Sunday’s Super Bowl will be the most important game between the 49ers and the Chiefs, but it would take a lot for it to become the most dramatic. That title belongs to the Joe vs. Steve Bowl and the day 49ers legend Joe Montana played his first and only game against his old team.
The whole vibe at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium was bizarre on Sept. 11, 1994, as if the time-space continuum had gone sideways.
This was a grudge match in every sense of the word. Montana, 37, who had won four Super Bowl titles for the 49ers, including three Super Bowl MVPs, was in his second season with the Chiefs.
Young was in his fifth season as Montana’s successor in San Francisco — a controversial, fanbase-splitting decision that had created reality-TV worthy drama within the 49ers locker room. It also had made both otherworldly talented grown men and future Hall of Famers at times appear childish.
In hindsight, the transition was wrenching and remains a head-shaker.
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