My cousin, who comes from a long line of 49ers fans, sobered me up faster than watching Rosie O'Donnell make out with a Twinkie.

I was droning on and on about the virtues of bleeding red and gold, when mid-sentence, he stopped me with a phrase that is still bone-chilling to this moment.

"The 49ers were good in the '80s and '90s, but I never saw it," he said.

Ouch. Sometimes, reality hurts worse than a Dan Henderson flying elbow.

It gets worse, apparently his friends feel the same way. They cannot seem to grasp the concept that the 49ers once were the sun to which other teams orbited. Now, they're more like Pluto, shed of their planetary title, indistinguishable from any of the other b...

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