49ers NFC Champs, to Meet Chiefs in Super Bowl

“Brock Purdy threw for 267 yards and a touchdown, and the San Francisco 49ers rallied from 17 points down at halftime to beat the Detroit Lions 34-31 on Sunday and reach the Super Bowl.

The 49ers (14-5) scored 17 points in an eight-minute span of the third quarter to tie the NFC championship game and then pulled away in the fourth quarter to earn a rematch against Kansas City after losing to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl four years ago.

San Francisco mounted the fourth comeback ever from 17 points down or more in a conference title game thanks to some big plays by Purdy and bad mistakes from the Lions (14-6), including two failed fourth downs in field-goal range. Detroit fell short of reaching the first Super Bowl in franchise history.

After being questioned about whether he could lead a comeback, Purdy has now done it twice in as many weeks. He engineered a game-winning drive in the fourth quarter to beat Green Bay last week and then had an even bigger comeback against the Lions….”







https://www.newsmax.com/us/49ers-lions-score-nfc-championship/2024/01/28/id/1151314/












what an awesome comeback. The 49ers were terrible in the first half and really turned things around. Brock Purdy led an amazing comeback.

 

Mr. Irrelevant is going to the superbowl!

 

Go Niners.....I'm not crazy about KC this time round.


Detroit pi$$Ed away a couple 4th down short field goal chances that burned them in the end.

 

I don't watch football, not interested--but happened to catch that 49ers game and I stuck through it.. Pretty exciting comeback.

 

46 and 48 yard attempts they would have been.

 

Not entirely out of the question.....

 

True. I’d have probably tried those but they were not short as another writer stated here.