The games are the best and the worst of it, all in the same dang breath. The guy calling offensive plays for the last San Francisco 49ers team to win a Super Bowl, 25 Januarys ago, is a passenger now, same as the rest of us.
Well, kind of. A passenger with benefits.
“I watch all his practices (remotely), I watch all his games, so I have a feeling, going into the game, what the game plan is,” Mike Shanahan, the former Broncos coach and San Francisco offensive coordinator, says of his son, Kyle, whose Niners host Green Bay late Sunday afternoon in the NFC championship game.