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Washington radio broadcasters rain on 49ers Slip ‘N Slide victory celebration

By now you have likely been made aware of the hard feelings 49ers players engendered with their Slip-‘N-Slidefest following Sunday’s 9-0 victory over the NFL’s Washington franchisee.

In time, it says here, the team’s launderers will forgive them.

Not so the Washington radio crew. As the 49ers expressed sheer ebullience which comes when you go to 6-0 by skunking an outgunned opponent, the tsk, tsk, tsk-ing could be heard in Monticello.

“The Niners go sliding as though they were soccer players in the left corner of the field,” says play-by-play man Larry Michael. “The clock hits zeroes and the Niners are all sliding over the field.