At one point in history, the San Francisco 49ers had a winning streak like no other: They didn’t lose Super Bowls. Playoff games were fine, and NFC Championships were gut-wrenching but okay. Super Bowls, they didn’t lose.
Then Super Bowl XLVII came along in 2013. While it was already bad that the 49ers had lost that particular game, the fact they lost their first Super Bowl carried with it emotions similar to Undertaker fans seeing him get drilled by Brock Lesnar in Wrestlemania.
It was that strange.
Time has certainly passed since those last two clunky championship games.