The Catch
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  • Too bad they couldn't pull off the same magic again this year, of course, the magic this time would have been don't fumble the football..

  • Very nice, even though I'm not 49ers fan. I can still appreciate great moments in NFL history. And if you're a 49ers fan, and you see this, and you don't get a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye, than you're somebody I don't want to know.

  • Guy's got a vuvuzela at 4:34... Just saying

  • Vin Scully was a bad ass. Football or baseball. great announcer. They don't make em like that anymore. These old school broadcasters like Scully and Enberg made it feel like a big game.\\

    I was listening to Jim Nantz call the AFC Championship game and that call on the missed field goal was horrible.

  • @xXGermszXx The "G-Men" are gunna get burnt and put in a pipe! Now choke on that!!

  • you better believe the niners are gonna have another decade long dynasty:)

  • Elliot was a beast on this drive

  • jesus Elliot is fast

  • somewere little Tommy Brady is in the crowd

  • wow now i no why my dad tells me that Montana was the best Qb

  • @36firerahul  mine too

  • Must have been hard for cowboy fans that day in nfl history

  • The Catch and Catch III both were 3rd and 3

  • It's funny seeing the receivers in a three pt stance.....that's how they did it in the old school. You never see that now.

  • did somebody forget the catch made by john taylor in the super bowl??? wtf?

  • The Montana / Clark catch was awesome because it was so intense since it was before the their 1st SuperBowl. The Smith/Davis catch was awesome too cause just like the Dallas game we weren't expected to win against the Saints. Just remember though there is still one more game to reach the SuperBowl. This Saturday will me more crazy than last if the Niners win. It's been 17 years since our last SuperBowl (94). It's been too long a stretch. Come on 9ers bring the Glory back to the Bay!!!!

  • Vin Scully is way better than douche Joe Buck

  • The Catch III is much better than this one. Dwights catch is memorable, but if it wasn't 4 Eric Wright, Dallas would of won this game. Eric's horse collar tackle on Drew Pearson, and Danny White's fumble deserves a lot of credit 2.

  • @DAJune90 are you stupid the reason why there is th title the catch is because of this

  • Montana to Clark- The Catch

    Young to TO- The Catch Strikes Back

    Smith to Vernon Davis- The Return of The Catch

  • In the US your football players get to catch balls like this. In the Uk our football players mostly catch gonorrhea.

  • Fuck up with this the "the catch III" shit, alex smith won that game for nothing since hes going to lose to eli manning and the giants on an upset like they did to the packers

  • @xXGermszXx I think that's a little bit of what we call... "speculation".

  • @brokenyard I think that's a little bit of what we call..... "a fact"

  • @xXGermszXx Good call on that one.

  • @xXGermszXx The Catch II 49ers lost their next game, yet the name stuck. No matter what happens on Sunday, Smith to Davis will be The Catch III. Don't fight it, just accept it.  Its a fact.

  • @dime138 You're right it will still be memorable but not as memorable as going far to the superbowl with this catch LOL.

  • @xXGermszXx Now what crawled up your ass and died?

  • @jowen333 The same trash that the 49ers produce. Lmfao

  • @xXGermszXx The only trash I could see coming from the 49ers is haters.

  • @jowen333 there is way more Giant haters so be quiet.

  • @xXGermszXx By "more haters for the Giants" you mean " more band-wagon fans" because when team does good they dont usually get haters. You will see next year , after the 49ers win the superbowl, how many 9ers fans there will be.

  • @jowen333 I am sorry jowen, the Giants will beat them Sunday and you can watch the Giants on Super bowl sunday play the Pats or the Ravs you missed this one.

  • @tellingthetruthagain Your wrong and you'll see, come Sunday.

  • @tellingthetruthagain keep dreaming.

  • @jowen333 LOL I was right all along Giants win 49ers choke just like anyone who steps with the G-Men.

  • @xXGermszXx anger much?

  • @49ers0 Great my penis is lodged in your throat too LOL?

