This is the 30th Anniversary of "The Catch" where the 49ers beat the Cowboys to advance to the Super Bowl.
I was always proud of myself for knowing that Dallas almost won that game despite that play. Danny White, on the next drive, hit Drew Pearson across the middle who almost got away. Conventional wisdom is that Pearson would have scored if Eric Wright had not got a hand on his collar.
That play can be viewed
here. When I went back and looked at it I didn't recall #22 being downfield. Yeah, he might have been blocked if Pearson had broken away, but it is no foregone conclusion that Pearson would have scored. History keeps changing on me!
But, man, it was fun to care back then.
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