Editor’s note: The following is not to be taken seriously.
The 49ers were snubbed from the 2020 Pro Bowl. Just hours after San Francisco knocked off the Packers 37-20 in the NFC championship, the team announced that none of its players would be in the Pro Bowl on Jan. 26 in Orlando, Fla.
That’s right. A team that won 13 games in the regular season and cruised through the divisional round and NFC championship with a pair of 17-point wins won’t have any representatives in the NFL’s All-Star game. They were supposed to have four with eight others on the fringes as alternates.
George Kittle? Nice All-Pro season, guy. No Pro Bowl for you.
Richard Sherman? What is this, 2012? You’re not allowed in the Pro Bowl, old man.
Kyle Juszczyk? The best, most versatile fullback in football? STAY HOME. FULLBACKS DON’T MATTER ANYMORE.
Nick Bosa? Cool first year, rook. Try again when you’re older.
The list of worthy 49ers goes on, but none of it matters. They’re not allowed in the Pro Bowl. The only question left is, ‘why?’
The simple answer is that the NFL is scared the 49ers will all go to Orlando, be better than every player there, and strike so much fear into their opponents that it essentially hands them next year’s Lombardi Trophy. Bye bye competitive balance.
Perhaps the league is just upset they didn’t get the rematch of Super Bowl I between the Packers and Chiefs in their 100th anniversary season and this is their punishment for the 49ers.
Forgetting about 49ers fans in this situation is a catastrophic decision by the NFL. How do they just forget one of the league’s premier teams and its fan base? These 49ers fans, or ‘Faithful’ as they’re commonly known, deserve to see their favorite players in the Pro Bowl.
Who doesn’t dream of seeing their favorite player in whatever jersey Nike slaps together, wearing their team’s helmet in the Orlando sunshine in late January? Nobody. Not a single person does not dream of that day.
It is truly a tragedy that the 49ers players and their loyal fans won’t get to experience four quarters of half-hearted football that culminates in whoever scores the last touchdown, or the most touchdowns, winning a car.
No 49er will get to duplicate some of the famed Pro Bowl highlights like … uh … there was the one where Phil Dawson did the weird onside kick, among many, many others that everyone knows and loves.
49ers fans will instead have to settle for watching their team in Super Bowl LIV competing for their sixth Lombardi Trophy. It’s an okay consolation, but when the ultimate prize was a Pro Bowl, it doesn’t quite fill the void.
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