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Crazylegs
Oct. 25, 1981, Candlestick Park
Ram kicker Frank Corral missed his fourth field goal of the day with 13 seconds left to play and the 49ers held on to win. It was the Rams’ first loss to the 49ers in San Francisco in 15 years.
Fred Dean sacked Pat Haden five times, but the 49ers didn’t do much else to end the streak. The Rams shot themselves in the foot. They were in 49er territory on 13 of 14 offensive possessions.
This is what I remember as a kid watching the Rams in the 70s. The 49ers were a team to be overlooked on the schedule. It was a near automatic W.
And your post, Crazylegs, is a tale of how fickle fate is where the Rams would fill the Coliseum to the brim and then LA would become libeled as a non-football town decades later when the Rams and Raiders left.
And it’s funny today how the insufferable 49er fans don’t seem to remember their down days in the 70s, but sure as hades remember the Walsh years and it’s aftermath. Which, of course, means that any recent successes is a guarantee of league domination for years to come.
Here’s the thing: Walsh was playing chess when John Robinson was playing checkers. And Robinson eventually caught on, he left 70s football behind, and traded for Everett, but he wasn’t playing ball control with the passing game like Walsh was.
Inspite of that during the 80s, Robinson fought Walsh to near.500% winning percentage.
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