INEFFECTUAL FIRST HALF, RE-SURGE AFTER OUTAGE, LACK OF LATE CALL, MAKE 49ers CLOSE BUT NOT.............

The San Francisco 49-ers National Football Conference champions lost Super Bowl 47 yesterday, to the Baltimore Ravens, by the margin of a field goal, going down 34-31; and losing their first Super Bowl after 5 victories dating back to 1982.  Quaterback Colin Kaepernick and his San Francisco teammmates were highly ineffectual in the first half of the game, able to score only 2 fields and 6 points, against a strident Baltimore team led by their Quarterback Joe Flacco, who scored 3 touchdowns, and 21 points, to be in a fifteen point deficit at halftime for the 49-ers.  Then the Ravens started the second half by returning a San Francisco's kick-off punt a Super Bowl record setting, 108 yards for a fourth touchdown, and a 28-6 lead.  A 34 minute power outage in the New Orleans Superdome minutes later, stalled playing; and when it resumed Kaepernick and the Niners were ready to respond with their own twenty three points of additional scoring, to a single additional field goal for the Ravens, to be behind 31-29.  Their attempt at a two point conversion after scoring their third second half touchdown failed, leaving San Francisco trailing by two points.  The Ravens subsequently scored another field goal to stretch their lead to 34-29.  The 49ers with just minutes left in the game, tried from 1st and Goal to score another touchdown, and came up short on a fourth down attempt due to an obvious holding call that on their receiver that the referees did not make.  However, moments later with the game clock ticking down the seconds remaining, the Niners scored a safety against the Ravens to be trailing with just four seconds left on the clock, 34-31.  Receiving the Raven's punt, time expired on the 48-ers,, and Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens, led by Head Coach John Harbaugh; defeated Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49-ers, led by Harbaugh brother Jim, by the final score of 34-31.  Tough Luck Niners.  More success next year and in your next Super Bowl, returning the Vince Lombardi Trophy that will be residing in Baltimore, this year; back to the City by the Bay in Northern California, San Francisco.............Fr.  Troy