and we were happy to be there. we absolutely loved it. >> his day had come. he was a proud season ticket holder for the 49ers. he could now enjoy the sights and sounds. he could mix with the crowd and be amongst the faithful. except for one little snafu. >> here is the reality. the woman who lives in my house, otherwise known as my wife, is a seattle seahawks fan. >> i was actually born in palo alto. i have always loved san francisco. but my dad was an aur aeronautical engineer. i lived there in the '70s when the seahawks became huge. >> she was there when the name seattle seahawks was concocted. by the way, it's a fake -- there's no such thing as a sea hawk. there is such a thing as a 49er. that's rich california history. it's epic. it represents the state.

sea hawk. oh, a bird that doesn't exist. but that's my wife. i try to remind her, we are season ticket holders to the san francisco 49ers. and that she has is an investor in levi's stadium as well. but, yes, she is a seahawks fan as hard as i try to change her >> but i also love san francisco. i must be clear on that. i love the team. one of the highlights of my life was being a bar cart girl, and joe montana and dwight clark were waiting for me back at the clubhouse when i brought the cart in. they came out and hugged me because i gave them a drink. and they were such nice gentlemen, such good people. and that's part of what started my 49ers love as well. i love both teams very much. however, when push comes to shove, i am seahawks all the way. and that's been our bone of contention. >> she's pretty tough.

>> it's tough being a fan on the outskirts of seahawks territory. and it's even tougher living with a seahawks fan. but to make things even tougher, monica has added a certain degree of difficulty to his work life too. >> i do have a second job. i am the public address announcer for the nba portland trail blazers. have been coming out of my 18th season. the owner of the portland trail blazers, my boss, paul allen, is also the owner of the seattle seahawks. awkward. >> do you have your own incredible faithful story to tell or do you know someone who truly is a faithful? let us know about it. email 49ers studios at f fns @49ers.com and share it with the world. strike gold with nbc bay

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i am the public address announcer in the nba for the trail blazers. i'm in my 18th season. paul allen, the owner of the portland trail blazers, my boss, is also the owner of the seattle seahawks. awkward. yeah. he sits 45 feet away from me every game. i don't know if he -- he may be finding out right now that his p.a. guy in portland is a 49ers fan. he's got bragging rights right

now. so i don't know if i'd bring it up with him right away. are you guys going to talk to him about this? >> we've got good news and bad news. we won't alert mark's employers to the fact that he is a die-hard faithful living on the cusp of seahawks territory. that's the good news. the bad news is that the worldwide web goes, well, worldwide. so this will be broadcast seen everywhere and anywhere the faithful call home, which is basically anywhere and everywhere. >> he is a very brave man. he'll wear his 49ers gear into the center here even though paul allen is sitting just a few feet from him. he really loves his 49ers and it comes through. i remember one time we were doing a halftime. for some reason, jeff garcia was here at our game. and he wanted to get new his halftime reads as fast as he could, and he was like, hey, this is mark mason, and i'll see you after the half. and all of a sudden he gets up

and he's away from his microphone. and i look around, and he is running across the court to say hello to jeff garcia and get a photo. mark mason definitely loves his niners, that's for sure. >> although he loves his niners, his heart and time is split between his other franchise, the trail blazers who call in portland, oregon, where they call the moda center their home. and during basketball season, he say pivotal piece of the spectacle that happens in rip city. with his booming voice, the transact is palpable for the blazers. >> game days for the trail blazers is really all about excitement. it's all about the show. and mark mason sets the stage for that show. he's not on camera a lot, but you know that he's there. he is the voice that welcomes you into the moda center. the first thing you hear other than music, the first words not from an usher, is mark mason

saying, hello, trail blazer fans. welcome back to the beautiful moda center for tonight's game. and that is just like you walk in, and that is what you expect to hear at an nba game. but not just an nba game, but the trail blazers game. so i think mark mason's voice really sets the stage and comes with what you expect, you know, here at a trail blazers game. >> i've never missed a game since i started. i have done something like 730, i don't know, five straight, regular season and playoff games. including preseason, maybe closer to 800 games. i have never missed one. i have been sick. i have showed up in snowstorms and everything else. but i have never missed one. >> it's so great to have someone like him be behind the microphone, because he is the ironman of broadcasting. you know, he is on this amazing streak. he hasn't missed a game in forever. we've come close a couple of times. he'll scare me a couple of times and call me during the day,

todd, i -- my throat, i don't know if i'm going to be able to do it. i'm like, drink hot tea. get yourself a lozenge. he is a gamer. whether he is feeling 100% or not, he'll be there and give it his all. >> fans, are you ready for your portland trail blazers! the nba rookie of the year and nba all-star, larry bacero! and downtown. >> yeah, baby. that was sweet!

