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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Coach fires agent. In any other universe, this is not an important development, not compared with the quest for a backup defensive tackle or Terrell Owens' buscapades to all the great Applebee's of the USBL circuit.
Coach fires agent. If this wasn't the 49ers, if the coach wasn't Steve Mariucci, the agent Don Yee and the timing so sublime, nobody except firer and firee would care a whit.
But no, this is the 49ers, which gives a pointedly Shakespearean feel to Yee's dismissal, or at least that's what top executives, agents and primo gossip hounds were chattering to each other when the news filtered out.
Nobody I talked to had a lesser reaction than this: Wow, surely the tectonic plates are shifting at the Marie P. DeBartolo ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Churning that Steve Mariucci gossip mill.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)