Super Bowl super fans share their stories

I have many stories about being a die-hard, rabid, often emotional, and very loud fan of the San Francisco 49ers. I probably love my team too much. Their wins and their losses probably bring too much joy and pain to me. I probably experience more stress watching the 49ers play than any feelings of enjoyment. There is no "probably" about it; these things are all 100 percent true.

Such is the way of loving something with all your heart.

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I have many stories about being a die-hard, rabid, often emotional, and very loud fan of the San Francisco 49ers. I probably love my team too much. Their wins and their losses probably bring too much joy and pain to me. I probably experience more stress watching the 49ers play than any feelings of enjoyment. There is no "probably" about it; these things are all 100 percent true.

Such is the way of loving something with all your heart.

When I was a kid, I grew up with the 49ers and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. From my earliest memories, Joe Montana, Steve Young, and Jerry Rice, along with the rest of the 49ers team, were winning Super Bowls, and if they weren't in the Super Bowl, they were in the NFC Championship game, losing nail-bitters and heart-breakers to the Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, and the Washington Redskins. Losing was not something that the 49ers did often when I was a kid.

— Daniel O’Rourke less