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The talk was rightfully about the history. The history of the 49ers’ inability to win a game in Seattle since 2011 and how in order to secure the No. 1 seed in the NFC, that path was necessary.

Joe Staley didn’t give Sunday’s 26-21 win over the Seattle Seahawks the same treatment as last year heading in.

The final game of the NFL season lived up to its billing.

Joe Staley knows Seattle. He knows the 49ers haven’t won there since 2011, and his younger teammates are aware of that history, filled with constant agony, of both the mental and physical sort.

Sunday night is rightly billed to be a classic matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. That billing will remain true despite the litany of injuries on both side, which might just favor the 49ers.

You’ve heard his voice calling Bay Area play-by-play for years, but you might not know what it looks like behind the scenes of those calls.

Tiiick tick tick tick tiiiiiick.

Long gone are the days of smacking down the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football.

But once again, it was the San Francisco offense, a wild Garoppolo throw and Robbie Gould game-winning chip shot that was required to win a game that the 49ers seemed to always be losing.

The 49ers released a statement on Saturday afternoon, following news of the death of C.J. Beathard’s brother, Clayton, 22, who was stabbed outside of a Nashville bar early Saturday morning.