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49ers reflect on 3rd Super Bowl victory
Walsh will remain with 49ers
but may retire from coaching
MIAMI (AP) — Still savoring the
victory that made him the second
winningest coach in Super Bowl his
tory, Bill Walsh had bad news for the
rest of the NFL Monday: Even if he
steps down as coach, he will continue
working to keep the San Francisco
49ers on top.
“I don’t necessarily have to coach
to keep the 49ers at or near the top
of the league,” Walsh said as he
basked in the last-minute, 20-16 vic
tory over Cincinnati that gave the
team its third NFL title in the ’80s.
That was the feeling of Jerry Rice,
who earned the game’s MVP award
by catching 11 passes for 215 yards.
The yardage was a Super Bowl re
cord; the number of catches tied
The victory stamped San Fran
cisco as unquestionably the team of
the decade.
“People with the right chemistry
all participate together and are in
volved in the decisions. We have
worked well together for years.”
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Walsh’s news conference Monday
was an opportunity for the 57-year-
old coach, now second in Super
Bowl victories to Pittsburgh’s Chuck
Noll, to get a few things off his chest.
He put in a none-too-subtle plug
for defensive coordinator George
Seifert as his successor if he decides
to give up coaching and move into
the front office after meetings later
this week with 49ers owner Edward
DeBartolo Jr.
And sometimes with tongue in
cheek, sometimes not, he took jabs at
impatient NFL owners; “mercenary”
player agents and the Bay Area me
dia, harsh critics when the 49ers
were 6-5 and faltering this season.
But the criticism faded as the
49ers went on to win seven of their
last eight, including Sunday’s victory
on a 92-yard drive in three minutes,
capped by Joe Montana’s 10-yard
pass to John Taylor with 34 seconds
left.
That pass may have given Walsh
the opportunity to leave on top, al
though he still seems to be wavering.
Ironically, he had served as the
team’s president as well as coach un
til after last season, when DeBartolo
stripped him of the presidency after
a 36-24 loss to Minnesota in the play
offs following an NFL-best 13-2 sea
son.
“Now that we’ve won this game, it
would be far easier to do it,” Walsh
said.
“But I don’t want to leave and
then come back nine days later and
sav I’ve changed my mind.”
“Right now, we feel like Bill is
going to come back,” Rice said. “I
feel Bill is still competitive and not
ready yet to give up the game.
“And when you’re getting paid $1
million a year ...”
Walsh, who has one year left on a
contract due to pay him $1.3 million
next season, laughed at that refer
ence.
But he only half laughed about
some other things that came up —
like owners and agents.
“This is a competitive game.
There are a lot of people — espe
cially the owners — who have lost
sight of the fact that there are 28 en
tities,” Walsh said.
“A lot of owners don’t realize you
can’t win every year. They come
from businesses where they’ve had
continued success and there’s no
competition.
“So a lot of coaches get fired un
fairly or prematurely by owners who
don’t understand the dynamics of
the game.”
Walsh seems to have patched
things up with DeBartolo after the
two barely spoke for six months over
differences ranging from player
personnel to Walsh’s personal life.
As for agents, Walsh suggested
that they distract players from the
goals of a team.
“It’s different working with some
of today’s athletes — probably be
cause of the agents,” he said.
“They get very mercenary. We
like to feel we’re a team, but agents
sometimes move the players away
from that concept. I blame the
agents for that more than the play
ers.”
As for Seifert, Walsh seemed pre
pared to give him a present beyond
Sunday’s Super Bowl victory, which
took place on the assistant’s 49th
birthday.
“He’s had offers,” Walsh said of
the man who has been with him ev
ery year but one since 1977.
“He’ll be a head coach next year.
At least I hope so. He certainly de
serves it.”
Oldest rookie fulfills dream
Figure the odds
MIAMI (AP)
on this one.
Pierce Holt, a pass-rushing line
man for the San Francisco 49ers,
played one year of high school foot
ball at Rosenberg, near Houston.
Not even a junior college offered
to see more of him in uniform.
He went to work.
He farmed. He drove a fork lift.
He got a job in a make-ready shop of
an auto dealer. He was an inspector
for a mortgage company.
That went on for three years. By
then, he had gotten married and
had a daughter.
He decided to attend college and
play football again at age 22.
He’d grown from the 180-
pounder in high school. He was 240
and in decent shape from weightlift
ing and pickup basketball games.
But who wanted him?
What possible skills could he
have? He made no waves in high
school. A Division II school accepted
him. He enrolled. He played four
seasons in the defensive line. A son
was born to his wife and him.
Pro scouts were on his trail. The
no-talent prep player turned out
pretty good. He was the Division II
defensive player of the year as a se
nior.
“Half of the scouts were con
cerned about my age,” he told
sportswriters in Miami for the Super
Bowl. “The other half didn’t care.
They just wanted a player.”
San Francisco drafted him in the
second round. And that, in capsule
form, is how Holt, who turned 27 on
New Year’s Day, became the oldest
rookie ever to appear in a Super
Bowl.
Holt was born in Marlin, Texas,
grew up in Rosenberg, and starred
in college at Angelo State. He was al
ways a Dallas Cowboys fan, he said.
“They never showed much inter
est,” Holt said. “One scout came out.
I never saw a coach. It kinda irri
tated me because I was a defensive
tackle in a 4-3 and the Cowboys ran a
similar defense.
“I always pictured myself playing
next to Randy White. But I’m
ecstatic over the way things turned
out, especially after the season they
had.”
