SFist 49ers Column

For nine years, I wrote a first-person 49ers column for SFist that was essentially Sex and the City meets football: game analysis, personal essays, pop culture, San Francisco, and a frankly questionable level of fandom. The editor dubbed it “Daisy Does the Niners,” and the cheeky name stuck, becoming part of what made the column memorable. Years later, I'd still meet people around San Francisco who would light up when they realized I was that Daisy from the 49ers column.

Featured Articles:

• SF Continues to Suck; Seattle Wins 29-13 — November 2015
  I used my obsession with a CW vampire drama as a jumping-off point for diagnosing why I was still watching a terrible 49ers team—a good example of the personal, pop-culture-driven approach that defined the column.

• Victory in Green Bay — September 2012
  I went to Green Bay expecting hostile territory and came home wondering if Packers fans might actually be the nicest people on earth. A first-person account of the 49ers' season-opening win at Lambeau, with football analysis, travel, fandom, beer, cheese curds, and one very memorable interaction with a Packers fan.

• We’re in the Super Bowl, You Guys! — February 2020
  A very anxious pre-game analysis of the 49ers' return to the Super Bowl, covering the team's defense, running and passing games, the dangers posed by Patrick Mahomes, and, how I did not appreciate the distraction that was Jimmy Garoppolo's very handsome face.

• Super Bowl LIV and the Agony of Defeat — February 2020
  A post-game autopsy of the 49ers' devastating Super Bowl loss, from blowing a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter to the particular misery of watching a championship slip away after a season that had felt almost too good to be true. (A note on 2020: At the time, I was certain the 49ers losing the Super Bowl would be the worst thing that happened that year. Reader, it was not.)

SF Continues to Suck; Seattle Wins — November 2015

Victory in Green Bay — September 2012

We’re in the Super Bowl! — February 2020

The Agony of Defeat — February 2020