‘Superbowls excite us, not play-offs’
BRIAN MURPHY: “When the San Francisco Giants made a run in baseball last year I think it gripped the city more than the football team has this year, though in many ways the 49ers, our football team, are more important to the city than the Giants.
“The reason for that? The Giants came to San Francisco from New York in the fifties, where they already had almost a century of history and New Yorkers claimed them, while we were the city that ‘stole’ them. Willie Mays, their greatest player, was always associated with New York more than SF.
