The 49ers Showed The Power Of Championship Seasoning

I watched the great NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions, which San Francisco won 34-31, with complete fascination. By the end of the game, two numbers stood out to me as the most instructive of all: 77 and seven. Those are the number of Championship games played by members of each side. To be precise, San Francisco players had played in 77 Championships and Detroit players in seven. And while I know that numbers and statistics don’t actually play the game — that’s still up...