The 49ers employ Holt as a situa
tion pass rusher. He’s even a late
bloomer in that role after missing
the first eight games with a toe in
jury.
Yet he evolved into everything
49ers envisioned. Otherwise, tit
wouldn’t have lined him up in
Super Bowl against toughie guat
Max Montoya of the Cincinni
Bengals.
What lured Holt back to footl;
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anyway;
Some of his jobs didn’t pan out,
said. High interest rates at
drought ruined his father’s farm,!
was sold. He foresaw a limited ft
ture in repairing trucks for hist
ther-in-law. Fork lifting didn’t crea;
tingles.
“I didn’t know how, butsomehot
I wanted to get back and play it
game.”
Holt tried first to interest Unite
sity of Houston coach Bill Yeomai
But Yeoman learned from t|
NCAA that Holt had only one yea
of Division I eligibility remaininglx
cause he was already 22 years old,
“That kinda knocked me down
notch,” Holt said.
The only patch lay at a Division]
school. Holt could play four years
that level.
Holt tried Angelo State.
“I talked to the coach on fo
phone and told him how earnest
was. Either that cinched it or hem
in dire need of a player.”
Holt applied himself there t
blockers and books alike. He mai
II tackles and one sack in his fresk
man debut. He became an academ
All-American (3.25 GPA). He neve
lacked ambition or tenacity.
Straight out of high school, he
tended Wharton Junior College fc
one semester, a round-trip drive
60 miles. Back home at 2 p.m.,1)
drove 60 more miles to and hot
Houston to operate a fork lift,
made for a full day.
Holt knew the so-called real wort
before he entered the NFL. Hispei
spective is shaped by a backgrowt
of physical labor, rejection arc
tough times.
“It prepares a guy to roll withtii
punches. To never give up. It gist
you some resilience.”
Those thoughts sustained He
during rehab.
“I kept thinking I’ve comethisfai
It’s been damn hard to get here.h
traveled a different road. I dot
want this injury to stop me."
It didn’t. Nothing has. PierceHd
made it to the Super Bowl the hat
way. And the longest, most roum
about way on record.
Bengals deal with end of fairytale year
MIAMI (AP) — The Cincinnati
Bengals can’t accept a storybook sea
son without a fairytale ending.
The Bengals thought they had
completed one of the most dramatic
turnarounds in NFL history when
Jim Breech’s field goal gave them
the lead with 3:20 to play in the Su
per Bowl.
But San Francisco’s Joe Montana
fashioned a little legend of his own,
leading San Francisco on a 92-yard
touchdown drive for a 20-16 victory
Sunday.
“We came so close to the top of
the mountain and to lose this way
really hurts,” quarterback Boomer
Esiason said.
The Bengals lost in an uncharac
teristic way — their defense let them
down when it mattered most.
After Breech’s third field goal put
the Bengals ahead 16-13, Montana
drove the 49ers to the winning
touchdown with just 34 seconds to
play.
The nearness of a championship
left the Bengals with an empty feel
ing, despite their turnaround from a
4-11 record last year to 14-5.
“We were 34 seconds away from a
great victory,” Esiason said. “The
next thing you know, we’re using all
the losing cliches you can use.”
Safety David Fulcher, who came
within a couple of steps of knocking
down the winning 10-yard touch
down pass to John Taylor, sounded
bitter.
“Would you sound bitter if you
lost a game you thought you should
have won?” he said.
Cincinnati’s offense has needed
saves from its defense throughout
the season. The defense preserved a
season-opening victory over Phoenix
with a goalline stand, throttled a last-
minute drive by Philadelphia, and
used a pass interception in the clos
ing minutes to stop Pittsburgh and
open the season 3-0.
They had chances in the Super
Bowl, but let them slip away.
Cornerback Lewis Billups
dropped an interception in the end
zone in the fourth quarter with the
Bengals leading 13-6. Montana
cashed in quickly, hitting Jerry Rice
with a 14-yard touchdown pass on
the next play.
“It was up on me so quick,” Billups
said of the pass that went through
his arms in the end zone. “I still
think I could have made it.”
The loss left the Bengals 0-2 in
Super Bowl appearances. Only two
other teams have played in more
than one Super Bowl without a win
—Denver at 0-3 and Minnesota at 0-
4.
Coach Sam Wyche said he was
crushed Monday morning when the
reality of the loss finally hit him. He
said he turned on the television and
saw the celebration in San Francis
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actly how close we came and how
we came from a year ago,” he said
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MIAMI (AP) — A great final
I darter saved a bad week. And so
uper Bowl XXIil, shoved
briefly off the sporting world’s
stage by television pictures of an
gry young blacks, exited Miami
still a star.
For openers, the NFL turned a
tidy $16.8 million profit from the
game, which under the league’s
revenue-sharing plan, translates '
into a $600,066 bonanza for each
dub.
For seconds, overnight Nielsen
ratings showed that the game was
seen in 65 percent of American
households. Both were big im
provements over last year’s disap
pointing numbers.
But most important, Super
Bowl XXIII delivered drama
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the game, not for a mugging ir.
Miami.
“The events earlier in the wed
were and remain a real tragedy,'
said NPX spokesman Joe Browne.
“We were asked several time
what we —- the NFL — were
going to do about it.
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tinued, “that once the game was
over ... the tent was dosed and
the local leaders were in charge,
just as they are in charge, prop
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year.”
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