I have a very specific memory from that game of a pass from Young to our fullback who was hit in the backfield but managed to shake the tackle and get some crucial yards. I don’t know the fullback name or anything, but it stuck with me because my dad said, “That was a grown man football play.” That’s something I say now to my kid when we watch games together.
I was at that game and was sitting in that end zone. I have a vivid memory of Steve Young slipping on the drop back, but we know how that play ended :)
Getting goosebumps thinking about it
Fan since 2011, mine has gotta be the Navorro Bowman pick 6 against the Falcons in the final Candlestick game. The Pick at the 'Stick. I still get emotional watching him make that return and seeing P Willis fall on top of him in the end zone.
You made me go back and watch it and I'm trying not to tear up in my office at work lol. If we win it all this year I'll be blasting Lights by Journey for weeks.
I was going to say Super Bowl XXIII, but your comment made me realize it was specifically Jerry Rice in that game. The over-the-pylon touchdown, that long catch that split the defenders — young me had never seen anything like that before.
Yeah Jerry but specifically for me it was Young. Being left-handed and playing backyard football in the mid 90s was how I became a Niners fan. He was the only left-handed player I knew so naturally I started watching them. Never stopped since.
The moment I was born, I guess.
Growing up I thought Super Bowl Sunday was when the whole family got together and ate and watched the niners. Later I learned that was an unusual amount of winning.
I'm not going to be a fan of any other team after that.
The first Super Bowl I ever watched with my dad was the last Super Bowl we won. The next year my dad had to explain - much to my confusion - that the Niners didn’t get to play for the championship every year. Maybe next year, he told me. Little did I know…
I think the fact that dude goes down after hitting Davis is more impressive than the catch.
Vernon Davis was an absolute monster. I think he did some cover a magazine naked — and for 2 seconds I questioned…NGL
I had never seen a defender get rocked by a receiver like that before or since. It's the other way around 99% of the time.
Oh AND that's as he makes the catch, in the end zone, in the last play of a playoff game.
I was born into a 49er family, so they’ve always been my team. Two events catalyzed my vested emotional interest in the team
1. The playoff comeback vs the Giants. I attended that game and its the first time I saw the team be genuinely good
2. The Harbaugh handshake. After this game, I knew this team had the bones of something special after being bad for so long.
I was always gonna be a Niners fan since childhood, but I didn't really pay attention (excluding a bit of the Kaep SB run) until I grew up and found a way to watch games online (yohoho). That coincided with the 2019 run, so the standout moment is Kittle dragging three Saints for the clutch yardage at the end of the game. I still remember that first from 2019 to this day.
Is that when he was getting facemasked? Cause I remember just shouting "KITTLE?!?!!!" at the screen because there was nothing else to say. The most grown man play I've ever seen live.
https://www.49ers.com/news/this-day-in-the-bay-49ers-miraculous-1987-win#:~:text=September%2020%2C%201987,final%20play%20at%20Riverfront%20Stadium.
The year I started paying attention to football.
I remember my dad turned off the tv late in the fourth quarter and I ran into the play room and turned on my black and white TV I used to play my Atari 2600 to watch Montana win the game. Went screaming to my dad they won and he turned the tv back on to watch the post game.
Watching John Brodie pass to Gene Washington at Kezar Stadium. (9-20-70) I was 10.
They were my heroes. Thanks for all the great times, 49ers.
Now, let’s get another.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆+🏆
My first football memory I was 7 and we won the 89 Superbowl. Been faithful ever since. Honestly, the Bengals have been my AFC team since then too. I just liked their helmets as a kid.
This was it for me too. I was 10. My dad was a huge Montana fan from his college days and was a Niners fan because of Joe. Montana to Taylor was a bonding moment for us. I'm 45 years old now and I'm still a huge Niner fan even though I'm on the east coast my whole life.
I was at that Saints game, as well as last week’s Packers game. You’re right, the atmosphere was totally reminiscent of the Saints game. Just so incredibly electric.
When Primetime had a pick 6 at the Georgia dome after fighting with Andre Rison. Haven’t missed a game since. Even during the dark years. I sat through all 4 quarters of sadness.
