LondonNiner
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UK-based fan of the Niners - I grew up on the legendary teams of the 1980s. I love the San Francisco 49ers somewhere between my wife and children, and breathing.
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Matt Maiocco just tweeted a link to this. Words fail me. Really. You must listen. But get ready to cringe ...
Feedback welcome on Niners Nation Trivia Challenge
by LondonNiner on Jul 26, 2011 5:23 PM EDT
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Hello everyone,
Most people will hopefully know that we've run quizzes (Trivia Challenges) on four of the last five Wednesdays (and tried to do so unsuccessfully on the other Wednesday!)
Firstly, we ran a general quiz on 49ers history.
Then we did one on the Niners in the 2000s.
Then one on the Niners in the 1990s.
Most recently, we ran a quiz on the 49ers in the 1980s (after one aborted attempt where nobody showed up!).
Now I'm not sure where to take this weekly feature next - so keen to get your views.
UPDATED WITH FINAL SCORES: Niners Nation Trivia Challenge 7.20.11. 1980s edition
by LondonNiner on Jul 20, 2011 3:25 PM EDT
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Fooch's Note: We're back for another week of LondonNiner's trivia contest, this time focusing on the 80s. Join in.
LondonNiner's note: See final comment in thread for result of the quiz. Congratulations to quiz rookie D-9er for claiming the title this week.
Hello -
If enough people want to play along live, I'll run a quiz based on the Niners in the 1980s at 1pm Pacific (that's in three-and-a-bit hours, clock fans). Please do let me know if you want to play as last week nobody showed up.
If you don't know what I am talking about, we've run these quizzes for the last few Wednesday lunchtimes. Here was the first one, here was the second, and here was the third.
Live - Niners Nation Trivia Challenge, Wednesday 13 July, 1980s edition
by LondonNiner on Jul 13, 2011 3:31 PM EDT
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Good day men,
It's Wednesday, it's almost 1pm on the west coast, and you know what Wednesday at 1pm means - Niners Nation Trivia Challenge.
The live quiz will happen here, in this thread. Let me know by posting in the comments if you are here and wanting to take part. More details after the jump.
Heads up for this week's Niners Nation Trivia Challenge
by LondonNiner on Jul 12, 2011 2:02 PM EDT
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Fooch's Note: Just a reminder about this Wednesday's trivia contest.
Hello all -
I'm rushing so I won't do fancy hyperlinks and stuff (God, I sound like James Brady) but a heads-up that this week's Niners Nation Trivia Challenge will happen at 1pm Pacific on Wednesday.
LIVE - Niners Nation Trivia Challenge, Wednesday 6 July, 1990s edition
by LondonNiner on Jul 6, 2011 3:43 PM EDT
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Tre's note: Per Fuhrer Fooch's request, this is going to the front-page for maximum participation!
Hello team!
It's Wednesday, it's almost 1pm (Pacific), which means it's almost 9pm (olde world), which means our weekly Wednesday Niners Nation Trivia Challenge is LIVE!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out last week's quiz and the week before that which was the first one we'd ever done. Today is the third edition, and all of the questions which will be about the San Francisco 49ers between 1990 and 1999.
Advance notice - Niners Nation Trivia Challenge, Wednesday 6 July
by LondonNiner on Jul 4, 2011 1:23 PM EDT
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Fooch's Note: LondonNiner has run this contest the last two weeks and it's been great fun. While we'd love to see more folks join in the contest, at the very least swing by to see it in action as contestants vie to assert their 49ers trivia dominance.
Hi guys -
This is a heads-up that on Wednesday we will be running the third installment of our weekly LIVE Niners Nation Trivia Challenge.
The quiz will start at 1pm Pacific this Wednesday, 6 July. The theme for this week will be the 49ers in the 1990s.
Sign up after the jump so that I have some idea of numbers and can prepare the correct number of questions.
Live - Niners Nation Trivia Challenge, Millennium Edition [June 29]
by LondonNiner on Jun 29, 2011 1:45 PM EDT
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UPDATE - RESULTS. I COUNTED UP THE RESULTS OF THIS QUIZ AND THE WINNER IS ... TEEKAY.
Teekay - 9 (4 correct answers, 5 steals including two half-point steals)
Brianmc27 - 8 (5 correct answers, 1 steal, 1 Fastest Finger First)
Manraj7 - 4.5 (2.5 correct answers, 2 steals); Mikeinsp - 4.5 (2.5 correct answers and 2 steals including 1 steal on his own question - kind of like a rebound!)
Haggardninja - 4 (2 correct answers and 2 steals)
Fooch - 3 (1 correct answer, 1 steal, 1 Fastest Finger First)
J2daZ - 1 correct answer (out of 1 - 100% completetion rate!); Reedkrase - 1 correct Fastest Finger First (100% also); McWagner - 1 correct fastest finger first (100%); Drew - 1 complete correct answer (out of 1 - 100% completion also!)
* the question about who was the tallest player on the current roster (correct answer Alex Boone at 6ft 7in) was incorrectly answered by teekay and both mikeinsp and brianmc27 got the right answer on a steal, and we had an argument over who was first, so I gave a point to both of them for that one … consider that argument settled!)
