NFC Championship Loss Shouldn’t Define 49ers’ Tumultuous Season

It was Super Bowl or bust for the San Francisco 49ers this season—or was it?

Well, based on last year's result, it'd be easy to assume Jim Harbaugh's squadron would deem anything less than hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the conclusion of the 2013 campaign a failure, but a few unfortunate and unforeseen developments altered San Francisco's path to the promised land.