[ buzzer ] >> blazers win! blazers win! and do they. ♪ >> rip city, baby. >> i will say we are so fortunate to have him behind the microphone because mark mason has this talent where he can be talking, reading a script or whatever, and i'm telling him something completely different in his ear, and he doesn't mess up. so he can take what i'm saying in his ear, and be able to reserve that while finishing his thought or what he's reading and then be able to deliver that message. and we wouldn't be able to do that with anybody else other than mark mason. so we're extremely fortunate to have him working with us here at the trail blazers. >> but it's still so fun to hear his voice. even at home, you watch it on tv, and you are kind of following the camera, trying to catch a glimpse of him. but you can hear him in the background. >> he brings the persona of the

blazer fans. these fans are rabid in here. and he brings that out. the fans go nuts when they hear his voice. and he psyches up the crowd. and they are crazy already. it gets even crazier when mark is announcing. ♪ ♪

>> rip city was a creation from the radio broadcaster, the very first broadcaster of the portland trail blazers, he said it came out of nowhere during a play when the ball sailed through the air and hit the net. and a very distinctive sound in the nba when the ball hits the net and you kind of hear it tearing through the net. and spinning through the net makes that very unique sound. and he heard it, and he just out of nowhere just said rip city. and that stuck. and pretty soon people all over town adopted it. everybody loves rip city. we are rip city. >> whether it's the city of roses, dumptown, or rip city, one of the most distinguished voices of portland is as faithful as they come. and tougher than rooting for your team almost 700 miles away is watching your team when you have to work 40 plus nights a year and sometimes schedules

collide. >> working the nba microphone during a niners game is pretty tough. the guys do everything they can -- i'm on a network, wearing a head phone, and they are giving me updates on the score. >> we text back and forth game day. if there's something on about 49ers, we shoot stuff back and forth even during games. >> dal is a guy that i text with right now during games. we'll sit there and text each other while the plays are going on. if you would see a copy of that text, it would probably be, i mean, you know, feet long. it would roll out 20 feet. we're talking about the guys are doing great. and sometimes we say, oh, man, we're playing like you know what. >> a lot of times we start talking, but he doesn't want to know the score. he'll catch it later. and then he'll start texting me, what's the score, and i don't tell him. and we go back and forth. and people are on the head sets talking, niners this, niners that. >> we follow the game while the nba players are going back and forth. at time-outs and breaks, i'm

saying, niners are up by seven. just scored a touchdown. we're going to win this thing. it's great. do you have your own incredible faithful story to tell or do you know someone who truly is a faithful? let us know about it. email 49ers studios at f fns @49ers.com and share it with the world. >> the roof of a safeway has collapsed. >> this is highway 37. the victims of the flash flooding were able to set up sand bags. >> all 50 will have to be evacuated. >> we are in the clear. >> the storm system is moving so slowly off towards the south.

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if you have ever been to a portland trail blazers game or flipped on a radio in the pacific northwest, you will have heard mark mason. but his story is not unlike those who are faithful to the 49ers. when it comes to the bay area, he loves it too. the town and the faithful. they are part of his everyday

life. even if his everyday life is nine hours north of his beloved 49ers. >> i have lost track of how many years we've been season ticket holders. it's been a long time. but when we used to live in the bay area and in sacramento, we'd get in the car at 8:00 in the morning and take off for games. and sometimes we would get to the game -- i remember one game we got there at the beginning of the second quarter. and, you know, a couple of hours, the game's over, you've got to drive back. but that was our life, and we did for the 49ers. and we moved to portland, and we thought what are we going to do? we love that city. we lived there for four years. it's a beautiful city. it's so much fun to visit. now when we go back, we just love it. so now we buy our tickets ahead of time. we step on the plane at 8:30 or 9:00, land in san francisco at 10:00, we get off the plane and invariably there are always

people there at the airport who are headed to the game. and all we do -- and we have done this for 15 years. you get off the plane and look for people in jerseys, and say, how are you getting to the game? if they get a cab, we say, do you want to split it? or if they say a friend approximate is picking us up, we say, do you have room for us? and we go tailgating and communicate with some of them still with email. >> i love going to san francisco. it's a wonderful city. and the 49ers, the games are magic, like my husbands. the experience is huge. >> there is the beauty of the nfl. you have to be there in person, though. everybody says it's a great television sport. you can watch it on television,

