Word: quarterbacked
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Montana and wide receiver Jerry Rice put together a fine drive in the game's final minutes. And when the game was over--after Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason's pass fell to the grass--we saw something we don't see often in sports anymore, let alone on the tense city streets. When the gun sounded, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh and Cincinnati Coach Sam Wyche walked off the field...
Super Bowl XXIII, like most things in football, began with Paul Brown. He hired Bill Walsh in the 1960s to assist in coaching the new Cincinnati Bengals. When Walsh got his own command in San Francisco, reserve quarterback Sam Wyche followed along to tutor passers. Together Wyche and Walsh scouted and drafted Notre Dame's Joe Montana. In two triumphant Super Bowls, Montana has been the player of the game. Now he is the central figure in a third...
...onset of two-minute warnings, got to puzzling over why even sluggish teams always seem able to move the ball at game's end. Increasingly, he has had the Bengals operating in a hurry-up mode from the start, dispensing with huddles, relying on sinister (defined: left-handed) quarterback Norman ("Boomer") Esiason to communicate the plans aloud in a complicated tongue. The effect has been to freeze the other team's situation specialists on the sidelines or create a confusion of too many men on the field...
...Browns won the game that night, the title that year and the decade on balance. Montana is Van Buren now, and it is the decade that the 49ers are after. For the first time in his ten seasons, San Francisco's darling quarterback has had an internal rival, one with the disturbing name of Steve Young. Montana is only 32 but has charted enough maladies, highlighted by back surgery two years ago, to feel older. His favorite receiver and off-field running mate, Dwight Clark, 32, retired with creaky knees this season. "Losing Clark," coach Walsh theorizes, "may have started...
Walsh's delight in taking quarterbacks apart and putting them back together again also affected Montana's spirit. Recognizing the opponent's quandary in preparing for both -- Montana is a drop-back passer, Young a rollout runner -- Walsh coyly invented a quarterback controversy. He cut it out only when Joe started rolling steel balls in a clenched fist while quoting Y.A. Tittle on the three ages of athletic life. "Y.A. told me that when you're young, they love you. When you're in the middle, they hate you. But when you're old, they love you again...