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With the NFC Championship game just three days away, the San Francisco 49ers got a little dose of good news when Deebo Samuel went back out on the practice field on Thursday. 

Levi's Stadium will remain the name of the San Francisco 49ers' home stadium in Santa Clara into the 2040s under a proposed naming rights extension announced Thursday.

The countdown can begin.

After a nail-biter of a game, the 49ers are once again heading to the NFC Championship Game, this time facing the Detroit Lions.

Christian McCaffrey scored his second touchdown on a 6-yard run with 1:07 to play, and the San Francisco 49ers mounted their first second-half comeback of the season to beat the Green Bay Packers 24-21 in a divisional-round playoff game on Saturday night.

With an epic 49ers-themed man cave inside his Wisconsin home, this Niner super fan lives in the heart of Packer territory.

Deebo Samuel separated himself from the crowd long before he arrived in Santa Clara. Mark Hodge, Samuel's high school coach at Chapman High School in Inman, South Carolina, remembers the first time Samuel walked on to the field.

Fan excitement over the San Francisco 49ers playoff game against the Green Bay Packers definitely reached a fever pitch.

Bay Area native and Grammy-nominated artist Saweetie with Pinole's own P-Lo recorded a song called “Do it for the Bay," ahead of the highly-anticipated 49ers-Packers playoff game.

The threat of rain is not stopping fans who have come from far and wide to see what is a rematch of a divisional round game from two years ago. There has been a steady stream of fans coming to Levi’s Stadium Friday, some just looking around the stadium and others here to purchase team merchandise.

Several official watch parties are being held throughout the Bay Area and in Mexico City, Mexico ahead of the 49ers-Packers playoff game.

With the 49ers set to take on the Green Bay Packers Saturday night, sports bar San Pedro Social in San Jose is expecting a huge crowd and management says prepping for game day has already begun.

For some 49ers Faithful, new merchandise is a must before the team opens its NFL playoff run Saturday against the Green Bay Packers