The San Francisco 49ers just fired yet another head coach — the fourth in as many seasons — and had dismissed a controversial general manager, who was largely responsible for the demise of the franchise. All this after a lowly 2-14 finish in what proved to be an abysmal year.
Sounds like 2016, doesn’t it. But this is exactly what happened at the end of the 1978 NFL season.
History has a funny way of repeating itself, and we can look back to this parallel between the 1979 49ers and a Niners team entering 2017 with an uncertain future.