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...time Quarterback Joe Montana had led San Francisco to its heart-stopping victory over the Dallas Cowboys and to the National Football Conference championship last week, TIME Sport Writer Tom Callahan had already completed much of his reporting for this week's cover story on the 49ers and their crackerjack young star. Callahan had flown to the West Coast the week before to watch San Francisco defeat the New York Giants, and spent the intervening days interviewing the team. Washed out of San Francisco by torrential rains, the 49ers retreated south to dryer practice fields at Anaheim, and Callahan...
Their control begins to waver; Montana's becomes focused. Such drives are his trademark. In three more plays he drove the 49ers to the 13 only to miss an unattended receiver in the end zone. "It kind of shook me up a bit," he would say later, "because there it was-he was open. How many times is it going to be there for you?" Even that flicker of concern did not show, not to the crowd, not to his teammates. Montana sent Lenvil Elliott around left end to the six. Time out. Third and three, with...
Unlike everyone else, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers sees the live play in slow motion. He sees the receiver he will throw the ball to, and he sees the linebacker he must loft the ball over, and, on those fortunate occasions when he is not lying on the ground by this time, he sees the ball in flight. Joe's first target on this play, Freddie Solomon, was covered. Wide Receiver Dwight Clark stationed himself at the back of the end zone and then went sliding in the direction Joe was darting. Under pressure and leaning...
...Montana and Ray Wersching led the San Francisco 49ers to their first Super Bowl championship yesterday with a commanding 26-21 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich...
...49ers deserve a lot of credit for beating America's Team on Sunday. Even in the final minute of play, when they were ahead by less than a field goal, there must not have been a whole lot of people who thought San Francisco would...