Despite the Bay Area’s latest storm forecasted to hit during 49ers-Seahawks, weather had little impact on NFC Wild Card showdown.
SANTA CLARA — Who would be better prepared to deal with a rain-soaked football field than a groundskeeper from Seattle, right?
However, despite a week of forecasts calling for the rain to continue through kickoff Saturday, those precautions proved to be unnecessary. It poured before the game and drenched the field soon after it ended, but for a four-hour window Saturday afternoon, it stayed mostly dry over Santa Clara. Tailgating fans huddled under canopies before kickoff, and the scheduled flyover was canceled. But the skies, which have dumped more than a foot of rain on Santa Clara since Christmas, dried up before halftime, and even briefly shined blue.
Despite the 49ers’ penchant for running the ball, and the preference to keep it on the ground in wet weather, rookie Brock Purdy attempted his third-most passes since becoming the starting quarterback. “I didn’t really notice it,” Greenlaw said, echoing the sentiment from a jubilant 49ers locker room. “It would rain and stop, but honestly I didn’t even think about it. I just played.”
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