The San Francisco 49ers will not be playing in the Super Bowl, because they lost to the Seattle Seahawks by a disgraceful score of 41 to 6 over the weekend. But of course, 'someone wins, someone loses' is never the whole story in sports. Some fans are now buying into the narrative that the team had no chance because it suffered a suspicious number of devastating injuries over the course of the season (as well as in recent past seasons). Any fan could rattle off a list'quarterback Brock Purdy has dealt with several injuries (coming off a torn UCL a couple of years ago), three key players tore their ACLs this season, and one also tore his MCL. While the team was getting demolished by the Seahawks, tight end Jake Tonges went down with a plantar-fascia injury. To explain this, some fans pointed to the fact that the team's practice field and stadium are near an electrical substation and suggested that the electromagnetic waves emanating from it could be weakening players' bodies, making...
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