After many afternoons watching the 49ers lose and lose and lose and lose; watching our star players being traded when we needed them the most, owners unwilling to invest the required money to pay a championship caliber franchise in a brutal division then and now; when the DeBartilo’s acquired the team, spent some money, went out and found the Guru of the game of NFL football, Bill Walsh. The team was classy before but with the acquisitions of Joe Montana and the litany of all pro, first class players that followed setting a very high standard for success, physically, mentally, emotionally and MORALLY!

In the mid nineties, the culture started to have some behaviors; (benign to begin with) that were a little unsettling; at least very different from the well disciplined, integrity ingrained; “classy” San Francisco 49ers. Deon Sanders was the beginning of a too long a list representing players who became problematic, behaviorally unrestrained with unacceptable sportsmanship; acting like jackasses. Terrell Owens taking the ball from the endzone to the Dallas star in the center of the Cowboy’s stadium was a glaring example (of what for many seamed benign), of the culture showing some weaknesses in its integrity that took the 49ers to five Super Bowls.

Meanwhile, all around the NFL, other teams were having star power becoming “Fall Power” bringing down a teams morality, ethic and competitiveness. Players being arrested and worse convicted of very serious offenses, disturbing acts of cruelty and violence, was becoming a common theme. Michael Vic’s animal cruelty conviction is just one of the many examples of the kind of gross defilement’s of life; dehumanization of spouse’s; wives, assault and battery- pure brutality resulting in life threatening injuries or death. Murder is not without representation of the many grossly nefarious criminal NFL players. The SF 49ers had a unprecedented run of “THUGS” being signed to the franchise! Alson Smith of course the top of that list of rejects and waste of life. From Ricky Waters to Ruben Foster, the 49ers have had a horrible bout of poor vetting of prospects and players. When Harbaugh left, the problem became an epic epidemic of nefarious plays until Shannahan and Lynch brought the Raines in stopping the coach of self distraction; turning it around the other direction with a handful of veterans and a sea of rookies that were properly vetted, evaluated and becoming very successful. Bill Walsh 2.0. Every team that takes on a mentally hostile, unsportsmanlike toxic culture and fan base has very quickly devolved and with a losing record shortly there after. Seattle’s Legends of Boom is an excellent example. Eagles, Browns, Dallas. Oakland and many others have gone through a period that is negative and hostile finding themselves in trouble having to take out the trash completely rebuilding from the grounds keeper up! The 49ers did this 2018. Trent Williams was the only player on the 2019 squad that went to the Super Bowl second year of removing an entire team rebuilding anew.

I think all that money exasperated these players who were criminally negligent and insane; a feeling of being an exception because of star power has these men experiencing delusions of grandeur and superiority. Whatever the case, it is depressingly tragic and heartbreaking. Hopefully the 49ers have learned this lesson and put their sins behind them and that the rest of the NFL will soon follow suit..

This is one of those rare reports that reminds us of that journalism can actually be a real thing, not just a cloak for culture-destroying idiots.