Historical clue formulations

• Football player with a team name inspired by the California gold rush — 2026-01-12
• Levi's Stadium player, informally — 2025-11-20
• San Fran athlete — 2024-04-16
• Montana, once — 2022-07-28
• Colin Kaepernick was one, familiarly — 2021-12-18
• Montana, e.g., informally — 2021-05-29
• Montana, in the 1980s — 2020-06-07
• Bay Area athlete, for short — 2020-01-16
• Forty-___ (old prospector) — 2019-06-25
• Levi's Stadium athlete, informally — 2015-05-10
• Bay Area gridder — 2014-09-21
• San Francisco gridder — 2014-09-14
• Forty-___ (California Gold Rush participant) — 2013-12-02
• N.F.C. West player — 2013-09-22
• What Montana was in the '80s — 2013-02-15
• Digit in military lingo — 2012-09-30
• San Fran gridder — 2012-08-08
• S.F. footballer — 2011-06-01
• San Francisco footballer, for short — 2011-01-31
• Montana, once — 2011-01-13
• West Coast N.F.L.'er — 2009-11-07
• Forty-___ — 2008-02-05
• Cowboy rival — 2007-12-16
• Forty-___ (gold rush participant) — 2007-09-17
• Bronc rival — 2007-09-01
• Number in C.B. lingo — 2006-08-20
• Astronaut's digit — 2005-07-21
• Montana, e.g., once — 2005-07-08
• Montana, notably — 2005-01-27
• Montana, e.g., once — 2004-02-27
• Eighty-___ (early Oklahoma homesteader) — 2003-11-01
• CBer's number — 2002-11-17
• Ram rival — 2002-07-05
• Bayside footballer — 2002-01-13
• West Coast gridder — 2001-05-09
• 3Com Park player — 2000-11-15
• Forty-___ — 2000-10-01
• Frisco footballer — 2000-06-26
• Frisco gridder — 2000-05-01
• San Francisco footballer, briefly — 2000-03-13
• Frisco footballer — 1999-11-22
• Frisco gridder — 1998-09-07
• Number in NASA-speak — 1997-06-13
• Certain San Franciscan — 1996-10-26
• Montana, once — 1996-09-06
• Jerry Rice, e.g., informally — 1996-07-14
• West Coast gridder — 1995-10-28
• Montana, once — 1995-06-01
• San Francisco player, for short — 1994-10-10