Franchise history
A San Francisco 49ers develop a distinction of existence a foremost major-league agency sports franchise on the West Coast. the 49ers entered agent football around 1946 & matured, nationally & locally, whilst a club was granted a National League franchise inside 1950.

A team earned its title from either a surge of goldminers to the San Francisco area when you took 1849, thus a nickname a San Francisco 49ers. These are a sole title a team has been affiliated by having & San Francisco is the just city where it has resided.

A 49ers won 5 Super Bowls, four in the 1980s, & come considered the Team of a Eighties (the team got never won an NFL or possibly Extr Bowl championship prior, and got never even won a section title until 1970). It won XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, and XXIX. In a period of that decade, a team neglected to produce the playoffs exclusively twice — within 1980, and once again in the strike-shortened 1982 season which saw them last 0-Five home & Three-One on tour — the single period inside NFL history that the team went winless home when winning to a higher degree half its away games in the equivalent year.

A team was led around its turnaround from either late 1970s doormat by new owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. and head coach Bill Walsh. A previous head coach of Stanford University made excellent draft picks, picked higher key free agencies or even players freed by more teams, & "invented" a 'West Coast offense' (actually created by 1960s L.The. / San Diego coach Sid Gillman, and developed by Sid Luckman and San Diego State coach Don Coryell; Walsh refined and won Very Bowls sustaining it). Inside 1980,a 49ers trailed the New Orleans Saints 35-7, but led by Joe Montana, a 49ers pulled off the greatest regular-year comeback ever capping off by having an overtime field goal by Ray Wersching, the 49ers won it 38-35. In a period of their 1st Extr Bowl start a team was known for its short-range passing & the play-making ability of quarterback Joe Montana. Late, it became dominant altogether aspects of the game, featuring the dominant defense (universally in the offense's shadow) & the convenient-scoring pass attack (by using wide-receiver Jerry Rice). Another famed 49ers include Steve Young, Ronnie Lott, Dwight Clark, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Fred Dean, Eric Wright, Dwight Hicks, Deion Sanders, and Ricky Watters; there are many others. Since DeBartolo, Jr.'s departure, a team has experienced a policy of releasing star players a year as well early, like than a year as well late (to stay away from paying the pricy final years of back-loaded contracts). This NFL salary cap-inspired process has led to a bit of of their stars finishing their careers sustaining more teams, e.g. Joe Montana spent his go couple of years sustaining a Kansas City Chiefs. When retiring from either coaching in the early 1990's, Bill Walsh remained by having a 49ers when a favorite advisor to ownership in streaming video player & coaching job decisions, & as its occasional public frontman.

In the late 1990s Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. was exposed around the corruption investigation regarding Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and one of his Mississippi riverboat casinos. DeBartolo late pled hangdog to the failure to report the felony charge. As a a share of the fallout, he transferred controlling interest inside the team to his sister & brother-in-law, Denise & Dr. John York. DeBartolo amazingly resurfaced around 1999 when a share-creator of a expansion version of a Cleveland Browns (a last owners got relocated a franchise, however the NFL reserved the team's title & lineage for the freshly franchise promised to the city).

Around 2002 it produced a 2nd-greatest comeback around NFL playoff history by coming back from either a Xxiv point deficit (14-38) & winning 39-38 against the Up to date York Giants behind amazing games by so-49ers Jeff Garcia (quarterback) and Terrell Owens (wide receiver). It misplaced their subsequent game to the eventual Extr Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This would exist as, up to now, a go post-year appearance for the 49ers. As punishment a year, head coach Steve Mariucci -- whose published statements all about his degree of power in the organization got frayed already-strained relations by having management -- was fired, despite the winning record. a replacement, previous Seattle Seahawks (1995-1998: a 31-3Trio record concluded Iv seasons) & Oregon State (1999-2001: 31-17 by using 3 bowl games; the program experienced Twenty-eight straight losing seasons anterior) head coach Dennis Erickson was signed to a 5-month contract.

the time period since a 2001 year has been black for the 49ers: injuries; a frail offensive line; inconsistent defense. Although it finished the 2003 year using a losing record of 7-9, Erickson wwhen retained as coach for the 2004 year.

In September 26, 2004, the 9 were exclude 34-0 per Seattle Seahawks, their first such loss around 420 regular year & 36 playoff games, the league record. A previous skunk experienced been 27 years ago inside 1977 — they were defeated 7-0 by Atlanta at what was then referred to as Candlestick Park. the 49ers experienced many chances to score in the 4th quarter, however an interception & a muff recovery sealed their fate therein game.