  • I've heard from the old season-ticket holders that the The Catch III on Sat. (1/14/12) was more emotionally stirring than The Catch based on total crowd reaction.

    Nine years of failure, losing the lead with four minutes to play despite having it the entire game, getting it back on an epic QB run on 3rd and long with 2:11 left, losing it again with under 1:40, then driving 86 yards to cap it off with a stunning catch with 0:09 to play.

    Unbelievable. Let's hope it all brings Lombardi No. 6.

  • the one on saturday was way more intense cause they did it in just about half the time

  • jump to 6:20 for the start of THE CATCH...BTW, super weird to hear Vin Scully call a football game and not a Dodger game...

  • The catch- Joe Montana to Dwight Clark vs Cowboys(1/10/82)

    The catch 2- Steve Young to Terrell Owens vs Packers(1/7/98)

    The catch 3- Alex Smith to Vernon Davis vs Saints (1/14/12)

  • @wadeownslbjkobe Number 2 was in 1999.

  • @wadeownslbjkobe Number 2 was on 1/3/99

  • I remember the Marlboro scoreboard lol they sure dont get sponsors from cigarettes no more

  • did anybody else notice, that all of "the catches" all happened on a 3rd and 3?

  • I PREDICTED "THE CATCH 3" IN MY SONG ABOUT THE 9ERS DAYS BEFORE IT HAPPENED! CHECK MY CHANNEL AND LISTEN TO THE TRACK "49ER EMPIRE" AND LOOK AT THE DATE IT WAS UPLOADED. WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US? NOBODY!!!!!!

  • The immaculate reception was waaaaaaay better

  • @skittlecrazy52 but this play catapulted the 409ers dynasty of the 80's

  • Joe Montana to Dwight Clark.

    Steve Young to Terrell Owens.

    Alex Smith to Vernon Davis.

  • @idisagreewiththat The evolution of the 49ers QB to reciever connection.

  • the catch 3 smith to davis

  • I love when Vin says...."IT'S A MADHOUSE..."

  • It happened again!

  • I love how the cop is freaking out too.

  • Eat your heart out Clark. VERNON DAVIS!!!

  • The Catch III

  • #2!!!

  • Thumbs up if the N'if'L bring you here!

  • I just saw this on Good Day Sacramento 1 Minute ago! :D

  • When White missed Donnley on that 3rd and and 5 with 4 min to go that would have put them on 49ers 40 that hurt But in retrospect when you can't win with 6 turnovers in a playoff game to go to the Super Bowl maybe you don't deserve it I hate to say

  • @MrBootsdave If if's and but's were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry christmas. You can go over every play and find a way that the cowgirls could have won. Bottom line, 49ers won. Conversation over.

  • My dad at 6:45 in the red jacket!

  • You are missing the drive the Cowboys had to set up the Field Goal but Danny White fumbled it to lose the game. Without the fumble a certain FG attempt would have happened.

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  • @guitarded401 ly correct...as a 4 year old :)

  • @guitarded401 you are absolute

  • The man has hops...

  • Maybe he should have not thrown 3 INT's, ever think about that.

  • happy 30th anny montana to clark in the corner of the endzone....where a dynasty started

  • Happy 30th Anniversary to Sprint Right Option, the greatest play in the history of the NFL!

  • @Martunez You think so how about "20 Halfback Curl X Up" the td pass caught by #82 John Taylor in SB XXIII????????

  • Thanks Joe! Thanks Dwight! Thanks Bill! Thanks Eddie! Thanks Ronnie, Thanks Fred! Thanks Eric!

  • GREATEST PLAY IN THE HISTORY OF NFL

  • 30 years ago today,Dwight Clark made "THE CATCH" that help the San Francisco 49ers beat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the 1981 NFC Championship game. They won SUPER BOWL XVI two weeks later in Detroit. GO NINERS!!!!

  • Montana to Clark!

