterback.

It would not erase Christian McCaffrey’s chase for an additional 1,000-1,000 season or Kendrick Bourne’s back-to-back weeks with 142 receiving yards.

It would not erase Brock Purdy’s game-winning landing move to Jake Tonges in Week 1 at Seattle, or the upset win over the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football in Week 5.

Pick a reminiscence from this yr. There was a lot pleasure in it regardless of how sideways issues acquired on the damage entrance.

The 2025 49ers season dominated, even when it ended with a dreadful efficiency in a loss to their greatest division rival. Seattle will get to maneuver on. San Francisco would not. But the 2025 49ers and all of their varied backups-turned-starters will maintain a particular place within the deep 49ers reminiscence financial institution in my head that can perpetually be neither closed nor locked.

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