When you took a 2004 year, hearsay that a Yorks will sell a team began spreading. Larry Ellison and NFL Hall of Fame ex-quarterback Steve Young have been a list virtually all unremarkably rumored when expected emptor. the 49ers would finish that year by owning a record of Two-14, their 2nd sequentially losing year (& finishing go in the NFC West section first since 1979, ending what had been a NFL's yearn active streak for non finishing endure within the section). It was besides a worst record that year among a 32 NFL teams, securing the children the right to the foremost pick in the NFL Draft. Erickson & a human world health organization hired him, General Manager Terry Donahue, were fired. When an extensive & reportedly mishandled coaching job seek, a 49ers announced a tardy hiring of Mike Nolan -- defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens -- as their head coach for the 2005 year. He is the boy of Dick Nolan, who led a team to terzetto sequentially playoff appearances in the early 1970's. a General Manager usually makes strategical, streaming video player & coaching job personnel decisions; strangely, a 49ers hired a head coach swell prior to hiring the head coach's boss. Inside his initiative draft when head coach, Mike Nolan selected with a 1st pick of the draft quarterback Alex Smith of the University of Utah. It was a pick predicted by several, though a few got the 49ers finding local product Aaron Rodgers of the University of California, Berkeley. Expectations come rosy that the newly coach & quarterback tandem provides renewed profits to a faltering franchise.

In May 31, 2005, it became public knowledge that a controversial streaming video production, designed to exist as viewed per players sole, got been manufactured the last August under the supervising of the team's public relations director, Kirk Reynolds, world health organization likewise appeared conspicuously within it. A streaming contained uncomplimentary unimaginative characterizations of many ethnic & more groups, including Chinese-Americans, lesbians, strippers and homeless persons — and worse however, was intended to become utilized for "media-relations training" purposes. A revelation led to Reynolds existence fired from either either his position, & sparked coarse condemnation of a club from a local media, world health organization instantly dubbed the scandal "Videogate." Coincidentally, a story broke on a equivalent day that the identity of "Deep Throat" from the Watergate scandal was made public (a 49ers story getting priority all over it in the San Francisco Chronicle) — and in another coincidence, an anon. source (widely thought to become recently-fired 49ers general manager Terry Donahue) "leaked" the story by sending the copy of the streaming videos to the media.

Tragedy struck a 9 in August 20, 2005, once OL Thomas Herrion died of unknown causes immediately resulting the pre-year loss to the Denver Broncos. Coach Mike Nolan got good finished addressing a players in the locker room once Herrion collapsed. He was taken to the local Denver hospital, in which he died many hours late. An pm revealed that Herrion died of the cardiopathy.

Players of note
Pro Football Hall of Famers
Leo Nomellini Joe Perry Hugh McElhenny Y. A. Tittle John Henry Johnson Bob St. Clair Bill Walsh Jimmy Johnson Joe Montana Ronnie Lott Dave Wilcox Steve Young

Current players
Anthony Adams NT David Baas G Billy Bajema TE Kevan Barlow RB Arnaz Battle WR Fred Beasley FB Steve Bush FB Dwaine Carpenter FS Andre Carter LB Ken Dorsey QB Marques Douglas DE Patrick Estes OT Frank Gore RB Derrick Hamilton WR Kwame Harris OT Eric Heitmann G Maurice Hicks RB Brian Jennings TE Jonas Jennings OT Eric Johnson TE Andy Lee P Brandon Lloyd WR Rasheed Marshall WR Johnnie Morton WR Joe Nedney K Jeremy Newberry C Tony Parrish SS Julian Peterson LB Ahmed Plummer CB Mike Rumph FS Justin Smiley G Alex Smith QB Derek Smith LB Adam Snyder G Isaac Sopoaga NT Shawntae Spencer CB Jeff Ulbrich LB Jamie Winborn LB Rashaun Woods WR Bryant Young DE

Retired numbers
12 - John Brodie 16 - Joe Montana 34 - Joe Perry 37 - Jimmy Johnson 39 - Hugh McElhenny 42 - Ronnie Lott 70 - Charlie Krueger 73 - Leo Nomellini 79 - Bob St. Clair 87 - Dwight Clark

Not to be forgotten
Thomas Herrion Jerry Rice Frankie Albert Abe Woodson R. C. Owens Dave Parks Bernie Casey John Thomas Ken Willard Kermit Alexander Len Rohde Gene Washington Randy Cross Fred Dean Jack Reynolds Ray Wersching Michael Carter Keena Turner Roger Craig Charles Haley Jesse Sapolu Eric Wright Matt Millen Harris Barton Brent Jones Tom Rathman Jeff Garcia Terrell Owens Derrick Deese John Taylor Jeff Fuller Ken Norton Jr Steve Mariucci Deion Sanders Tim Harris Garrison Hearst Richard Dent Ricky Watters George Seifert Dick Nolan David Kopay Freddie Solomon