While we're at it, a couple of further points:

1. On the plus side, there's every reason to believe that Randy Moss will not be with the team next season. Then again, that doesn't mean the team won't go out and sign an even bigger a-hole.

2. I have hated the 49ers bizarre fixation and/or connection to the Baltimore Ravens franchise ever since they hired Mike Nolan as the head coach. Up until this year, ironically enough, the Ravens were the complete antithesis of everything the 49ers should stand for. If you think back, would you not agree that one of the reasons the last 8 years or so has been so difficult for long-time fans is that the team went overboard on the idea of becoming a defensively dominant team, even at the expense of the offense? Bringing Trent Dilfer over was basically a seal on the entire mindset, and we tend to forget that it was Dilfer and not Alex Smith, who had his shoulder separated in the third game of the season, who floundered through that awful 0-8 run in 2007, probably the absolute nadir of the recent 49ers history.

For too many years, the 49ers have brought too many former Ravens people over to man their team; perhaps it's only fitting that that obnoxious franchise should inflict the team's first defeat in a Super Bowl. But more importantly, I hope with every fiber in my being that from now on they reject the Baltimore model/ethos/rootstock. Let's get this team back to being a California powerhouse, with Californian ideas and mostly Californian players and coaches.