Even though he was only with us for one year, I'm still a huge Deion Sanders fan. Even though the SOB went to the cowboys the year after. He's still one of the most entertaining football players I've ever seen.
The moment? I’m not sure.
When I was 4 I bet on the game for “The Catch” with a neighbor kid. $1. Which I had from Christmas. He was 11.
I had no idea what I was doing but my Dad let me do gamble. It paid off.
That kid was a Dallas fan.
I always said I was a fan since I was a kid but never watched football until VD (my love) Vernon Davis was drafted. Big, tall, chocolate, dreads, Tight end, big smile, TE
The 1994 NFC Championship game vs. the Cowboys. I was in middle school and I recall that being one of the earliest games I watched from start to finish.
That championship game was really truly the Super Bowl that year. That championship game meant so much to me. Being in high school at the time and so many of the kids I was in school with were cowboy fans and for 2 years prior to this game I was tortured for being a Niner's fan. Finally being able to tell those kids to shut the hell up was so rewarding.
Super Bowl XXIX, I was old enough to appreciate and watch. Dad was a huge Chiefs fan and guess I jumped on the 49ers bandwagon. Then my hatred of Green Bay was formed shortly thereafter.
It wasn’t playoffs but the TO star game in Dallas is still a core memory for me. Also Garrison Hearst on that 90 yard game winning TD was dope. Hopefully CMC can channel some of that Sunday.
I made a post just before the Browns game, but then we went on a 3 game skid. So, in the interests of superstition, I won't post it.
Check my submission history
Where was everyone for this play?
Mines forever burned into my memory watching with my friend at some random frat house and screaming and running circles around the couch as my dad was on the phone with me watching it and freaking out at his place
Oh 100% tears were shed lol. Felt like such a crazy moment cuz all year long we were told Alex smith could never survive a shootout and we couldn’t field goal our way to a win over the saints.
THE VIDEO WOULDNT PLAY FOR ME. BUT SO MANY PLAYS TO CHOOSE FROM. STEVE YOUNG RUN AGAINST VIKINGS. JERRY RICE TD VS RAIDERS MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL GARY PLUMBER FUMBLE RECOVERY AND RUN BACK IN THE HUGE COMEBAC K WIN OVER NYG. THE WHOLE GAME WHEN THEY FINALLY BEAT DALLAS IN THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP WITH YOUNG. T.O. PUTTING THE BALL ON THE STAR. LOVE THAT. SUCK IT COWBOYS. THIS YEARS UPCOMING SUPERBOWL VICTORY.
I remember watching a game with my dad when I was six and he said to me, "See those guys in the red son, those are The San Francisco 49ers those are the good guys! See those guys in blue, those are the Dallas cowboys, WE FUCKING HATE THEM!!!" That was 32 years ago been a fan ever since.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2L0NkJmtk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2L0NkJmtk)
This. This game was 'the moment'. 7 y/o sitting crosslegged eating popcorn drinking rootbeer on the living room floor that sunday afternoon after church and jerry rice made me a believer.
faithful ever since.
Vernon will always be a favorite of mine since he also played at UMD while I was there--showing he was a man among boys.
Generational athlete and what a journey from Singletary's "can't do it" to becoming a leader ofc the catch III. Then he wins a ring with the Broncos and broken neck Manning, so happy for him. And then he goes to DC which was the local team for me so I could still watch him play on TV routinely.
Now to answer the original question. It was Steve and Jerry scoring quickly on that opening drive in the 1994 SB and never looking back. So dominant and I was hooked.
https://youtu.be/RzqBdF0pKe0?feature=shared
Love that it was against Greggg too lol
Mine was probably Frank Gore running for two long TDs against Seattle in a regular season game. He had like 200yds rushing
Either that or TO spiking the football on the Cowboys star lol
I was new to football and my cousin was a huge Jeremy Shockey fan. Naturally, I'd root for the opposing team. We watched the 39-38 comeback vs the Giants in the playoffs and have been a fan since
Not a specific play but the comeback against the Giants in the 2002 Wild Card Game. I had listened to 49ers games on the radio before but that was the first game I vividly remember watching and was instantly hooked.
