The Bay: A San Francisco 49ers Franchise

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The Bay: A San Francisco 49ERS Franchise

Console:
Xbox 1st gen

Level:
All-Madden

Quarters:
9 Minutes

Sliders:
Custom

Injuries:
+5 ingame
+5 simmed

Pre Season:
simmed

Trades:
- Draft Picks:
2 max per mound granted that another pick is traded
-Players:
any real life trades (49ers only)

Free Agents:
90-99 - 1
80-90 - 2
70-80 - however many to meet roster
60-70 - however many to meet roster

Rosters:
Manually Updated (I don't have Live so they are just before the season began; Vick, Everett and Taylor have been lowered so they will not appear in this game)

Draft:
Madden

Updates:
So like last time, I will update as much as I can. Every 4 weeks in the game I will post key injuries, only the 4 weeks+ injuries. Key stats and division standings too. this one will be more lengthy. Moved the xbox into my room so my bros won't save over like last time :P

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The Franchise


-Hall of Famer Joe Montana and Bill Walsh made the 49ers the team to beat in the 80's

-The 49ers entered professional football in 1946 as a member of the All-America Football Conference. Though the 49ers could never unseat the dominant Cleveland Browns, they nonetheless were a strong second-best team in the league. Upon the dissolution of the league after the 1949 season, the 49ers, along with the Cleveland Browns and the first Baltimore Colts were granted admission to the National Football League in 1950.

The team's name came from the California Gold Rush gold-seekers who came to the San Francisco area during 1849. It is the only name the team has been affiliated with and San Francisco is the only city in which it has resided.

The team was led in its turnaround from late 1970s doormat by new owner Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. and head coach Bill Walsh. The former head coach of Stanford University was known for stockpiling draft picks, making excellent draft selections, and patching roster holes by acquiring key free agents.

Bill Walsh was hired to be the 49ers head coach in the 1978 off-season. Walsh was a disciple of Paul Brown, and served as Brown's offensive coordinator with the Cincinnati Bengals from 1968 to 1975. Desiring head coach experience, Walsh looked to Stanford University in 1977. He had had some success there before the 49ers tapped him to be their replacement.

In the 1979 draft, the Dallas Cowboys were placed just ahead of the 49ers. The Cowboys' draft strategy through that time was to take the highest-ranked player on their draft board at the time of their selection, regardless of position. When the Cowboys' turn came up in the third round, the highest rated player on their board was Montana. However, feeling that the quarterback position was in excellent long-term shape with Roger Staubach and Danny White, and desperately needing a tight end, the Cowboys went off their strategy and drafted Doug Cosbie. The 49ers, and Walsh, took Montana.

Montana's success in the playoffs, and his success in leading the 49ers on big comebacks, made him one of the biggest stars in the NFL, and arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. Not only was he the face of the 49ers, but his easygoing and modest manner enabled his celebrity to transcend football. Additionally, it caused other teams to consider players who, although not physically gifted, nonetheless had certain intangibles and tendencies that made them great players who could come up big in the toughest of situations.

After an extensive coaching search, the 49ers announced the hiring of Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, as their head coach for the 2005 season. He is the son of Dick Nolan, who led the team to three consecutive playoff appearances in the early 1970's. Among many NFL franchises, the general manager makes strategic, player and coaching personnel decisions; the 49ers hired a head coach without hiring a GM, indicating that Nolan will likely exert substantial control in all of these areas. In his inaugural draft as head coach, Mike Nolan selected with the first pick of the draft quarterback Alex Smith of the University of Utah. It was a pick predicted by most, though many predicted the 49ers might select local product Aaron Rodgers of the University of California, Berkeley.

At the beginning of the 2006 season, the team made perhaps their most important decision, awarding the top running back spot to second year veteran Frank Gore from Miami. Gore ran for a franchise record of 1,695 rushing yards, which led the NFC, along with 8 TDs. He was awarded his first Pro Bowl appearance as a starter.

Sources from Wikipedia

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The Head Coach


-Nolan finished last season at 7-9, is he going to bring a championship to the bay?

-When Mike Nolan took over San Francisco’s head coaching reins in 2005, he knew the expectations laid out in front of him were immense. Walking into an organization that had no recent history of success was one thing, but joining one of professional football’s most storied franchises put a greater responsibility on his shoulders.

Nolan set lofty goals to get the club back into the League’s upper echelon while carrying on the winning tradition set by many celebrated players and coaches from the past, including his father, Dick Nolan, former 49ers head coach from 1968-75.

