49ers–Seahawks rivalry

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The 49ers–Seahawks rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks. The two teams compete in the NFC West and lie 839 miles away from each other on Interstate 5. Although the teams met for the first time in 1976, the rivalry did not begin in earnest until 2002, when Seattle was moved to the NFC West and the teams began facing each other twice in every regular season. The rivalry reached new heights in the early 2010s, when the two teams began competing for NFC dominance. Either Seattle or San Francisco won the NFC West in every season from 2010 to 2014, and in this era the rivalry intensified in large part due to an existing feud between head coaches Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh. Both on-field competitiveness and off-field tension culminated in the 2014 NFC Championship, in which Seattle narrowly defeated San Francisco en route to Super Bowl XLVII. Since and particular during Harbaugh and Carroll's tenures, the rivalry has been...

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