Superbowl XXIII |
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With his team trailing
16-13 late in Super Bowl XXIII and the ball 92
yards from the goal line, Joe Montana turned to
tackle Harris Barton in the 49ers' huddle. "Hey
Harris," Montana said. "Check it out. There's
(actor) John Candy." The 49ers quarterback wasn't
called Joe Cool for nothing. Having turned his
attention back to the field, Montana quickly led
San Francisco to Cincinnati's 18-yard line by
completing 6-of-7 passes, the key collaboration a
27-yard strike to Jerry Rice on second-and-20 from
the Bengals' 45-yard line. Next came an 8-yard
completion to Roger Craig. The 49ers called time
out with the ball on the 10 and 39 seconds
remaining. "We had been hitting Roger
Craig underneath so much and they'd been doubling
our outside guys," Montana said. "So we tried to
get the back underneath again. We had
John Taylor run a little up
pattern and split the safeties. If the linebackers
go deep, you go to Roger. If they don't, you go to
John." This time, the linebackers
didn't drop back into coverage. Montana drilled a
pass to Taylor in the end zone, giving the 49ers a
20-16 victory in the most dramatic finish in Super
Bowl history. |
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