“There is an expectation level of performance and we have a responsibility to past players,” Nolan confirmed. “That is the responsibility of the players, coaches and the entire organization to get back on track.”
Nolan welcomed the task and challenged his team to capture the NFC West title, a goal that he says will not change.

“When you go forward, there is no choice in the leadership role,” Nolan boldly stated. “You have one choice, and that’s to lead and you don’t lead from a loser’s perspective. You lead from a winner’s perspective.”

Nolan’s burning desire to win was the exact ingredient Owners Denise and John York were looking to add to the 49ers organization when hiring the franchise’s 15th head coach on January 19, 2005. It marked the same exact date his father, Dick, was hired by the 49ers 37 years earlier. Growing up under the wing of his father, who captured three straight NFC West Division Championships (1970-72) in San Francisco, gave him an early desire to lead a life dedicated to football and family.

“When I was named the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, it fulfilled a lifelong dream to follow in my father’s footsteps,” Nolan said. “I have always considered myself one of the 49ers Faithful having grown up in the Bay Area, I can say that I was once a fan as well.”

Mike and Dick Nolan became the fourth NFL family along with Don and David Shula, Jim Sr. and Jim Mora Jr., and Wade and Bum Phillips to have a father and son handle head coaching roles and the only ones to coach with the same franchise. Some of Mike Nolan’s most vivid childhood memories were watching from his father’s shadow on the practice field and in the locker room and building relationships with players who were some of the greatest to ever play the game.

“Mike was nine years old when I played here when his dad was hired,” 49ers Hall of Fame LB Dave Wilcox said. “He used to hang around the locker room. The way he coaches sounds exactly like his dad. Very thorough, knew what he wanted to do, knew he was going to get there. So I’m convinced that he’ll do that.”

Sources from 49ers

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The Home Front


-Candlestick cost 15 million dollars, the stadium might be cheap,
but it saved lives during the 1989 earthquake.
It can house 70,207 screaming fans.

-Ground was broken in 1958 for the new home of the National League's San Francisco Giants, who were moving west from New York. The Giants officially chose the name of Candlestick Park after a name-the-park contest on March 3, 1959. Prior to that, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium. In a sense, it was the first modern baseball stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of reinforced concrete.[3] Richard Nixon threw out the first baseball on the opening day of Candlestick Park on April 12, 1960. The Oakland Raiders played their 1961 American Football League season at the stadium. In 1971, the NFL's San Francisco 49ers became tenants as well.

The Beatles performed their last live commercial concert at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966.

The stadium was enclosed during the winter of 1971–72 for the 49ers, with stands built around the outfield. The result was that the wind speed dropped marginally, but often swirled around throughout the stadium, and the view of the Bay was lost. Candlestick Park has the distinction of being the sole remaining NFL stadium that started life as a baseball-only facility that underwent extensive reconstruction in order to add a football field. This accounts for the stadium's odd oblong design that leaves many seats on what was the right-field side of the stadium behind the eastern grandstand of the stadium during football games. Other baseball parks that had been converted to house football include Angel Stadium of Anaheim and Mile High Stadium, although Angel Stadium has long since been reconverted to baseball-only, and Mile High Stadium was demolished in 2002.

Candlestick also has the dubious distinction of being the last NFL football stadium in which upper-deck supports obstruct the sight lines from the prime first-deck seating.

The Stick was also home to dozens of commercial shoots as well as the location for the climatic scene in both the 1962 Blake Edwards thriller Experiment in Terror, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick, and the 1973 Richard Rush comedy Freebie and the Bean, starring James Caan and Al Arkin.

On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake (measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale) struck San Francisco, minutes before Game 3 of the World Series was to begin at Candlestick. Amazingly, no one within the stadium was injured but minor structural damage was incurred to the stadium. Al Michaels and Tim McCarver, who called the game for ABC, later credited the stadium's design for saving thousands of lives.[3] The World Series between the Giants and Oakland Athletics was delayed for 10 days out of respect for the loss of life and property, and also to give engineers time to check the stadium's overall structural soundness (and that of nearby Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum). In addition, the 49ers moved their game against the New England Patriots on October 22 to Stanford Stadium.

Sources from Wikipedia

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07-08 OFFSEASON

Coaching Staff-
Head coach Mike Nolan enters his third year with the 49ers. He is joined by offensive coordinator Jim Hostler, defensive coordinator Greg Manusky, and special teams coordinator Al Everest. Norv Turner left the 49ers to become the San Diego Chargers' Head Coach.

