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Jimmy Johnson promising victory over the San Francisco 49ers in this year's NFC Championship game? Perhaps Joe Namath guaranteeing a Jet victory over the Colts in Super Bowl...
Following yesterday's second annual trouncing of the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC title game, the Dallas Cowboys will return to the Super Bowl next Sunday to defend their championship...
...Mike Sherrard (wide receiver) $600,000 (49ers) $1.75 million (Giants...
Dallas got a taste of that on a January afternoon in San Francisco's Candlestick Park back in '82, when the hometown 49ers upset the mighty Cowboys 28-27 in the N.F.C. championship game. The grainy replays still haunt the faithful: Joe Montana throwing in the final minute, Dwight Clark leaping in a corner of the end zone, then "the Catch" that propelled the 49ers to the top of the N.F.L. pyramid -- a position they were to hold, more or less, through much of the subsequent decade...
...Montana's ranking on the San Francisco 49ers' quarterback chart. How good are the 49ers? Montana, a great player in his autumnal prime, was arguably not even the team's best QB. While his elbow healed, his replacement, Steve Young, had an MVP season, while another ace, Steve Bono, occasionally spelled Young. This year the 49ers have the form of Super Bowl winners. But could they beat the University of Miami...