Which superbowl did 49ers win

With Montana holding, Wersching kicked a yard field goal, increasing the Niners' lead to Wersching's kickoff was another squibber. Archie Griffin touched the ball at the 15, but failed to grab it and watched the ball bounce to the 4, where it was downed by Milt McColl of the 49ers. An illegal procedure penalty cost five yards, but Wersching, refusing as always to look at the goal posts, got his bearings from Montana, the holder, and booted a yard field goal, boosting the San Francisco lead to Bruce Coslet, the special teams coach for Cincinnati, welcomed the squib kicks.

Griffin, who said he was surprised that the Niners would try a squib kick, revealed that "I used to have a theory on that kind of kick, that the first two bounces would be funny and the next bounce would be high. Today they all were funny. Walsh's halftime oration to the troops emphasized that "I wasn't comfortable with the lead. I told them what to expect. We knew we were playing a great team. Maybe if it had been , the Bengals might have caved in, but not with the score John Ayers revealed that the coach had instructed the Niners to treat the second half as though the score was Gregg's halftime pitch to the Bengals scaled no emotional peaks.

I referred to our first game of the season when we came from a first-quarter deficit to beat Seattle. We didn't do anything different in the second half. We just played better. The improvement was noticeable immediately after Wersching's second-half kickoff. Nine plays, plus two Niner face mask penalties, carried Cincinnati to the San Francisco 5-yard line, from where Anderson, after dropping back to pass, sprinted into the end zone.

Two possessions later, the Bengals were at midfield with remaining in the third period. The Bengals were pushed back to their own 41 and Fred Dean, the defensive end obtained from San Diego, made matters worse by tackling Anderson for another four-yard loss, one of four Niner sacks during the game.

But Anderson, on a third-and situation, connected with Collinsworth for 49 yards to the San Francisco Five plays, including Johnson's fourth-and-one plunge from the 5 that netted two yards, resulted in a first-and-goal at the 3. Johnson hit center for two yards and then left guard, where he was stopped by John Harty for no gain. On third down Anderson passed to Charles Alexander in the right flat, but linebacker Dan Bunz came up fast, grabbed the receiver around the waist, and hurled him backward before he could break the plane of the goal line.

Had Bunz tackled him low, Alexander's momentum would have carried him into the end zone. Disdaining a field goal, the Bengals gave the ball again to Johnson, who was stopped by the entire defensive line for no gain. Concerning the decision to pass up the field goal, Gregg said, "I figured that even if we didn't make it, it would put the 49ers on the 1-yard line.

It worked out that way. We held and they punted to us. Then we scored to make it According to offensive coordinator Lindy Infante, "It was a staff decision to go for the touchdown. We had run twice to the left, and David Verser missed a block on the second call because of the crowd noise. He failed to pick up an audible blocking change. We had great success with that play all season, but the 49ers got great penetration. In Cincinnati lineman Dave Lapham's opinion, "We just didn't move anybody off the ball.

Their defense would shift as late as possible before the snap of the ball and we often didn't know who or where a guy would come into the gap. They forced us to change quite a bit on every play. Johnson, the pound battering ram who spearheaded the Cincinnati offense that ranked second best in the NFL, "saw the 49ers rise up at the snap of the ball. I figured I could go underneath. It just didn't work. Middle linebacker Jack Reynolds, in his 12th consecutive playoff season, "thought Johnson would carry the ball in all those short-yardage situations.

As Bunz handled lead blocker Alexander on the fourth-down smash, Reynolds led the charge that snuffed out Johnson. While Bill Walsh regarded the fourth-down stop of Johnson as "the play that won the game for us," Chuck Studley considered Bunz' tackle of Alexander more significant. Bunz had to hit him perfectly to stop him. Bunz thought at first that "Alexander would come up inside. The Bucs and Ryan Succop should see a ton of scoring opportunities against a porous Football Team defense.

The Cardinals defense is proving there's more to this team than a great offense. Home NFL. College Football. That win occurred, of course, after The Catch the round before. The 49ers then suffered three successive playoff losses in three seasons. But, before long, Rice and Montana were back at football's pinnacle again. In both the and '89 seasons, San Francisco coasted to the Super Bowl with an average playoff margin of victory of almost 26 points.

San Francisco's most recent Super Bowl came against the Ravens, which they lost in what became known as the "Blackout Bowl. Dean Smith paid the price for a five-game losing streak in a season that followed the club's sale of star player Jack Grealish to Man City.