Candlestick Chronicles: Rewatching the infamous ‘handshake game’ in Detroit

The San Francisco 49ers got a huge, ugly win over the Lions before Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz’s infamous handshake.

Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz’s postgame handshake and the skirmish that followed overshadowed an important 49ers win at Detroit in Week 6 of the 2011 season. The 4-1 49ers knocked off the 5-0 Lions to notch their fourth win in a row and take a commanding lead a struggling NFC West.

Chris Biderman of the Sacramento Bee and Kyle Madson dove back into that now-infamous game in the latest episode of Candlestick Chronicles. The handshake followed a sloppy contest full of penalties, turnovers, and sputtering offenses. It wasn’t pretty, but San Francisco got a big win.

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