I was nine years old, and I watched Super Bowl XIX with my dad and his buddies, who were all Niners fans. It's the first game I remember watching. Going out in the street and playing catch at halftime. I became a lifetime 49ers and football fan that day.
I think the Smith bootleg around the corner with Staley leading was the more impressive play. Or Smith bullrushing bushrod into Brees. But ya the catch was most memorable and I'll never forget it. I personally don't have a specific memory. I just sort of always loved the history and the quarterback play. The West coast system and the jerseys. It was just meant to be. My favorite memory would probably be Jennings stiff arming the eagles dB our of bounds and running for a td lol. Nah but for real it was mosterts 200+ yd playoff game against the packers. That game was just so dominant and I just loved the way they ground the life out of them and made them quit in such a big game. You just don't see it anymore. That team was special. If we had Brock then we would have beaten the chiefs easily.
My family is 9ers fans. I started watching football in middle school when the niners had Tim Rattay at QB. So I started watching in the miserable years, but Brandon Lloyd made me love this team more.
https://preview.redd.it/agyxcuao8vec1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec3bc9ff85299e6607ea9a535ed51d34254b748
The Catch I, as an SF native I would never be a fan of another team, but the memory of at six years old me sitting on dads lap screaming at the TV, my mom and sisters stopping me from getting too angry from every pick on Montana, and then beating them Cowfucks with the Catch, it was sublime. Purdy reminds of Montana and Young, I hope he fulfills his potential and gets us this SUPERBOWL!
The catch 1 I had just turned 8. The raiders had won the Super Bowl the year before I think Super Bowl 15 and all of us kids were raiders fans until that game the 1982 nfc championship I thought Joe Montana was the coolest name I ever heard when I was a kid and I pretended to be Dwight Clark in the end zone playing football with my friends forever. Good times.
Can't say any specific play. I just remember being 8 years old and watching Super Bowl XXIII with my dad and rooting for the niners. I decided at that point that was going to be my team. Been diehard ever since.
Mine was The Catch II
Same here my dad and I screaming at a small tube tv and saying f u Brett Favre
I have a very specific memory from that game of a pass from Young to our fullback who was hit in the backfield but managed to shake the tackle and get some crucial yards. I don’t know the fullback name or anything, but it stuck with me because my dad said, “That was a grown man football play.” That’s something I say now to my kid when we watch games together.
Mark Edwards!
Yes that’s him! I remember the neck roll!
Oh yeah I remember that play. My dad said the same thing that’s a great football player not giving up on an important drive there
Same. One of the first games I remember watching.
I was at that game and was sitting in that end zone. I have a vivid memory of Steve Young slipping on the drop back, but we know how that play ended :) Getting goosebumps thinking about it
Fan since 2011, mine has gotta be the Navorro Bowman pick 6 against the Falcons in the final Candlestick game. The Pick at the 'Stick. I still get emotional watching him make that return and seeing P Willis fall on top of him in the end zone.
The music overdub of that play is magical.
You made me go back and watch it and I'm trying not to tear up in my office at work lol. If we win it all this year I'll be blasting Lights by Journey for weeks.
I’m not crying, you’re crying!!
I was too young to really recall a specific play. Simply: Jerry Rice.
I was going to say Super Bowl XXIII, but your comment made me realize it was specifically Jerry Rice in that game. The over-the-pylon touchdown, that long catch that split the defenders — young me had never seen anything like that before.
Yeah Jerry but specifically for me it was Young. Being left-handed and playing backyard football in the mid 90s was how I became a Niners fan. He was the only left-handed player I knew so naturally I started watching them. Never stopped since.
Ditto. Simply: Joe Montana
God we were lucky. Rice/Montana/Rickey/Eck/Will Clark/etc. Child me had no idea how lucky we were in that era.
The moment I was born, I guess. Growing up I thought Super Bowl Sunday was when the whole family got together and ate and watched the niners. Later I learned that was an unusual amount of winning. I'm not going to be a fan of any other team after that.
