Frank Gore

Do you like Frank Gore? I love Frank Gore, probably my favourite running back of all time. Not for electricity, but for reliability. You know he's gonna show up and deliver. He was the ultimate unstoppable machine. Frank the Tank. Ricky Watters was electric, but Frank Gore was the Truth.

(Jim Harbaugh, as great of a job as he did with the Niners, made one single glaring but undeniable mistake in his time there. Superbowl 47, down a tonne, he brought them all the way back after the power outage - only to not give Frank Gore two, or three, chances to score from the five yard line. Slightly less unforgivable than the Seahawks / Marshawn Lynch mistake two years later, but a monstrously painful mistake nonetheless.)

(And while we're at it, as much as I loved Kaep and what he did to get the team to that point, at the time and still to this day I believe Alex Smith could have completed at least one of those end zone passes to seal the win. Or, someone - either of them - could have just handed off to Frank Gore damnit...)

Anyway, here is a great article by Tom Junod of ESPN on Frank Gore. Good read, even if you don't love Gore - but do love an underdog story.