Golden Nuggets: Buffalo looms

49ers’ Christian McCaffrey, fighting to regain form, wouldn’t mind another blizzard (paywall)

“When I was 7, we had a ‘Super Bowl’ at the lower field at Regis Jesuit High School,” McCaffrey said. “It was a blizzard. And we beat Cherry Creek — the Cherry Creek Bruins — in double overtime on a last-second play.”

McCaffrey was just getting warmed up. Playing linebacker for the Parker Hawks — “Mike” linebacker, McCaffrey said — he secured the title by tipping a trick-play pass, a deflection that, in his memory, kicked off a wild celebration.

“It felt like you were playing in front of 70,000 — there were probably 12 people there,” McCaffrey said, laughing. “All the parents stormed the field. I…