Red Sox/49ers Final Round Similarities

Today, some notes, surely tangental and hopefully of some interest and perspective.

Currently, after losing in the 58th Supe, Sunday past, the S.F. 49ers have lost three straight Super Bowls/final round entities, all in highly competitive, if not well played games, two essentially on the last play.

There is a perhaps, eery similarity to the Boston Red Sox history, certainly factually, as each team/franchise won its first 5 final round entities (cited here last week) and have lost at least the next three, all in both the Red Sox and Niners’ cases, in highly competitive entities.

Boston won titles in 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918, the last 3 with Babe Ruth, whose quantity of Yankees’ titles only exceeded his Boston crowns by one, another reason he would not have “cursed” the Red Sox.

They lost their next 4 final round entities/World Series, all in the maximum 7 games, three of those (’46,’75 and ’86) with multiple run(s) leads in the decisive tilt.

The Cardinals of St. Louis (early, rare prediction, usually I am “unrewarded” good on these, is watch them improve in this season, 60 years after their ’64 World Series win) never trailed and (7-2’d) Boston behind the great Bob Gibson in #7/’67 W.S. but it was a 7 game series.

The Niners, Supe champs without a defeat in such a game in ’81,’84, ’88, ’89 and ’94 with Col Kaepernick at the helm battled gallantly, only to lose to the Ravens in the ’12 season Supe.

At that time, it was John Harbaugh winning his lone crown, doing so vs brother Jim, who was in as Niners’ coach.

Jim Harbaugh finally won a crown, a college title with Michigan in 2023 (in ’24 he starts as Chargers coach, while brother John and his Ravens were one of three favorites denied by the Chiefs, in the just completed ’23 season ‘offs).

Four years ago the 49ers despite being up as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter lost to the Chiefs in that Supe and need I cite they lost the ’23 season Supe, in a game by most standards they ought to have won, after winning two ‘offs home games, they probably ought to have lost.

That’s all folks. (However, much else, just on final rounds in the future).

(Not so ?) arguably the greatest of all cartoon characters, Bugs Bunny, pictured above.

Of carrots, cheeseburgers, elusiveness and the Mahomes/Reid Chiefs certainly on a great run with 3 crowns in 5 seasons.