Here we go again. Like a pair of old-time prizefighters, the Cowboys and 49ers will hook up once again in the playoffs. Sunday’s game in the NFC Divisional...
at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., will be Round Nine between the two.
As had been the case a year earlier, the game turned in the Cowboys’ favor on a Brodie interception, this time by George Andrie, which set up a 1-yard Calvin Hill touchdown plunge. The Cowboys held San Francisco to one first-half first down and intercepted Brodie three times. Staubach controlled the rest of the game, accounting for 158 of the Cowboys’ 244 total yards of offense, including a team-best 55 yards rushing.
You need the details? Or is Dwight Clark’s leap in the corner of the end zone permanently — and painfully — seared into your brain? Well, here goes: Clark’s 6-yard catch from Joe Montana on third-and-3 with 51 seconds left tied the NFC Championship Game at 27. Ray Wersching’s extra point gave the 49ers the lead. The Cowboys streaked to the 49ers’ 29 with 33 seconds to play, but, yeah, no more miracles.
“In the eyes of a lot of our fans, this is a payback for what happened 11 years ago,” owner Jerry Jones said after the game. “This heals a lot of wounds.”Jan. 23, 1994: Three-inch headlinesAs guarantees go, it was perhaps not Joe Namath and the Super Bowl, but it was certainly more than Mike McCarthy this season.
The 49ers rushed out to a 21-0 first-quarter lead and harassed Aikman with three interceptions and four sacks. Among the interceptions was one by the stronger coverage corner, a guy named Deion Sanders, who smothered Harper, the game-breaker from the year before. Sanders and former Cowboy Ken Norton had been among a passel of free agent additions for the 49ers after two consecutive NFC championship losses.
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