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This video is both outrageously funny and bad enough to make you cringe all at the same time. I felt slightly uncomfortable the first time I saw, but I still laughed.

This reporter (who kinda looks like Megan Good), asks Mike Singletary about talking to his mentor Bill Walsh when he became head coach. The problem is Bill Walsh is not his mentor and he’s been dead for a while now. She was supposed to say Mike Nolan…

What makes it 10x worse is when she goes “wait… what did I do wrong???”. Bitch… you are working the sidelines of a San Francisco 49er game and you don’t know that their greatest coach of all time is dead? She’s doing wonders to represent the legions of females who want to be taken seriously as sports journalists.

Shout out to The Flipcyde and KSK for the video]

Because this guy does NOT allow divas on his team.

Today during the weekly San Francisco 49er drubbing, Vernon Davis earned an unsportsman-like conduct penalty. As soon as he got to the sidelines Singletary chewed him out and kicked him off the field.

“It’s something I told players at the beginning of the week,” Singletary said after the game. “I will not tolerate players who think it is about them and not the team. We can’t make decisions that cost the team, and then come off the sidelines and it’s nonchalant. I’d rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else. Rather than play with 11, when I know that right now, that person is not sold out to be part of the team. It’s more about them, than it is the team. You can not play with them. You can not win with them. You can not coach with them, can’t do it. I want winners. I want people who want to win.”

“I told him he’d do a better job for us right now taking a shower and coming back and watching the game than going out on the field, simple as that,” Singletary said.

I ripped a video of the “altercation” .. but i have to apologize for the quality, I was testing out something new and it didnt come out right. Check it out below.

Here’s Vernon’s response …. Read the rest of this entry »

This might come as a surprise to some, but there was actually a time that I loved the 49ers. One of my most cherished childhood memories came in having the pleasure of seeing Steve Young firsthand as a part of the USFL’s LA Express. It was only natural for me to follow his every move once he became a part of San Francisco. Joe Montana was Mr. Everything to me too, and I remember having an autographed 8 x 10 picture. I think I actually still have it at my parents house somewhere. Then there was Roger Craig & Jerry Rice, the thunder & the lightning. All were a fond part of my 80s school daze in the Bay.

Then, somewhere along the way, maybe as I transformed into my East Coast self in the 90s, I somehow drifted astray from that allegiance. By the time I moved back to the Bay Area in 2003, the modern-era 49ers franchise was just too far gone to ever hold my interest.

Then today that all magically changed.

The 49ers first had a delay of game call in announcing they would fire head coach Mike Nolan after next week’s game. How bizarre is that? They then opted to just go for it and give Nolan his walking papers effective immediately. His interim replacement is assistant head coach Mike Singletary. And with that move alone, the Niners might just be able salvage what’s left in this season. I can actually, once again, cheer for them as I have long been a Mike Singletary fan. You will have to wait for my book for me to discuss what I refer to as ‘My Waco Years,’ but Coach Singletary once starred for the Baylor Bears under the legendary Coach Grant Teaff, hence my connection and never-ending props given.

Who cares that Coach Singletary has never been a head coach or even coordinator? He is a Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker and, on the real, was a serious head bussa in his day. I bet he can still make these youngins look like shook ones in the backfield on a 3rd down stop! No doubt he will have all ears in that locker room. And with his reputation for intensity, I bet it won’t be too many of these player personal-conduct issues popping up on his watch either. No sir.

Being a football fan in the Bay Area sucks, I’m not going to rehash the misfortunes of the Raiders and Niners for the last six years, so lets pick up in the here and now. The best thing about each Bay Area football team are their awesome punters, Andy Lee (S.F.) and Shane Lechler (Oak). Lechler and Lee both made the NFL pro bowl teams last year, and will probably make them again at the end of this season.

Thats right… the best part of our teams are when we give the ball back to someone else.

So i figure, why not highlight how awesomely bad we are? Why not share with the entire country just how bad it is here… because you guys around the country most likely don’t get the full gist. Each week (or day, depending on how bad it gets), I’ll share stories and links documenting the dysfunction in Oakland.

1. Coach Lane Kiffin publicly disowns the defense he has no control over (Link)
Brief rundown: In the offseason Kiffin wanted to fire the defensive coordinator, Al Davis said no. The Raiders defensive philosophy is not to blitz…. not blitzing is one of the major reasons Denver and Jay Cutler torched the Raiders secondary last week.

“I’m not going to get really get into if I was the defensive coordinator what I would do because that doesn’t really matter,” coach Lane Kiffin said Wednesday. “I’m the head coach. I oversee everything and I control what I can control. Do I have the exact belief we do on defense? No, but it’s hard to have the exact belief that we do. So, it is what it is.”

2. Local fans and beat writers call for action against Al Davis & The Yorks (link)
Yeah, thats right…. it’s gotten so bad that some people are calling for some kinda revolution to overthrow the evil bad team empires. Here’s a little piece from Nancy Gay:

You don’t want to hear Jed York telling you yet again why the 49ers need $136 million in redevelopment funding from Santa Clara to build a $900 million stadium. That won’t fix this.

Demand that Al Davis - yes, even though he is 79 and frail - stand before you. Not Jim Otto or Amy Trask. Make Al Davis explain why he has committed nearly $200 million of the Raiders’ future this season to unproductive free-agent signings. Why does he misjudge talent and character, year after year?

3. Raiders and Niners ranked as lowest valued franchises in the NFL by Forbes Magazine (link)
Our teams have low value because they play in piece of crap stadiums. They play in piece of crap stadiums because they never win… it’s a never ending cycle.

4. Warren Sapp blasts The Raiders and predicts bad news in 2008 (link)
Warren Sapp could still play the game when he retired, but he simply couldn’t take one more year of losing in Oakland. On a conference call for his new TV gig… he layed into them in true Warren fashion.

” “As far as where the Raiders are going, they have unrealistic ideas about what their people can do … That was the experience I had in the four years I was there. They asked people to do stuff they were physically impossible of doing.

“They asked a guy who hadn’t coached for 12 years to coach,” he said of former offensive coordinator Tom Walsh.

“They’re going to suck.”

I’ll probably have to update “Raiders disaster watch” more than I care to…. see ya later.

Word on the street is San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis is dating ‘Black’ from Flavor of Love 3. Although it wasn’t as good as the first two seasons, Flavor of Love was one of my favorite shows and Black was the best looking contestant. It seems as if she endured a few weeks of pretending she liked Flav, now she has the REAL prize in the form of a professional athlete…. not a bad trade off.

Update: I’ve been contacted by Vernon Davis’ publicist who says the rumors of a relationship with “Black” are 100% false. Here’s the statement in full:

“During Big Tiger’s 7th Annual Celebrity Weekend in DC, Vernon Davis posed for pictures with Black from Flavor of Love, as he did with most of the celebrities present that weekend. Rumors have started to fly that he and Black are dating, or that he is her new man. This is ABSOLUTELY not true. Vernon is single and is not officially dating anyone.”

I’ve include more pics of Candace a.k.a. Black below if anyones interested…. Read the rest of this entry »