MIAMI — Raheem Mostert wanted to get off the field as fast as he could. “Once that confetti hits,” he said, “I am going to be really, really messed up.”
Mostert beat the confetti, but there were still clusters of red and yellow paper that players tracked into the Niners locker room after him, a visible reminder of how close this team was to winning the Super Bowl. The confetti is basically the same color scheme as the Niners’, so it wasn’t hard to imagine an alternative reality where they hadn’t given up a 20-10 lead in the fourth quarter.