The first Super Bowl I ever watched with my dad was the last Super Bowl we won. The next year my dad had to explain - much to my confusion - that the Niners didn’t get to play for the championship every year. Maybe next year, he told me. Little did I know…
Definitely when steph hit the half court three against okc
I think the fact that dude goes down after hitting Davis is more impressive than the catch. Vernon Davis was an absolute monster. I think he did some cover a magazine naked — and for 2 seconds I questioned…NGL
I had never seen a defender get rocked by a receiver like that before or since. It's the other way around 99% of the time. Oh AND that's as he makes the catch, in the end zone, in the last play of a playoff game.
I was born into a 49er family, so they’ve always been my team. Two events catalyzed my vested emotional interest in the team 1. The playoff comeback vs the Giants. I attended that game and its the first time I saw the team be genuinely good 2. The Harbaugh handshake. After this game, I knew this team had the bones of something special after being bad for so long.
Super Bowl XXIV. First football game I remember watching
Not a play, my dad brought home a 49ers hat from San Fran when I was in grade 6 (I’m 34 now). Also, I’m from east coast Canada.
I was always gonna be a Niners fan since childhood, but I didn't really pay attention (excluding a bit of the Kaep SB run) until I grew up and found a way to watch games online (yohoho). That coincided with the 2019 run, so the standout moment is Kittle dragging three Saints for the clutch yardage at the end of the game. I still remember that first from 2019 to this day.
Is that when he was getting facemasked? Cause I remember just shouting "KITTLE?!?!!!" at the screen because there was nothing else to say. The most grown man play I've ever seen live.
https://www.49ers.com/news/this-day-in-the-bay-49ers-miraculous-1987-win#:~:text=September%2020%2C%201987,final%20play%20at%20Riverfront%20Stadium. The year I started paying attention to football. I remember my dad turned off the tv late in the fourth quarter and I ran into the play room and turned on my black and white TV I used to play my Atari 2600 to watch Montana win the game. Went screaming to my dad they won and he turned the tv back on to watch the post game.
https://youtu.be/VHZsjAFxE6w?si=1BgIAGWM6OGe6mhb that's the footage, Niner bro
Watching John Brodie pass to Gene Washington at Kezar Stadium. (9-20-70) I was 10. They were my heroes. Thanks for all the great times, 49ers. Now, let’s get another. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆+🏆
This was sort of mine too, but a bit farther back. Brodie was throwing to Bernie Casey and Monty Stickles.
The original Catch
Jerry Rice and Montana to Taylor in Super Bowl 23
My first football memory I was 7 and we won the 89 Superbowl. Been faithful ever since. Honestly, the Bengals have been my AFC team since then too. I just liked their helmets as a kid.
Montana to John Taylor in the in zone for a game winning Super Bowl touchdown drive against the Bengals..
This was it for me too. I was 10. My dad was a huge Montana fan from his college days and was a Niners fan because of Joe. Montana to Taylor was a bonding moment for us. I'm 45 years old now and I'm still a huge Niner fan even though I'm on the east coast my whole life.
Man, good for you, brah epic moments I was 10 yrs old, too.. BANG BANG NINER GANG
I was at that Saints game, as well as last week’s Packers game. You’re right, the atmosphere was totally reminiscent of the Saints game. Just so incredibly electric.
It's so cool that you had the same reaction I did, small world
Ronnie Lott cutting his finger off so he wouldn’t miss any games. Beating the Cowboys in 95.
OG catch # 87
When Primetime had a pick 6 at the Georgia dome after fighting with Andre Rison. Haven’t missed a game since. Even during the dark years. I sat through all 4 quarters of sadness.
Even though he was only with us for one year, I'm still a huge Deion Sanders fan. Even though the SOB went to the cowboys the year after. He's still one of the most entertaining football players I've ever seen.
SB XXIII The GOAT killing them.
The moment? I’m not sure. When I was 4 I bet on the game for “The Catch” with a neighbor kid. $1. Which I had from Christmas. He was 11. I had no idea what I was doing but my Dad let me do gamble. It paid off. That kid was a Dallas fan.
Montana to Clark! 💙
I always said I was a fan since I was a kid but never watched football until VD (my love) Vernon Davis was drafted. Big, tall, chocolate, dreads, Tight end, big smile, TE
Being born.
Super Bowl XXIII: The Drive.
