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Posted on 7/2/26 at 6:36 am to GoGators1995
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The 1994 49ers are an underrated Super Bowl champion. Once they gelled around midseason, few teams have played at as high a level.
They brought in a lot of free agents, but I don’t think they overpaid for anyone. Even Deion came relatively cheap for a shot at a Super Bowl title and career year, which he had and led to his big Dallas contract the next year.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 8:59 am to Globetrotter747
The 49ers cheated to get around the salary cap in 1994. They had zero cap room from the roster in 1993 going into 1994. Well to be clear in March of 1994 they had $456 of cap room.
Yet somehow signed sanders, McDonald, Gary Plummer, Chris Doleman, Richard dent, Ken Norton, Rickey Jackson, Bart oats, Ed mccafrey and Toi Cook. Most all of these guys signed for the league minimum. Makes no sense at all. Eddie debartolo was a fraudster. He almost certainly paid these players under the table. They were eventually caught and got off extremely light.
In the late 1990s, the NFL investigated the team for essentially keeping two sets of books, utilizing illegal side deals, and making undisclosed verbal promises to key players to lower their official salary cap hits
Yet somehow signed sanders, McDonald, Gary Plummer, Chris Doleman, Richard dent, Ken Norton, Rickey Jackson, Bart oats, Ed mccafrey and Toi Cook. Most all of these guys signed for the league minimum. Makes no sense at all. Eddie debartolo was a fraudster. He almost certainly paid these players under the table. They were eventually caught and got off extremely light.
In the late 1990s, the NFL investigated the team for essentially keeping two sets of books, utilizing illegal side deals, and making undisclosed verbal promises to key players to lower their official salary cap hits
Posted on 7/2/26 at 9:52 am to Finkle is Einhorn
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He almost certainly paid these players under the table.
Whether he did or didn’t the bottom line is the 49ers won the Super Bowl that year.
Many years ago I coached in a private school league with a lot of imbalance in football programs. Some teams (often rural and entirely white) wanted to play with home grown kids. Other teams (mostly urban with some, even many, black kids) were more transient in nature and brought in a lot of recruits. The result was the urban schools mostly won while the rural schools bitched about recruiting, etc.
I spent time on both sides of it and can tell you this: I would a hell of a lot rather be criticized and hold up a trophy than be everyone’s pal and get my arse kicked.
Whatever the 49ers did it got them the result they wanted. That’s better than a third straight NFCCG loss to the Cowboys.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 12:34 pm to JYD
Are the WRs in 3pt stances?
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:38 pm to JYD
Agree 100%
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