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>> i was about 7 or 8 years old in school and my friends had a small key ring on his bag. i asked what was this that he had. he said his key ring came with some bubble gum. when my mom picked me up, i got a pact of bubble gum and when i opened it up, inside was a rez jersey and it said sf 49ers. that's how it started from there. a beautiful relationship was born. >> i became a 49ers fan because my friends had a miami dolphins

hat and the 49ers were playing the dolphins in the super bowl that year. i became a 49ers fan because i wanted to be the rifle of my friends. >> basically i read the book and it's about an english family in a soccer match and young boys growing up whose uncle lived in san francisco and his uncle takes him out and introduce him to the games and he is hooked. his family is dead against it. he loves the game and he becomes a 49ers fan again. he's such an inspiration to me that the 49ers became my team. >> the first time we watched american football, it was the mid 80s and the dolphins. i was only about 9 or 10 years

old and we had a sleep over and we watched the super bowl and my friends had a dolphins hat and pajamas on and the game started. the dolphins were there and they came in ready to go. i said that's my thing. >> whether it was a book or a hat or bubble gum. young boys from the united ding com like those from america fell in love with the team at a young age. they wanted to see more. >> our family only had one game a week on the tv. the 49ers, the raiders, the red skips or the dolphins. they were the big teams back in the day. they followed the sport and they know jerry rice. he was a household name. the kind of relationship at a

young age. they were involved until tuesday and the score of sunday night's game. when we had a television, we had a service which is on the television on a monday morning. i was sitting there waiting for the page to refresh. when the 49ers were on television on a sunday night, that would mean i would go to bed. and often i sat at home watching 49ers with jerry rice. i'm a real football geek. >> with the internet and in the beginning, in the network, they got a few games and mainly playoffs. >> the games are normally finishing around midnight.

that means they got work the next day and you have to time the day quite well. i made sure i prepared and i'm free every saturday and sunday throughout january. my girlfriend knows she is not going to see me on a sunday night. >> after catching up on sleep, they have to catch up on understandings of the games that the americans had been playing since the mid-1800s. >> we are a little bit behind the americans if you like. they can play from the time they are very, very small over here. they start playing at 16 years old. a lot of people get into the sport. >> the nfl started off and to support it, it was very hard to

have the fans. huh to upon research and doing your own research and grew your love of the game. you felt close to the 49ers. that was your world. you can disappear into it and you can follow and look towards the sunday. >> the knowledge he is getting bigger and bigger and the coverage you get. getting bigger and the knowledge is getting a lot stronger. >> i think i could talk football with anybody in the united states and you wouldn't know i was not part of it. >>. >> there is a magzive passion in the uk excited to get things over here. americans are impressed with what you have got. it's not just about that. we have got the voice and another five as well. you get pretty much every one and you have to spread it out.

>> we are as passion ead as american fans like getting up in the middle of the night at 2:00 or 5:00 a.m. you live and breathe. i think we are doing that in the uk. >> do you have your own incredible story to tell or do you know someone? let us know about it. e-mail the studios.

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>> the popularity of the nfl is undeniable. the spectacle is rivalled by the action it provides for those who follow it. with 16 regular season games and a furious three-week playoff schedule that leads up to the biggest week of all. the appeal is unquestionable not only to those who grew up around the sport, but the faithful who adopted it as their own. such is the case across the pond. almost everything. >> i'm a football fan outside of london. i'm not sure why. he's a manchester united fan.

>> i have been a fan since 1977. >> he's from manchester and they are a massive team. not like a small team or something like that. they don't win that much. >> they have nice sons. >> that are has been my team. greatest team apart from the niners. >> we are all 49ers fans. >> together that announced it. >> soccer worldwide takes on a darker important. segregation and division is common place. >> soccer has got a bad image. they are trying to keep the fans separate throughout the game on the way to the game and after the game as well. >> all the fans are segregated and you never get a chance to sit next to them from a different city as well and talk football. >> that does lessen the

atmosphere in a way in the united states. you don't have that. the different fans can make. it makes everyone enjoy the game more. >> i met fans of both teams. there was no prubl and no manners. it was all taken in in good humor and fantastic. >> the biggest difference is going to an american football game, you are welcomed. you have to start with a tailgate. you don't have that in the uk. we don't have a mass group of people outside. people going in in the last minute in soccer. i was outside the stadium and mingling with them. >> i would be talking to my children and someone heard my english accent and welcomed us. you are from england? come across to the game. it's fantastic. they are so welcoming. >> people are so friendly and welcome people there. >> in british football, it's

very -- language reg mented. this is my team and gi with one or two people. it's not the same. it's a day out. an event where it's a soccer match over here. it took a while to register what i was seeing. i watched this team on the television through the years. i got into the parking lot and i was like i'm here. i've done it. everything i dreamed about since i was a little boy. >> to be at the stadium, it was a dream come true. i sat there for 20 minutes in a daze really. thinking am i actually here? players were passing my by and i was in the stadium and i watched for years and years. i was in a daze. it meant so much to me. >> we lived and breathed this

since we were kids. you can visualize everything you have seen in the past. >> he throws it and caught by clark. >> it was emotional and i'm not scared to admit. it was incredible. that game is the saints and the place, it just erupted. i swear when the touchdown was caught, it was an out of this world experience. i'm not afraid to admit it. i went through the middle of that game. it was kril grant. >> the great thing about the game is they are sitting there with the fans and what we have is to get into the country. it's a big party and everyone is invited. >> we felt part of the game. there were people of all ages there and it was a great day

out. it was such an amazing experience. >> they were talking to someone who is 9 and 10 now, one of them sides to me that was the best day of my life. between you and me, they're, they're strange creatures.