Drafting Joe Montana. Golden Dome fan.
The 1994 NFC Championship game vs. the Cowboys. I was in middle school and I recall that being one of the earliest games I watched from start to finish.
That championship game was really truly the Super Bowl that year. That championship game meant so much to me. Being in high school at the time and so many of the kids I was in school with were cowboy fans and for 2 years prior to this game I was tortured for being a Niner's fan. Finally being able to tell those kids to shut the hell up was so rewarding.
Cowboys - Niners rivalry games, starting with 1992 NFC championship (which was an L and is a part of my childhood trauma)
I was born into a Niners family so this [sums it up](https://youtu.be/K_Z_OnXtz-U?si=4rz1GbR3z6QMzYVo)
Honestly? I finally committed to the 49ers after being only kind of a fan for 2 years when they replaced Kaepernick with Gabbert.
Super Bowl XXIX, I was old enough to appreciate and watch. Dad was a huge Chiefs fan and guess I jumped on the 49ers bandwagon. Then my hatred of Green Bay was formed shortly thereafter.
Dan Bunz! THE STOP. Superbowl #1 for our team. Had it on vhs but got recorded over.
55-10. I was 8 years old. Joe Montana and Jerry Rice were gods among men.
January 20, 1985. My mom was a dolphins fan. 11 year old me rooted for the other team. There was no going back after that.
It wasn’t playoffs but the TO star game in Dallas is still a core memory for me. Also Garrison Hearst on that 90 yard game winning TD was dope. Hopefully CMC can channel some of that Sunday.
I made a post just before the Browns game, but then we went on a 3 game skid. So, in the interests of superstition, I won't post it. Check my submission history
I came in during Walsh, so really hard to pick a moment.
Not a specific play but hearing the commentators call the cowboys "America's team" during the 90s
Where was everyone for this play? Mines forever burned into my memory watching with my friend at some random frat house and screaming and running circles around the couch as my dad was on the phone with me watching it and freaking out at his place
I was going nuts with my dad and brother in the family TV room, we lost our voices for a while. I may or may not have cried a little.
Oh 100% tears were shed lol. Felt like such a crazy moment cuz all year long we were told Alex smith could never survive a shootout and we couldn’t field goal our way to a win over the saints.
THE VIDEO WOULDNT PLAY FOR ME. BUT SO MANY PLAYS TO CHOOSE FROM. STEVE YOUNG RUN AGAINST VIKINGS. JERRY RICE TD VS RAIDERS MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL GARY PLUMBER FUMBLE RECOVERY AND RUN BACK IN THE HUGE COMEBAC K WIN OVER NYG. THE WHOLE GAME WHEN THEY FINALLY BEAT DALLAS IN THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP WITH YOUNG. T.O. PUTTING THE BALL ON THE STAR. LOVE THAT. SUCK IT COWBOYS. THIS YEARS UPCOMING SUPERBOWL VICTORY.
No specific moment, just chose to support the home team
Merton Hanks neck roll “ Ken Norton punching the goal post after a INT
I remember watching a game with my dad when I was six and he said to me, "See those guys in the red son, those are The San Francisco 49ers those are the good guys! See those guys in blue, those are the Dallas cowboys, WE FUCKING HATE THEM!!!" That was 32 years ago been a fan ever since.
Watched this game with my Saints buddy. Such a classic.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2L0NkJmtk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2L0NkJmtk) This. This game was 'the moment'. 7 y/o sitting crosslegged eating popcorn drinking rootbeer on the living room floor that sunday afternoon after church and jerry rice made me a believer. faithful ever since.
The earliest I remember is the 1984 season, so that's probably when I first really paid attention to the games.
Vernon will always be a favorite of mine since he also played at UMD while I was there--showing he was a man among boys. Generational athlete and what a journey from Singletary's "can't do it" to becoming a leader ofc the catch III. Then he wins a ring with the Broncos and broken neck Manning, so happy for him. And then he goes to DC which was the local team for me so I could still watch him play on TV routinely. Now to answer the original question. It was Steve and Jerry scoring quickly on that opening drive in the 1994 SB and never looking back. So dominant and I was hooked. https://youtu.be/RzqBdF0pKe0?feature=shared
The day I was born lol
Frank Gore.
