How I Became a 49ers Fan: Thanks Dad

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Published: May 11, 2009

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... they were winning and I didn’t know much about sports at the time. It was Jan. 1995 and the 49ers had just won their fifth Super Bowl—the first team to achieve such a feat.

In 1995, I was a nine-year-old boy that was just getting into sports. I had just picked up playing basketball with my friends in elementary school and it seemed that a lot of my friends enjoyed active play during recess.

But my biggest influence on sports may be my father. My father immigrated to the Bay Area from Hong Kong in 1981 and was very fortunate to have seen the 49ers win their first Super Bowl that year. And by trying to understand America’s sport, my father would continue to follow the 49ers. And it was very helpful for my father to see the 49ers win three more titles that decade. He would become a supporter of every member of those championship teams.

Then head coach George Seifert couldn’t compare to what Bill Walsh had established in San ...

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