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In Reply to: RE: 49ers give Cowchip Kelly a fine welcome to their new digs posted by LWR on September 28, 2014 at 16:51:42
True, they smothered the final throws, and true that Philly never got much going until the end, but that was close.
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full confidence in the defense and much laughter at for what the Eagles thought was an offense. Kaepers made a couple off miscues that had me miffed, but the momentum of the game allowed me to keep my feet up on the burl table!!
Kaepernick missed the clock countdown three times, if I recall correctly. I thought that'd all be behind him after last season. And calling time out instead of taking the penalty and punt the ball was a big lapse in judgement.
On the other hand, we won the game and had a good second half for a change. I breathed a sigh of relief when Defense held the Eagles up late near the goaline.
He made a great play throwing back across the field on the run to Gore!
See ya. Dave
was flat out amazing. Gore is 31 and still plays like a youngster...
I believe he made a public statement of such awhile back. He wants to go out on top, and it sounded like final season talk. Don't know if he actually said or hinted that.
Congrats to Niners; always a fun team to watch.
in SF, I would rent the drive way in front of the house and the driveway to the unused garage in the alley behind the house to game goers. Then I'd trot on down to Kezar and watch the fights on the field.
Chico, their long departed equip manager was able to get me 5 1980's autographed footballs, the Super Bowl teams. I was very close friends of Bill Walsh's personal secretary, Nicole.. Who, BTW, had the 3rd story of her passed mom's home filled with Elvis material and keepsakes...Grew up loving and still do the Niners.
YA Tittle lived near us in Mtn. View and we boys made 49er jerseys and played flag ball. YA and McElhany (SPL?) used to come out and play with us. I was 13, I believe, when I caught my first YA Tittle pass....
Things are a tad different nowadays....
My sprout time was spent watching the old Lions. Night train Lane, Alex Karras, et al.
I think most people today think Kezar was just a prop in a Dirty Harry flick.
on 4th Ave. across the street from Sutro's Forest. When not going to FB games with the 9ers I was in the forest building forts and playing doctor with the girls on our block!!
My lost and crazed youth, thankfully, began at a tender age.
Many moons ago, a friend went to school at UCSF (Parnassus). I remember Kezar Stadium being right across the street. Much smaller than I thought it would be. What Pro or College team uses the stadium, these days?
Where I lived on 4th Ave was across from the forest and the loading dock at UCSF. On 4th between Parnassus and Kirkham was my home. We used to wander thru the college to the floor where they kept weird things in jars, lungs, brains, two headed babies etc etc.
The rear of the building that looked out on the forest was where we would sit and watch the 3 stories of cages where they kept the mentally ill. This was in the late 1940s and I can still see the people who were caged doing all the things that a caged crazy person could do.
Kezar was not across the street but down the hill (Arguello) across Irving, across Lincoln Way and a short ways into the park. What was across the street from it was Polytechnic High School.
Besides the 49ers who played there for decades, I went to all the East-West Shriner's Games and many high school games. The rock concerts there I attended as well. Here are some notes on the acts that played there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezar_Stadium
And here is the story of Bob Dylan & Neil Young together.
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ob Dylan - guitar, vocals
Neil Young - guitar, piano, vocals
Tim Drummond - guitar
Ben Keith - pedal steel guitar
Rick Danko - bass, vocals
Garth Hudson - keyboards
Levon Helm - drums, vocals
Following the outstanding performances that proceeded it, this closing All-Star set from the 1975 Bay Area S.N.A.C.K. benefit had a lot to live up to. With a lineup that featured Neil Young and Bob Dylan, backed by two members from Neil's group, the Stray Gators, and three from the Band, one would expect this to be an incredible set. In some respects it certainly is, but the lack of rehearsal opportunity and technical problems prevent it from being the extraordinary performance it had the potential to be. This is not to say that there's anything less than enjoyable about the set, but it's more of an example of great musicians getting together for the sheer fun of it than a demonstration of collaborative innovation. The performances are loose and ragged, but definitely not without their charm.
Following Bill Graham's introduction, Neil Young leads the group through "Are You Ready For The Country" to get things warmed up. Levon Helm and Rick Danko take over on the next tune, "Ain't That A Lot Of Love." The band seems eager and playful, and are obviously having a great time together. The next two songs alternate in a similar fashion with "Looking For A Love," a song from Young's Zuma LP, followed by Rick Danko covering "Lovin You Is Sweeter Than Ever."
Dylan then steps up to the mic for a first ever live rendition of the classic Blonde On Blonde track "I Want You." Unfortunately, his microphone feed failed to synch with the line feed, so we only faintly hear his vocal as leakage from other stage mics picking up vocal monitors on stage. Sadly, the malfunction severely mars what was, in all likelihood, an extremely interesting and enjoyable performance. Things pick up for "The Weight," which is also loose, but a song everyone in the ensemble knows relatively well. Although Robbie Robertson's guitar is noticeably absent, Ben Keith does a more than respectable job filling in on pedal steel.
The highlight of the set comes next, when the band plays together on Young's classic ballad "Helpless." On this number the loose circumstances actually work in the song's favor and it sounds quite good with these musicians. As "Helpless" is coming to a close, the group continues playing, and the song flows very naturally into Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - an inspired pairing. It's a unique version lyrically as well, as Dylan improvises lyrics and changes the chorus to "Knockin On The Dragon's Door," a change that's significance is open to speculation.
The set and the show itself close with a rousing chorus of the traditional "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" - an appropriate and poignant selection for such an amazing assemblage of musicians
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As is obvious, Kezar was an integral part of my life from an early age right up to it's destruction. And like my misspent, but highly adventurous youth, it is gone but never forgotten....
Kezar
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