The NFL's 2008 Wild Card Wknd has arrived at the same time as this rainstorm front......

Offside! Penalty -- three months. Any talk of the Niners moving from San Francisco down to Santa Clara is before the snap (did we get our convoluted football metaphor right? SFist Jon's out on vacation this week so we can't check), now that the City of Santa Clara's experienced yet more delays in completing the required feasibility study about how they're going to raise their $160 million share for the stadium. The study was supposed......

--...and as promised, here's the back of the Ed Jew calendar, from reader Jake. Thanks, Jake! Irony alert! Can you guys see the "please contact me if you have problems or if issues concern you" tagline? --Fog City has heard rumors that Peskin might make Daly give up his position as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. Meanwhile, the Sentinel reports that Daly misread the press release that Newsom's people sent out, and......

The NFL's 2007 Free Agency period is on! The Niners went on a wild buying spree. What've the Raiders got in their cart? Let's see......

-A woman's car breaking down caused a huge chain of events leading to her death and three hours worth of traffic on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. -Where oh where did the snow go? ...

On Fark.com they have this thing where if anyone in the House or Senate introduces a silly little bill, the person who writes the headline will always say "with nothing else going on Senator Blah Blah Blah introduced a bill to blah blah blah." Chuckles all around. So what does this have to do with anything? Well, with all the other stuff going on, you know, like the war, Senator Dianne Feinstein yesterday introduced legislation into the Senate giving the NFL a limited anti-trust exemption and so making it so that no team could move without first getting permission from the NFL first. And if you were to guess that this was all in an attempt to keep you know who from moving to you know where, you would be correct. ...

-The Governator wants to bring bipartisanship back. -He's also out of the hospital. -Fog City Journal has the latest rumors on who'll run against Gavin. We have no idea what Matty G's quote means either. -Your total # of deaths homicides in SF this year? 85. -If a bloodhound goes missing, who do they send out to look for it? -The NFL gives the Niners thumbs up for their move to Santa Clara. -When the......

-The Warriors111 Spurs 102: This is the second big-name team the Warriors have beaten up at home in a week (they beat the Jazz earlier) and they got some R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Take Care TCB, from Spurs coach Greg Popovich. Bruce Jenkins says it's all about Nellie....

Before we get to the depressing stuff, let's relate some good news, or at least the cool news. And that is the NFL has finally acquiesced and will let Mike Nolan wear a suit for Sunday's game. Earlier, Nolan talked about wearing a suit to honor his father, former 49ers coach Dick Nolan, and because it's classy. The NFL balked because they couldn't license it and make money off of it so Nolan wore the usual NFL garb. Now the NFL is letting him suit up, provided that Reebok designed it and have the Reebok logo predominately displayed and will soon-to-be available at finer men's stores everywhere. ...

It was just announced that Aaron Brooks will be out for the next two-to-four weeks with a banged up pectoral muscle. This means your starting QB for the next few weeks will be Andrew Walter. Brooks strained the muscle while trying to recover his second straight fumbled snap in yesterday's game. We repeat, he strained a muscle while trying to recover HIS SECOND STRAIGHT FUMBLED SNAP OF THE GAME. ...

Madden's in the Hall Of Fame. The Raiders have committed their first false start penalties. The NFL's 2006 Preseason is underway. Let's move with all due speed to present the members of your San Francisco 49ers' 2006 Draft class....

Better start walking down Chestnut with your arms defensively crossed, folks -- the SFPD is hot in pursuit of a serial groper in a light-colored SUV. Handsie stopped four women on the street between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. to ask for directions and then started up with the touching. All four women managed to get free. Handsie is a white male, about 160 pounds, and was wearing a white shirt, a blue shirt, a plaid shirt, and a tan jacket. That's a lotta layering there, pal. And speaking of handsies, two Niners season tickets holders, along with the ACLU, have sued the NFL. No, not for the Niners sucking, but because they're tired of being patted down before going into the stadium. The NFL says they put a league-wide requirement for patdowns before games post-9/11. The ACLU previously sued in Tampa Bay and got an injunction on patdowns before Buccaneer games for the rest of this season. ... and let's get into the holiday spirit! A good samaritan in Concord who hastily left his car running on the side of the road as he dashed to help a family trapped in a flipped-over SUV was busy trying to free three children from their seat belts as he saw someone else dash into his truck and drive it away. Everyone's fine, but the samaritan's out a 1989 white Chevy truck with wood paneling on the side, license plate number 3U55070. ...

A couple of months ago, Randy Moss admitted to Bryant Gumbel on HBO's "Real Sports" (a great, underrated show, by the way) that he sometimes, every once in awhile, liked to smoke a little reefer. He didn't say he still does, or he does during the season, or even that he does gravity bongs with Snoop Dog and Donald Rumsfield at after-game parites. He just said that he "likes to have fun." Granted, in these......

We have no idea if Mike Nolan will be a good coach or even if he can win with the 49ers, but he's already gotten on SFist's good side. Last week he petitioned the NFL to be allowed to class up the joint and wear a suit on the sidelines. The NFL, otherwise known as the No Fun League, refused to let him. Nolan wanted to wear a suit to honor his father who was coach of the Niners in the late 60's and early 70's and because he wanted a look that said professional and responsible. We would also like to think that Nolan did it for obvious reason- it's old school. Way old school. Talk about your retro jersey. Would Vince Lombardi be Vince Lombardi if he wore a frumpy sweatshirt or dressed like a frat boy just hitting the links. Would Don Shula have become Don Shula? Would Tom Landry be Tom Landry without the hat? We think not. The NFL, however, said no because they just can't allow one person to be on the field who can't be used as a billboard to sell official NFL merchandise. Of course, we might feel differently about this if it wasn't for the fact that every NFL franchise is apparently trying to out-ugly each other in coming out with their new duds. And yes, SFist's beloved sport, baseball, makes their middle-aged paunchy coaches wear uniforms, but baseball is the only sport in which the manager actually enters the action to bring in a new pitcher. Or, in Felipe Alou's case, several pitchers. Hell, Felipe still looks like better in a uniform than SFist could ever hope too. ...

Madden's in the Hall Of Fame. The Raiders have committed their first false start penalties. The NFL's 2006 Preseason is underway. Let's move with all due speed to present the members of your San Francisco 49ers' 2006 Draft class. ...