Free Agency-
The 49ers addressed their problems in the secondary with the signing of veteran cornerback Nate Clements from the Buffalo Bills. The contract was worth $80 million for 8 years, the largest contract given to a defensive player in NFL history. They also signed strong safety Michael Lewis from Philadelphia on the same day. Other key defensive pickups included linebackers Colby Bockwoldt and Tully Banta-Cain and nosetackle Aubrayo Franklin. The team also addressed its wide-receiver needs by signing former Denver Bronco and Atlanta Falcon, Ashley Lelie and Seattle Seahawk, Darrell Jackson. San Francisco also used the free agency period to extend Gore's contract to 4 years worth $28 million, $14 million of which is guaranteed.

49ers 2007-2008 Draft-

RD	OVR	NAME	POS	SCHOOL
1	11	Patrick Willis	LB	University of Mississippi
1	28 (via trade)	Joe Staley	OT	Central Michigan
2	42	Traded to Indianapolis
3	76	Jason Hill	WR	Washington State
3	97 (compository pick)	Ray Mcdonald	DE/DT	Florida
4	104 (from Washington)	Jay Moore	LB	Nebraska
4	110	Traded to New England
4	124 (from Jets)	Traded to Seattle for WR Jackson
4	126 (from Colts)	Deshawn Goldson	S	Washington
4	135 (compository pick)	Joe Cohen	DT	Florida
5	147	Tarrel Brown	CB	Texas
6	186	Thomas Clayton	RB	Kansas State

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It looks like this will be good, I'll be following.

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Bill Walsh Passes Away at 75
-ESPN analyst team

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bill Walsh changed the look of the NFL with his offensive innovations and legion of coaching disciples, breaking new ground and winning three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers in the process.

Nicknamed "The Genius" for his creative schemes that became known as the West Coast offense, Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following a long battle with leukemia. He was 75.

"This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers," said the 49ers' Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana. "Outside of my dad he was probably the most influential person in my life. I am going to miss him."

Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the nation's most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies.


-Bill Walsh and his 49ers would forever change football

The soft-spoken native Californian also produced an army of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches.

"The essence of Bill Walsh was that he was an extraordinary teacher," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. "If you gave him a blackboard and a piece of chalk, he would become a whirlwind of wisdom."

Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984.

Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him his nickname well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

He visited with friends until the end. Tyrone Willingham, the former Stanford coach now at Washington, and Stanford donor and alumnus John Arrillaga went to see Walsh on Sunday, presenting him with the Stagg Award for his outstanding service to football.

"It's not just how he prepared his teams and his attention to detail and his training camps that all of football is still emulating," Willingham told ESPN's Joe Schad on Monday. "As a minority coach, here is a guy who stood on a table and said, 'A door should be opened.' His impact is so far beyond football. He opened a door worldwide that made a better America, not just a better American football."

Sources from ESPN

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I'll be following, lets go SF

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Originally Posted by tdoggy

I'll be following, lets go SF

thanks, like ur manny lawson sig by the way

Originally Posted by Harmon

It looks like this will be good, I'll be following.

thanks :D

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49ERS Top Draft Picks Profiles

Patrick Willis-
Position: LB
HT/WT: 6'-1", 242lbs
Jersey #: 52
College: University of Mississippi
Drafted: 1st round, 49ers #11, 2007
Experience: Rookie

Coach's Words: Patrick is fast and strong, physically and mentally, can use some work on cover plays, but he has a bright future, I expect nothing less than many pro bowls and anchoring at least 2-4 super bowl teams in defense. He did one hell of a job here at Mississippi. Did I mention he was fast?

Joe Staley-
Position: OT
HT/WT: 6'-5", 306lbs
Jersey #: 74
College: Central Michigan
Drafted: 1st round, 49ers #28, 2007
Experience: Rookie

Coach's Words: Strong, quick on his feet, sets up nicely, protects the pass, and powers through for the rush. The 49ers have one superstar lineman in the future. Expect his pancakes to be in the thousands by he time he retires. Gore will be a happy camper when he runs behind Joe.

Jason Hill-
Position: WR
HT/WT: 6'-0", 204lbs
Jersey #: 89
College: Washington State
Drafted: 2st round, 49ers #76, 2007
Experience: Rookie

Coach's Words: Fast, athletic, will jump for the ball. Good hands, can improve on route running, but his speed just kills. Broke plenty of records for us at Washington State. He's no Jerry Rice, but expect him to have a great career in the NFL.