Friday Hemingway Mark Purdy spent eight years at the Cincinnati Enquirer as a sports reporter and columnist. He was subsequently seduced to California by the San Jose Mercury News and columnized about Bay Area sports for 33 years before retiring in 2017. He remains mystified about why mail order cans of Skyline Chili cost so much more than mail order cans of Gold Star Chili. His coffee table illustrated history book about the San Francisco 49ers, aided and abetted by Cincinnati Enquirer librarian Jeff Seuss, will be published by Reedy Press this summer.
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Paul Brown? Bill Walsh? Huh? Why should any of the bajillion gazillion people who watch the Super Bowl spend any time before kickoff thinking about those two coaches, both long gone from the planet?
Because of tree branches in the desert. That's why.
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