and i think the same thing of basketball too that you can just watch it on television. i don't need to buy a season ticket. but now when you go there, you are getting an experience you can't get on television. the camera can only show you so much. but when you're there, there's action. it's rocking. you're feeling the game. it's multisensory. >> deep down the far sideline. intercepted! intercepted by cox and the 49ers win their first at levi's stadium. the far side, johnson, touchdown, 49ers. >> wide right. out of the shotgun. and he's got it! the ball fumbles, and the friensfrien 49ers will survive again. >> but when we go to the game, we're just excited because it's a special brand of person, it's a special brand of fan. i don't know if it's nfl, but i

do know it's the nfl and san francisco. it's great people. just walk up to the street and talk to them, and they'll help you. the word "faithful" to me, when i talk about the 49ers, the one thing that just jumps out at me is it's to the core. you can be faithful. anybody can be faithful and say that you're a 49ers fan. but when it's to the score, and, you know, you see them, the road games on tv, those people that are out there in the cold in green bay and they are 49er fans. now that's faithful. they are 49er fans to the core. from deep inside. so that's where i think the faithful comes from.

members of the faithful. as you can see, we love telling a good story. trust us to share yours by reaching out to 49ers studios at fns @49ers.com. >> there's bumper stickers all over town that say keep portland weird. and every citizen tries to advance that. you know, in one way or another

in their lifetime when they're here. so we're all just kind of pulling on the same side of the road to keep it weird. we have voodoo donuts. everybody comes here to go to a donut shop. voodoo donuts. it's a donut, but they are still are good. it's a great culture. warm, wonderful people.

the bay area may have dried out this weekend, but it's about to get another soaking. we'll show you where the morning commute will be the toughest. >> and the father of the ferguson 18-year-old whose killing touched off months of protest is in the bay area tonight. we'll have a live report. and it seems the police department is looking into controversial tweets from one of its own. good evening, everyone. >> thank you for joining us. the 49ers faithful will have to hold onto that faith for another

year after today's painful defeat at the hands of the seattle seahawks. we do have team coverage tonight. we have reaction from fans and also what this means for businesses around the stadium. but first, we turn to kelly johnson of comcast sportsnets for the highlights. this is the 49ers' third straight loss under harbaugh. >> it's tough. they will not make the playoffs, and the salt in the wound, it's the seahawks who knocked them out of postseason contention. they led at the half. down three here in the fourth quarter after a controversial roughing the passer. seahawks up by 10. ensuing 49er possession, bruce miller in after frank gordon left with injury. he stops short on the fourth and one. niners get shut out in the second half, losing 17-7. harbaugh can't watch. their playoff hopes dashed. >> never give in. you know, keep fighting. which our guys did today.

i understand we're not eliminated from the playoffs. >> i think we are mathematically out of it. but you play this game because you love it. so we're not about to go out here and lay down for anybody. as far as i'm concerned, we need to finish with two wins. >> now the harbaugh watch kicks into high gear. his future in serious doubt. we'll have much more coming up at 9:30 on "xfinity sports sunday." back to you. >> kelly, thank you very much. tonight's disappointment comes in the shadow of a beautiful new $1.3 billion stadium and all those businesses out there. marianne is joining us live at levi's stadium with that part of the stadium. >> well, terry, many fans say this beautiful stadium you see behind me certainly met their expectations, even exceeded them. and they were hoping that the niners' performance on the field would have done the same. this was not the game 49ers fans were hoping for. the team only scored seven points, losing to the seattle seahawks.

the look on coach jim harbaugh's face spoke volumes about the loss, which means the niners have no shot at postseason play. >> it's disappointing. you get a big stadium here in santa clara, and it's nice, and you think oh, we have a new stadium. on a roll this season. it would be nice. but it's disappointing to say the least. >> the niners have made it into the playoffs the past three years, and fans were hoping for at least the same this year, especially with the excitement of the shiny new stadium. extra games would have also brought in extra cash to businesses in santa clara. hotels in restaurants benefitting from big crowds and preparties. madalyn flanders works in a gift store and was counting on a postseason to boost her paycheck. >> it's going to be less hours. les seeing people. less interacting with fans. it's going to be bad. it's going to be really sad. >> reporter: many fans say they feel this season the niners lacked consistency. still, they say they will remain

faithful, as they say goodbye to this season and look forward to the next. >> the 49ers will play the san diego chargers here at levi's stadium next saturday. reporting live in santa clara, nbc bay area news. >> definitely a tough game for a lot of folks. turning now to the weather, rain is back in the bay area. let's take a live look right now at the golden gate bridge. it's been raining there. and it's also come down for the past hour or two. a lot more is on the way. could hit just as you are hitting the road tomorrow morning to head to work. let's check in now with rob with what we can prepare for. >> right now you're seeing that on the camera lens on the golden gate bridge. more substantial rain now crossing the coast around pacifica. this wave will rain will come in and increase as we head into the morning commute. once again like last week, this storm tapping some tral