  • 33 people watched the superbowl with the rest of America

  • @pogo0024 They were cowgirl fans hahaha probably.

  • Heard it on mike n mike lol

  • @SlovelyMite3 ME TOO HAHAHAHA THIS GAME SIGNIFIED THE END OF THE COWBOYS AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 49'ERS DOMINANCE.

  • TODAYS THE ANNIVERSARY! Just heard in on Mike and Mike haha

  • Happy 30th BDay to "The Catch"!!!;0)...brings back so many great memories, NiNerz BayBay!!!

  • Dwight Clark made the catch but Vin Scully made the video GO DODGERS!

  • my mom is the woman at 7:13 :)

  • Fantastic recording, especially since they showed the entire drive and THE CATCH in context. What it doesn't show, though, is that after the subsequent kickoff, the Cowboys had a pass play down the middle of the field that almost won the game. The open field tackle by the 49ers saved the victory.

  • WOO HOO!!!!! to know this STILL stings cowgirl fans all over :) LOL enjoy your vacation time now cowgirls hehe

  • Somewhere, little Tommy Brady is watching in the crowd.

  • damn, that is the catch. what a comeback.

  • A great moment as far as significance goes, but this is a 6 yarder... and he was wide open... Come on. My favorite catch, be it pro or college is definitely Denard Robinson to Roy Roundtree with 2 seconds left against Notre Dame this year. Michigan Scored four TDs in the 4th quarter for a 17 point comeback. That is football. Joe Montana was a great QB, but he was really inconsistent. He just knew how to come from behind.

  • @BaconFrisbee while statistically your comment may be true, (and i agree) THE CATCH is a niners thing man. get the fudge out.

  • @BaconFrisbee whatever Debbie Downer

  • I remember, but i was only 10 yrs old. thank u for posting this, now i could share the CATCH with my children on youtube.

  • And oh yeah FUCK Everson Walls!!!

  • @toesallday met everson walls and dwight clark hes not such a bad guy also hes good friends with dwight

  • Why are Raider fans always hating on the 9ers? I went to a 9er game and there was a group of people n Raider jerseys booing the 9ers. The stupid part was that we were playing the Browns. I was like, don't the Raiders have a game going on? Born haters!

  • goddamn i love this time period...

  • This one game keeps Everson Walls out of the Hall of Fame. Really, a travesty. He was as good as the best. We all have bad days.

  • watching this on youtube 30 years later already knowing the outcome takes a lot of the excitement out of it. that why it may not seem so "great" to some. but watching this live would be a whole different story. every first down or every play you would be extatic and cheering. beleive me if you were watching this live you would be a lot more impressed

  • How in the heck does a routine 6-yard pass go down in history as "The Catch"? It was a great drive, and the TD reception showed some great athleticism. And yes, it was an instrumental play for launching SF's dynasty. But as a play, it was pretty ho-hum. I was expecting to see something spectacular, and all I saw was some decent football.

  • @bluespectralhand " It was a great drive, and the TD reception showed some great athleticism. And yes, it was an instrumental play for launching SF's dynasty. " - are you stupid?

  • is that a vuvuzela at 4:32?

  • Vin Scully and Hank Stram broadcasted this game on CBS-TV. Everyone thought that Pat Summerall and John Madden did. Pat Summerall called this game on CBS Radio with Jack Buck while John Madden was off to Detroit for Super Bowl XVI

  • And the legend began

    

  • Damn 3 interception....

  • Dämmerung des Cowboys

    lol

  • nothing special. 80s crap

  • montana was garbage

  • now do that to Green Bay now and give them 51 seconds....lol.

  • TEXANS!

    

  • i am from texas and i'd go out of my way to support 49ers over the sowboys any day of the week. fuck dallas.

  • 6:40 - The Slickster took time out from recording "Jive Soul Bro" and managing the Twin Towers to make the game.

  • Happy birthday Bill Walsh, you will always be an inspiration.