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just that. where nobody knows your name. the chevrolet cruze eco. with an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon highway. it's the new efficient. generally the 49ers games here in the uk start around 9:15 on a sunday night. we are well up beyond midnight watching football. when it goes into overtime or 1:00 in the morning when we go to bed. if we play monday night football, that involves tweaking your whole body clock and get an hour's sleep before coming to work. wood are a very, very dedicated group of fans. our bosses have to be lenient on a monday morning. >> across the pond, a growing group of faithful follow the

49ers religiously and they touch base for the red and gold. many formed 21st century relationships beginning with the anonymity in cyberspace. >> we met as a group through facebook and twitter and we meet up two to three times a year. the social network extends from talking to regular guys and former nfl players and current nfl players even. also through use of social media. i got to know my first visit to san francisco in 2012. he picked me up from the san francisco airport. he took me to my hotel and we had dinner as well over in the city which was fantastic. >> social media is very important. we see it growing constantly. >> it made us who we are as a group today. that has given us a really firm community of people here.

>> social media not only spawned friendships and bonds, but it became a group far from the bay area. it helped them feel more inform than connectioned to their passion and maybe more importantly allowed them to be organized in the faithfulness. >> it forms the group in 2010. >> trying to get a bit crafty and joining the empires over as we all came online on sunday night and through the week together. that group has really grown. >> i wanted to find out if i could find the fans through facebook. i was trying to promote it as much as we can and make people fans even if we know people are supporting the teams. maybe they will be a 49ers fans. >> it started getting too big for him and he took on extra to grow the group. i'm president of the faithful

uk. we have a vice president and we now have a new vice president. >> the group reflects its leaders. it is interested in expanding the cause. one member added extra personality and tenacity to the brand of brothers and that pushed the group in directions it may have never found itself going. >> i connected with brian through facebook as the president of the united faithful. i needed assistance and brian was one of my choices. he has a great story and we met up in birmingham and decide how we would take this forward. he is loyal, definitely loyal to me and the 49ers to get into this group where it needs to go.

>> the first time i met him, it was fantastic. before i met brian, i fell into a lot about american football. even the risk being played on british soil. they were excited about the 49ers and the love for a sport that is not as foreign as we believe it to be. >> how much we actually care for the game and how much knowledge we have for the game and how much passion we have. lots and lots of passion. we have to see how we go about that and how much passion we

have as an sport. >> faithful is all about loyalty. i started supporting the 49ers in the bilawal sh days and back to back super bowl wins. that's all good and we go into the 90s. this is about keeping strong. you still support the same. they have the current team and away we go. >> this team means every day. you think about it constantly. i have been faithful since 85 and will remain so for the rest of my life. >> through the seasons and the science. we have freed our team. there is no holes barred. and we have gotten what we do on

sunday nights. getting the holiday for the team and going to san francisco to see the team.

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seeing these guys up close at the airport was amazing. the coach was so friendly. he had photos taken with us. it was such a great thing. >> they are so willing to stop and sign things and take pictures. i have two guys holding them. they are over the moon. my 10-year-old is still gripping to be honest. >> it's everything we could have asked for when they stopped for a picture when they converged on the beaming smile. when we got back in, i had seen that the 49ers tweeted out that picture. i said guys, you are never going

to believe this.

a deadly attack on a woman in the east bay. the suspect is her own son. neighbors can't believe what happened to this family. are she is fearful and worried and overwhelmed. >> new worries over the ebola patient in texas. doctors are who are fighting to save his life. >> mountain lions on the peninsula after a cat leaves a deer carcass in front of a home. thank you for joining us. >> we are on right now because of sunday night football. new signs of a mountain lion in a peninsula neighborhood. a deer carcass found in hillsborough. the deer likely killed by a mountain lion. live from the neighborhood at a look at why mountain lions may be getting closer to homes. >> wildlife experts say deer and drought are two reasons why we see more mountain lions get

close to homes. tonight we have proof. they caught a mountain lion less than a mile from this street where a mountain lion apparently killed a deer. hillsborough police say someone living here on crystal drive reported a possible mountain lion in the area. another mountain lion sighting was reported just last week. par are police recently got four cameras to monitor activity and on september 21st, captured this picture of a mountain lion about a mile from where the deer was found today. there was one off highway 280 in millbrae. fish and wildlife experts said this is why they are getting closer. deer. because of the drought, more deer are heading closer to homes. >> mary lives on the street where a mountain lion could have kill