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Very few NFL teams can match the history of the San Francisco 49ers, who is the first franchise to claim five Super Bowl wins. They’re now one win away from joining the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots as six-time champions.
By reaching this year’s Super Bowl, the 49ers have matched the Steelers and Cowboys for the second-most Super Bowl appearances by a franchise. By advancing to the Super Bowl this season, the 49ers have now appeared in one Super Bowl in four of the previous five decades.
You could argue that this year’s 49ers team has been the NFL’s best since Week 1, when they dismantled the Steelers in Pittsburgh. Since then, Kyle Shanahan’s team has lost just three games and will enter the Super Bowl having come from behind to beat the Packers and Lions in consecutive playoff games.
Where do the 2023 49ers rank among the franchise’s best teams? It’s hard to fully know the answer to that until the Super Bowl is played. But given what we already know about this team, we can already say that it is better than two of the franchise’s other Super Bowl participants.
Without further ado, let’s see where the 2023 Niners stack up with the franchise’s other Super Bowl teams ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.
8. 2012 49ers
I hated putting this team last, mostly because of its great defense and the fact that the offense was led by future Hall of Fame running back Frank Gore. Add in the fact that they beat two very two teams in Green Bay and Atlanta in the postseason has made this decision tougher to stomach.
Looking back at the 49ers’ Super Bowl loss to Baltimore, though, made the decision to put this team at No. 8 a little easier to digest. Defensively, the 49ers struggled in the red zone all year and continued to do so in the Super Bowl. And when they needed one play at the end of the game, the 49ers’ offense came up short.
Despite the finish, though,…
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Author : Bryan DeArdo
Publish date : 2024-02-05 21:53:52
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