The San Francisco 49ers, who are one win away from their sixth Super Bowl appearance, will play in the team's first NFC Championship game since 1998 at 3 p.m. Sunday.
"We have more than enough time to get ready for this team. There's going to be a need for a laser-like focus here. We really need to focus on our task here," 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh said.
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Harbaugh's team has to defend its home field one more time and said the capacity crowd at Candlestick made a difference.
"Our fans turned that stadium into a fortress. That's as good as it's going to get," he said. "We got 70,000 in a city behind us. It felt good. It felt like an advantage."
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With the Super Bowl only one game away, Niners fever is going around, and it's contagious.
Lefty O'Doul's Restaurant and Lounge, which had run out of "booze" after Saturday's game, had its supply replenished Monday in preparation for the Niners' playoff game Sunday, a restaurant spokesman said.
Lefty O'Doul's was the "World Series Headquarters" in the 2010 season when the San Francisco Giants made its run to its first championship since moving west and Houskeeper said, not believing in a jinx, that he and O'Doul's are already making Super Bowl plans.
"We're going all the way," Houskeeper said. "We're absolutely convinced we're going to the Super Bowl."
Houskeeper expects an "invasion of New Yorkers" and said many true Niners fans will walk around the corner to the Gold Dust Lounge for the game.
By Bay City News Service.
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