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The following nicknames are given to a unit (defensive, offensive and special teams) or a secondary nickname given to some teams used to describe a style of play or attitude of teams at times in accordance with phrases in popular culture of the time. They are not the official franchise nicknames of the National Football League (NFL). Since the ...
By nickname "Ain'ts*" – New Orleans Saints, NFL; rhyming play on the non-standard English negative ain't [30] "America's Team" – Dallas Cowboys, by sports media [31] "B.I.L.L.S.*" – Buffalo Bills, by detractors, acronyms for "Boy I Love Losing Super Bowls", in reference to the team's failure to win the Super Bowl in four straight tries during the early 1990s [32]
During the 1994 season, many NFL teams wore "throwback uniforms" on occasional games to celebrate the NFL's 75th anniversary (a corresponding diamond-shaped 75th Anniversary patch was also worn by all teams) . The 49ers chose to wear a version of their 1955 uniforms as their throwbacks, with simpler sans-serif block numerals that were outlined ...
San Francisco 49ers wideout's nickname, explained ... South Carolina football hires ex-NFL coordinator Joe DeCamillis as special teams coach. He earned the nickname "Deebo" in his younger years ...
Jesse Grant/Getty Images Brock Purdy was dubbed “Mr. Irrelevant,” but he’s embracing the nickname ahead of his appearance in Super Bowl LVIII. ... the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, 24 ...
Sourdough Sam typically wears a cardinal football jersey, despite the 49ers' current selection of team color being 49ers Red, and his jersey number is 49.He wears a white long-sleeved shirt underneath the jersey and sports light brown gloves as well as a gold handkerchief around his neck.
He was a first-round draft pick by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1970 NFL draft and played there 11 years before going to the San Francisco 49ers in 1981. [1] [2] He played with the 49ers for four more years and won two Super Bowls with them: Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XIX. He wore the number 64 throughout his career, and played in a total of ...
Long Beach State 49ers, former official and oft-used informal nickname for the athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach; Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of Yuba College; 49er (dinghy), an Olympic class of racing dinghy; Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse; TKS 49ers, German basketball team at the southwest border of ...