NFC Championship: San Francisco 49ers vs Seattle Seahawks

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Defy

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How to pick a team in the totally unlikable NFC championship | For The Win



Wtf fucking usatoday

NFC West gets no respect even though we clearly have the two best teams in the nfl. Smh i thought ppl would be amped for this game but once again the west coast gets no love. Oh well fuck usatoday and ftw
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WRONG! This shit was spot on with the exception of the nfc west being unlikeable.....maybe to the casual football fan....but the article was the absolute truth

How to pick a team in the totally unlikable NFC championship

Who to root for if you can't stand the Seahawks and 49ers.



Live from Seattle, it’s the Insuffera-Bowl.

Next Sunday, two of the NFL’s most polarizing teams — the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks — will meet in the NFC championship. Unless you’re a fan of either franchise, it’ll be tough to root for either team. Do you favor the talented, mouthy, chippy NFC West team with an efficient offense, monster defense and stereotypically obnoxious fanbase? Or do you go the other way and root for the other talented, mouthy, chippy NFC West team with an efficient offense, monster defense and stereotypically obnoxious fanbase?

We’re here to help. For The Win examines the three most unlikable parts of both NFC championship teams and tries to come up with a rooting interest in spite of all of them.

San Francisco 49ers

3. Colin Kaepernick

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Why to dislike him: Even Terrell Owens would think Kaepernicking is too self-indulgent.

Why to like him: When the quarterback gets into the open field and strides toward the first down marker like a gazelle, football is rarely more exiting. Also, how can you dislike a guy who does this?


2. Dirty play

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Why to dislike it: The Niners engage in more extracurriculars than your standard high-schooler trying to pad his college application. Late hits, pregame jawing, touchdown preening and post-play chippiness are the norm in San Francisco. It gets old. You’re not the 1974 Raiders. Just play, baby.

Why to like it: There’s nothing better than a villain. Both Seattle and San Francisco are fun to hate. Sure, you can dislike the Patriots or Peyton Manning, but they don’t give you too many reasons to do so, other than being great and not saying much at press conferences. The Niners and Seahawks embrace their roles. This is excellent and a much-needed development in a league that had threatened to become too vanilla.

1. Jim Harbaugh

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Why to dislike him: Jim Harbaugh is a hothead. He whines to refs like he’s playing point guard for Mike Krzyzewski (or like he is Mike Krzyzewski). He keeps that Sharpie around his neck like a doofus. He’s loud, brash and has no postgame decorum. He wears turtlenecks tucked into pleated khakis. If Johnny from The Karate Kid were an NFL coach, he’d be Jim Harbaugh.

Why to like him: He’s exactly like Jim Schwartz, only with discipline and success. Harbaugh is the first coach to ever take a team to a conference championship in his first three years as coach. If he doesn’t win a Super Bowl this year, it’ll only be a matter of time until he does. For all his foibles, you get the sense that Harbaugh is presenting his genuine self. He doesn’t care one iota what you think about him. You might not like him, but you have to respect him.

Seattle Seahawks

3. Pete Carroll

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Why to dislike him: He whoops it up like he’s coaching JV football.

Why to like him: He whoops it up like he’s coaching JV football.

2. Richard Sherman

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Why to dislike him: Sherman is a mouthy self-promoter who thinks it’s okay to talk smack to a three-time Super Bowl winner like Tom Brady.

Why to like him: He’s smart, funny and, most importantly, a phenomenal football player. You’re allowed to talk as much trash as you want when you can back it up.

1. The 12th man

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Why to dislike them: Congratulations, you’ve made CenturyLink Stadium loud. The fanbase of a minor-league roller hockey team could get the noise up to 100 db in that aluminum shoebox. It’s cool that the team retired the number 12 in 1984. It’s less cool when you realize they did it because there was no one else’s number to retire from a team that was outscored by more than 500 points in its first eight seasons.

Why to like them: If you lived in Seattle, you’d be a Seahawks fan too and you’d want nothing more than to be at CenturyLink Field next Sunday night, screaming at the top of your lungs in hopes of getting the 49ers to false start. The stadium acoustics help, but the fans are quite loud on their own. They deserve the hype.

The verdict

There’s a lot to like and a lot to dislike about both teams. Even if you don’t pick a team, the good news is that the NFC is guaranteed a worthy Super Bowl participant no matter who wins. There will be a great defense, fun offense with a young quarterback and great storylines and soundbites representing the NFC West. But if you still need a rooting interest, pull for Seattle. San Francisco was on the biggest stage last year and has multiple Lombardi trophies. Let’s give Seattle a chance to bring the championship to the Pacific Northwest.
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gimmefreemusic

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^that is actually pretty damn spot on about both harbaugh and the 12th man being the two most annoying things in the league. Plus Kaep and to a lesser extent Sherman being annoying as fuck.

If I'm being honest and not just hating I actually like Willis, Lynch, Gore, Davis, Thomas, Whitner, Tate and I used to like Boldin before the Ravens. So I'm not just blindly hating.
 
CHAPO GUZMAN

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Chuco

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Kaep vs Wilson post season stats

Colin Kaepernick:

Playoff Games Played: 5
Record: 4-1
Passing Yards Per: 244.2 (1,221 yds)
Rushing Yards Per: 75.4 (377 yds)
Total TD's Per: 2.6 (13 Total Passing + Rushing TD's)
Completion %: 58% (80/138)
GW Drives: 2
Terrible Playoff Performances: 0 (In Kap's "worst" game in the playoffs vs. BAL, he threw for 300+ yds and had 2 TD's)

Russell Wilson Career Playoffs:

Playoff Games Played: 3
Record: 2-1
Passing Yards: 225 ypg (675 Total)
Rushing Yards: 47.67
Total TD's Per: 1.3 TD's per game (4 Total)
Completion Percentage: 58.6% (41/70)
GW Drives: 1 (Marshawn Lynch 27-yd TD Run w/ 7:08 remaining)
Terrible Playoff Performances: 1 (Last Week vs New Orleans - 9/18 completions, 103 yds passing, 0 TD's)
 
MysticOracle

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yes yes...lets not like kaepernick because of his signature touchdown move...nevermind anyone else who has ever showboated in the end zone....and its funny as hell that we even know what kaepernicking is...dude just gets in the end zone that much and people are tired of it lol

and dirty play? please show me tape of all the random chippiness that takes place by the 49ers...

harbaugh is just driven by emotion ...he see's something he doesnt like or agree with he makes it known he's not happy about it...other times he's very calm...
 
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Mike Manson

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SEATTLE—Claiming the message was long overdue, players for the Seattle Seahawks issued a group statement Thursday imploring the team’s passionate, vocal fan base to shut the fuck up. “Hey, assholes, shut the fuck up and stop running your fucking mouths,” running back Marshawn Lynch said on behalf of the Seahawks roster, emphasizing that he and his fellow teammates have grown “sick and fucking tired” of hearing fans talk up the team at every available opportunity. “Yeah, we’re a good team and we’re having a good season. But that doesn’t mean you dickheads need to be constantly talking shit about us being the Super Bowl favorites and saying that no other team will have a chance against us for years to come. And just so we’re absolutely clear, you dumbasses aren’t ‘the 12th man,’ either. So just shut the fuck up already. Seriously, shut the fuck up.” Lynch added that fans also need to shut the fuck up when attending CenturyLink Field for this Sunday’s NFC Championship matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, calling the excessive crowd noise produced during Seahawks home games both “annoying” and “massively disrespectful.”
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