The San Francisco 49ers have done a complete 180 from their recent glory under the reign of Jim Harbaugh. From three straight NFC Championship Game appearances to an eight-game losing streak, it does not get much worse than this.
Austin Murphy of SI.com has encapsulated this collapse in a new poem, inspired by Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go. (You know, the one poem at every high school graduation across the country.)
The opening stanza immediately expresses the dire straights of the current 49ers contingent as Murphy refers to San Francisco as “Cleveland Browns West.