Posted on 04/11/2022 3:48:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Almost everybody wants to be a hero. … Do the thing so improbable, so mind-blowing, that you’ll never be forgotten.” – From Hero in the Zone: Dwight Clark
During my 10th-grade year, 1974-75, Dwight Clark was one of the most noticeable 12th graders to walk the halls of Garinger High School in Charlotte, N.C.
He was 6 foot 4, oblivious to his good looks, bustling with good energy, and everywhere. Especially in sports. He starred on our baseball team, our basketball team but shined brightest as quarterback of our football team, the Garinger Wildcats. With all the attention, you never got the sense that Dwight itched to be a star – he just was.
I never knew Dwight personally (12-graders didn’t hang out with “pee-wees”) but the entire school knew this 17-year-old future NFL football legend and easily cheered him. It surprised none of us when the entire sports world came to cheer him, too.
In all nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, 1979 – 87, Clark is best known for what he did in a 7-second play during the final moments of the deciding game in the 1981 NFC Championships against the Dallas Cowboys, Jan. 10, 1982. The winner would advance to Super Bowl XVI and history favored the Cowboys.
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With 58 seconds left in the game, the score was 27 to 21, Cowboys leading, with the 49ers in possession of the ball on 3rd-and-3. After the snap, quarterback Joe Montana scrambled right and found Clark in the back of the end zone.
Montana’s pass was so high that Clark’s defender relaxed when it looked like the ball was headed out of bounds. But the ball reached Clark’s fingertips at the apex of his leap and, somehow, he pulled it out of the air for the catch to put the 49ers up by 1. The 49ers won the game and advanced to compete in its first Super Bowl in franchise history
Well worth the read.....beautifully, poignantly written
For myself, this paragraph captures it all (excellent article though):
“Bottomline, it’s all a mess. And it’s why many of us don’t watch the Oscars anymore. The Oscars lost its magic long before The Slap because of woke elites clamoring to be heroes for grossly exaggerated issues that have no connection to reality. Their one-sided woke orthodoxy is a slap in the face to all of us, especially on race which, today, has tainted everything including sports.”
I remember that game well. I watched it from a friend’s house in Colorado Springs. That finish was one of the most hair-raising of all time.
I was there. I was a “49’er Faithful”. I loved the Montana/Young era Niners. Now, I couldn’t care less about them. Nice work Kaeperdick and the woke NFL.
Exactly, Hollywood has become an eyesore. Have you ever seen that house a builder made with the owners wishlist but it is ugly.It has the numerous bay windows, Dutch doors, French doors, columns,palladium windows but it is huge and ugly.I call that cafeteria design and that is Hollywood today. They take the liberal wishlist and try to fabricate a Frankenstein movie that is horrible.
Great article.
Great post great article, thank you.
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