49ers Fire Coach Nolan Amid PR Nightmare

The 49ers sure get points for finding ways to make a simple firing of a bad head coach into a public relations disaster.

Early Monday evening there was a report from ESPN claiming that the 49ers were set to fire head coach Mike Nolan after next week's game against the Seattle Seahawks. Even if San Francisco went out and thumbed the Seahawks 70-0, Nolan's goose would be cooked.

What a joke.

Why would anyone wait a whole week to fire someone, when, in fact, the decision to fire had already been made? The 49ers are stupid and should not have thrown Nolan under the bus like that. If you going to fire someone do it face to face!

Since this information became public, the 49ers had no choice but to officially fire Nolan at around 8:07 pm ET, Monday night. This ended any speculation and torture that the 49ers would put Nolan and the team through.

Mike Singletary, who is a legendary linebacker, who played for the 1985 World Champion Chicago Bears, will become the interim head coach. No word if Singletary will be the full time coach.

This is the third coaching change this season, which is unprecedented. Usually teams let the season play out before firing a coach. The Rams fired Scott Linehan two weeks ago and replaced him with Jim Hasslet. Hasslet is on pace to remove the word "interim" from his name after big victories against the Redskins and Cowboys in consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, Lane Kiffin was fired by the Raiders four weeks ago, because of a conflict of interest between him and owner Al Davis.

Other coaches on the hot seat this Halloween holiday, how fitting at this time of the year: Herman Edwards (Kansas City), Eric Mangini (New York Jets), Wade Phillips (Dallas Cowboys), Mavin Lewis (Cincinnati Bengals), Rod Marinielli (Detroit). There could possibly be 10 new head coaches in the NFL going into 2009. Incredible!