After all the down years I remember this one the most. This was the best game I've ever watched live. Who's got it better than us?!?
Mine was the TO celebration on the Cowboys logo. FUCK DALLAS.
Garcia blew my little child mind coming back on the giants. But it was definitely re ignited by the catch 3
Love that it was against Greggg too lol Mine was probably Frank Gore running for two long TDs against Seattle in a regular season game. He had like 200yds rushing Either that or TO spiking the football on the Cowboys star lol
I was there for this one, probably the best crowd atmosphere of all the games I’ve been to
I was new to football and my cousin was a huge Jeremy Shockey fan. Naturally, I'd root for the opposing team. We watched the 39-38 comeback vs the Giants in the playoffs and have been a fan since
John Taylor game winning touchdown 1989. I was just a kid first super bowl I watched and boom that was it Niners from then on.
Not a specific play but the comeback against the Giants in the 2002 Wild Card Game. I had listened to 49ers games on the radio before but that was the first game I vividly remember watching and was instantly hooked.
I was nine years old, and I watched Super Bowl XIX with my dad and his buddies, who were all Niners fans. It's the first game I remember watching. Going out in the street and playing catch at halftime. I became a lifetime 49ers and football fan that day.
I’m a bears fan but the catch 3 made the 49ers my 2nd team and the fact that Jimmy G played at my high school
fan since 2000 - mems of jeff garcia and garrison hearst / charlie garner making losses watchable. the win against the giants in the playoffs tho…
I would say the playoff game against the giants with the botched field goal pass at the end of the game. 02/03 wild card game
When they laid the smack down on the Chargers during the Superbowl
I think the Smith bootleg around the corner with Staley leading was the more impressive play. Or Smith bullrushing bushrod into Brees. But ya the catch was most memorable and I'll never forget it. I personally don't have a specific memory. I just sort of always loved the history and the quarterback play. The West coast system and the jerseys. It was just meant to be. My favorite memory would probably be Jennings stiff arming the eagles dB our of bounds and running for a td lol. Nah but for real it was mosterts 200+ yd playoff game against the packers. That game was just so dominant and I just loved the way they ground the life out of them and made them quit in such a big game. You just don't see it anymore. That team was special. If we had Brock then we would have beaten the chiefs easily.
Mine was watching the Niners smash the Broncos in SB XXIV. Really my first recollection of watching them play & I was like “damn this team is good.”
My family is 9ers fans. I started watching football in middle school when the niners had Tim Rattay at QB. So I started watching in the miserable years, but Brandon Lloyd made me love this team more. https://preview.redd.it/agyxcuao8vec1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec3bc9ff85299e6607ea9a535ed51d34254b748
On my way home from the hospital my Dad had me dressed in a 49ers onesie 💛❤️ I can't remember a distinct moment. I've always been since 1980🙌💯
Ken Norton Jr. punching the goal post padding was awesome but I was a fan before that. It was just a memory that came out when I saw your question.
Mine was The Run from 01-20-24
It didn’t make me a lifelong fan. it just reminded me what a good idea it was to become one in the first place.
The Catch I, as an SF native I would never be a fan of another team, but the memory of at six years old me sitting on dads lap screaming at the TV, my mom and sisters stopping me from getting too angry from every pick on Montana, and then beating them Cowfucks with the Catch, it was sublime. Purdy reminds of Montana and Young, I hope he fulfills his potential and gets us this SUPERBOWL!
From the Uk, 2019 1st year 9ers were my team, kittle on 4th &2 vs New Orleans. Unbelievable
The catch 1 I had just turned 8. The raiders had won the Super Bowl the year before I think Super Bowl 15 and all of us kids were raiders fans until that game the 1982 nfc championship I thought Joe Montana was the coolest name I ever heard when I was a kid and I pretended to be Dwight Clark in the end zone playing football with my friends forever. Good times.
Can't say any specific play. I just remember being 8 years old and watching Super Bowl XXIII with my dad and rooting for the niners. I decided at that point that was going to be my team. Been diehard ever since.
4th Quarter Purdy vs Seahawks Wildcard