Now that Sunday's San Francisco 49ers game in St. Louis may be for all the underwhelming marbles of the NFC West championship, you'd figure the Monday before that game as one of the worst times in the season for a quarterback controversy.
But that's exactly what you've got, 49ers Faithful, because San Francisco coach Mike Singletary either doesn't know, or isn't willing to say whether Alex Smith or Troy Smith will start Sunday's day-after-Christmas date with improbable playoff destiny.
"It's something I don't want to announce right now," Singletary told Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. He said the two quarterbacks will spit practice reps this week, which is just brilliant because that means the guy who does start will have had less practice to prepare for the Rams.
Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who thinks the 49ers could make it to the Super Bowl and still not settle on a starting quarterback.