  • Doesn't Joe Montana Kinda Look Like Tom Brady

  • @natecanflyable *Tom Brady kinda looks like Joe Montana

  • @SGRMProductions im a colts fan but i can still say this. dont insult tom brady by comparing him with joe montana. montana is prolly the most overrated piece of garbage qb in the history of this sport, and tom brady is one of the greatest, so plz just dont.

  • @indycolt194 Overrated piece of garbage? Montana? You MUST be on crack! Multiple comeback wins, 3x MVP, 3x Super Bowl MVP, HOF, some of the most EPIC moments in NFL history...can you tell me the last relevant thing Brady did? Wearing UGGS? Hooking up with a supermodel? Justin Biebering his hair? Thought so

  • @sanbrunojess no last thing he did was throw 50 tds in a season win 3 sbs and 2 mvps.. im not a brady fan, matter of fact i hate the patriots but i cant deny he is one of the greatest qb to play the game. and montana plz are u kidding me he is overrated if u want a great qb of that time look at dan marino.

  • @sanbrunojess but i dont expect u to know football since the only comment u made about brady was his dressing style, hair, and love interest. i mean i thought we were talking about football, no?

  • @indycolt194 I don't know..are we? Because calling a HOF QB garbage really sounds like football talk. I won't argue with you though...Tom Brady is a great QB and a future HOFer. Calling Joe Montana the most overrated quarterback is way off base, though. If you're not a Montana fan, that's cool. Montana's football career speaks for itself.

  • @indycolt194 For sanbrunojess, Tom Brady was rocking that hair style way before Bieber was.

    Now, Tom Brady is good, there's no denying that. But he can't quite match Montana. I'm a Pats fan, but this is the same Brady that led an undefeated team to the Super Bowl, against a team he's already beaten... and lost. Montana wouldn't have done that. In any case, the game has changed somewhat since then, so it's really hard to tell who is better.

    By the way, Cowboys suck.

  • @raetekusu1 I am a huge patriots fan, and when they lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl, I was crushed. The truth is though, Tom Brady is the best quarterback in the NFL, he lost to an EVENLY matched giants team that they BARELY beat in the regular season. It came down to the last play of the game and the giants won. Tom Brady is the best quarterback ever in the NFL

  • Listening to Vin Scully call this made me realize that he could have been the best football broadcaster as well as baseball...

  • Tom Brady (quarterback) was there at the game when he was 4 years old. See greatness, Play greatness.

  • Thumbs up if you hate the Cowboys.

  • @rhythmjunky80 Looks like you're the only one!

  • @rhythmjunky80 cowboys are the shit. 49ers suck our dicks...yeeeah!

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  • @530apina Nice comback loss against the Giants...go play hide & seek with your QB

  • @rhythmjunky80 HATE THE COWGIRLS!!!!

  • @rhythmjunky80 How about three thumbs up hahaha.

  • @rhythmjunky80 The play was called "66 Sprint Right Option"

  • Man these were the games when the cowboys and 49ers use to meet up back in the day. I miss these game true talented physical football games This is the year the 49ers went on to beat the Bengals. It was good close Superbowl. it was all 9ers and Cincinnati made a good comeback attempt if I remember correctly. Cincinnati owned the Chargers in the AFC title game nothing has changed since then..

    Is that Jerry Seinfeld @ 7:33 LOL

  • @trancefreak64 ikr, oh, & lol!

  • I remember seeing this as it happened.....it was amazing. Joe Montana was the most amazing QB in the game EVER. No one can beat his states in the same amount of games played.

  • Literally brought me to tears. Best play in 49ers history.

  • My favorite is seeing the cop excited on the sideline, so awesome

  • Is it just me, or is it just really weird for anyone to hear Vin Scully call football?

  • easy catch

  • One of the most legendary football play of all time. This catch is ridiculous.

  • VIN SCULLY!!!!

  • Yo 70's Steelers, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma gonna let your dynasty go down in history as one of the greatest in sports history, but the 49ers 80's and+ early 90's Super Bowl dynasty was the greatest pro football dynasty of all-time!