Here follows the quiz as it happens - next one will be next Wednesday (6 July)
The day is here, men. This bad boy will be LIVE at 1pm Pacific.
It's the second Niners Nation Trivia Challenge and this time, we're talking 2000s.
Last week we played our inaugral Trivia Challenge and, being an experimental first attempt, we tried a bit of everything with questions on a whole range of Niners-related subjects and from a whole range of eras.
Some folks complained that the questions went back too far, and whilst some of our readers are older and know a heck of a lot about the golden days (step forward last weeks' winner ToddCommish and the equally long-toothed Beetle), I acknowledge that some readers are younger and that's why this week's quiz is going to feature 21st century questions only.
So if you want to take part in a live quiz with questions related to the last 11 years of San Francisco 49ers history, stop by here at 1pm Pacific and declare your interest.
Rules and regulations after the jump.
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NinersNation Trivia Challenge, millennium edition
by LondonNiner on Jun 27, 2011 10:47 AM EDT
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Hello,
Last Wednesday we had a little fun by playing a live quiz on Niners Nation, with questions about 49ers trivia.
I want to do it again this Wednesday. 9pm my time in the UK - that's 1pm on Wednesday Pacific time and this time the quiz is going to be a millennium edition. In other words, questions only about the 49ers 2000 to 2011. That's for all you kids out there who complained last time about there being too many questions from the 50s and 60s.
If you want to join in with a fun thread and play along live, you need to join me after the jump to find out the details and to declare your interest by leaving your name in the comments. Your NinersNation name, that is, not your real name. I'm not the Inland Revenue.
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Live - Niners Nation Ironman Trivia Challenge
by LondonNiner on Jun 22, 2011 4:03 PM EDT
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Hello everyone -
I'm timing this Fan Post to be up and live for when you crazy west coast types wake up. If you're just leaving for work or you've just reached your desk, here's a reminder that we'll be running a live trivia quiz at 1pm Pacific time today (Wednesday). Everyone is welcome - I'll tell you what you need to do after the jump.
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Niners Nation Ironman Trivia Challenge
by LondonNiner on Jun 17, 2011 5:32 PM EDT
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UPDATE: THREAD NOW CONTAINS DETAILS OF PRIZE FOR THE WINNER (SEE MY REPLY TO MCWAGNER) AND AN APPEAL FOR MORE FOLKS TO TAKE PART.
UPDATE 2.0: FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THIS THREAD NOW AND HEAD OVER TO THE LIVE THREAD WHERE THE QUIZ WILL ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE, TODAY AT 1PM PACIFIC.
Yo, NinersNation brethren.
I have a little idea for a feature I'd like to run past you. It started with a tweet, as Hot Chocolate almost sang, and it could end up becoming the thing that gets you through that fallow period in the middle of your week and gets you over the hump into the downhill, back-end half of the week.
Join me after the jump to find out what on earth the crazy Britisher is talking about.
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Troy Smith leadership
Enjoyed this video - usual Singletary BS but really enjoyed Smith's demonstration of leading a locker room.
This video also notable for VD trying to resist the temptation to take his trousers off because he knows the camera is on him.
Andy Lee on Facebook!
Turns out you can 'Like' NinersNation legend Andy Lee on Facebook! Still seems relatively undiscovered - only 400 or so people have 'liked' at this point. Now including me!
FAO UK fans of the 49ers
If you are in the UK you will be pleased to note that NFL UK announced tonight that Channel 4, the station which first brought the sport to the UK in the early 1980s and made it more popular than our own football for a time, will have the NFL back this season for the first time in 12 years.
C4 will show the late Sunday night games, which means the 49ers at Philadelphia will be free-to-air in the UK. I make it that this is the first time the Niners have been shown live on free-to-air in the UK since the Cardinals MNF game in the 2008 season.
Best goal celebration ever
I know it's the wrong football - and I don't mention soccer often - but you HAVE to watch this celebration.
Tonight I met Mike Singletary
by LondonNiner on Jul 19, 2010 5:41 PM EDT
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Had a chat with Coach Singletary tonight. He was doing media interviews all day in London today to promote the 3 October game at Wembley against the Broncos, and I sat in on one of them, which he was doing with my organisation, and before the interview we spoke for 15 minutes or so.
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Vernon Davis meets British press
Vernon Davis is in London and is currently on his media tour. Mike Singletary doing same thing on Monday of next week. All to promote the game at Wembley on 31 Oct (although they don't really need to promote as they could have sold it out twice over ...)
Roger Craig needs to pee
A few times on this site I've been asked about the explosion in popularity of the NFL in the UK in the 1980s. This article on NFL UK sums it up nicely - it also includes an anecdote about Roger Craig needing to pee.
Niners feature on NFL UK site
Doesn't tell you an awful lot you didn't already know, but worth a look maybe.
Hugely off topic but ...
by LondonNiner on Feb 24, 2010 10:41 PM EST
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I am currently in Vancouver, working on the Winter Olympics for my employer, and one of my pals here is taking a little bit of time off between the Olympics and the Paralympics, by nipping down to San Francisco for a short vacation with his wife.
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