Four trips, four losses, one NFC Championship, and a quarter century of my life.

The last time the 49ers won a regular-season game in Atlanta, I was 20 years old and fresh off losing on Jeopardy!. Jeff Garcia hit Terrell Owens in overtime on October 14, 2001. Four trips since. Four losses.

On Sunday, a 6-0 team gets one first half to end it: in Kyle Shanahan's 1 PM ET road games, the 49ers are 12-1 when leading at halftime and 0-5 when trailing. Not one comeback in nine years.

Read the column: https://essential49ers.com/takes/2026-10-21-its-been-25-years.html

— Anthony Essential49ers