  • the catch is at 6:15

  • Amazing

  • I agree with thebenflorence. One of the greatest plays in NFL history called by the greatest announcer in history, Vin Scully.

  • greatest moment in NFL history. And you can see it in the fans. I hope we will see candlestick like that someday before we move to that new ugly stadium

  • Hella pimpin at 6.40

  • Thanks for the vid!

  • People forget how good of a football announcer Vin Scully was

  • does bill walsh even know that he scored?? 8:16

  • @teddsman according to wikipedia he did not

  • greatest moment in nfl history. period.

  • 31 people meant to search Joe Montegna

  • Dude that was quite a leap to catch that .... He made it look easy too

  • I wasn't even born and I still cheered!

  • Dwight Clark shoulda been like HEY DALLAS- HOLD MAH DICK!

  • @vanrales This was the beginning of the end for the Cowboys. The '80s weren't too kind to them.

  • Looking at the play, you can make a reasonable judgment that Montana was actually trying to throw the ball away and Clark went up and got it. We'll probably never know for sure.

  • I didn't know Huggy Bear was @ the game... chk out 6:40... there he is, that pimp!

  • who ever #51 was for the Niners, he L A I D out the DB #25 for Dallas... check it out @ 1:21 - 1:33.... AWESOME!

  • @billythekid602 #51 for the 49ers was Randy Cross, who later became a broadcaster for CBS and NBC; and is currently at Sirius XM co-hosting their NFL Radio shows. #25 for the Cowboys was Rod Hill who later went on to have a great career with the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

  • howcome it seems like football players from the 80s and 90s are a lot bigger? do they wear bigger pads and why lol?

  • @lukeulriksen pads were much bigger back then. the reason pads are smaller today is that new technology allows for better protection from smaller equipment

  • Dude tosses the game winner then holds for the extra point..........they don't make 'em like Joe

  • blah - thay was some lucky bs - cowboys 4ever!

  • @MrIzzyDizzy lol cowgirl fans still mad about this play nearly 30 years later, that wasnt luck that was destiny, the beginning of a dynasty.

  • @killahoekillahoecity ya was agood run for the niners - we came back on later as well - im not mad im getting to old to really get mad - just though id mess with the niners abit

  • @MrIzzyDizzy haha its all good, and your right you guys did come back, its funny whoever won when the two teams played ended up winning the SB that year...man if both teams could still be as good as they were in the 80's 90's when the NFC was dominant.

  • @killahoekillahoecity How's your dynasty now brah?

  • @michaelhays92 you dont got any room to talk bitch, how's cowboy's dynasty bruhh??

  • @chodaswipe123

    4 wins in a row is feeling pretty good right now bitch!

  • and hmm um let me see which team holds more player/records? o yea 49ers. bitch.

  • 6 year old Tom Brady was sitting in the endzone of this game.

  • HELL YEAH NINER NATION!!!!!!!!

  • i like dwight clarks reaction. he just spiked the ball and jogged like it was nothing.. BOSS lol

  • U mad cowboys?

    

  • Lol look at how thin all the linemen are. No 350 pound roided up lardasses back then.

  • On a added note this post-season was a notable one for a couple of reasons:

    1) The aforementioned "The Catch"

    2) The Epic in Miami

    3) The coldest AFC Championship game ever (Cincy v San Diego)

    4) The only SB in the Silverdome (SB 40: "The Bus's going away party" was played at Ford Field)

    5) Beginning of the 49ers dynasty

  • @Team903rd Thanks for the 411. As for #2, I know about that game...being from South Florida, the Chargers over the Dolphins 41-38 in OT, with the Hook and Ladder TD, Kellen Winslow Sr. catching like 14 passes, and being helped off the field at the end exhausted...it must have been some game,because years later a local newspaper asked fans to vote for the best Dolphins game...and the winner was The Epic. And the Dolphins LOST the game!