For the San Francisco 49ers, it’s finally a reason to feel good after a season beset in bad luck and injury.
For second-year quarterback Nick Mullens, it’s a fairy tale that has a chance to define his very career.
It’s a story told so often in Hollywood that, if this were a movie, you’d think it clichéd to the extreme.
The team’s stud quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, falls victim to a horrible injury, the backup quarterback, C.J. Beathard, doesn’t perform and then he himself is injured.