Sports! 1983 San Francisco 49ers knock off Redskins in NFC Championship: The Dynasty!

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1983 San Francisco 49ers

1983: San Francisco 49ers knock off Redskins in NFC Championship Game & the aftermath

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Here's a sketch of what the TL will be looking like:

(Chapter 1)
*1983 NFC Championship Game: 49ers vs Redskins.
*Fallout of the game.
*1983 AFC Championship Game: Raiders vs Seahawks.

(Chapter 2)
*1983 Super Bowl: January 22nd, 1984
*First Half highlights
*Second Half highlights
*Fallout of the 1983 Super Bowl Championship

(Chapter 3)
*Championship Parade in San Francisco, CA.
*Profile on 49ers HC Bill Walsh
*Profile on 49ers Owner & CEO Eddie DeBartolo, Jr.,

(Chapter 4)
*Profile on Joe Montana
*Profile on Roger Craig
*Profile on Dwight Clark
*Profile on Ronnie Lott

 

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Prologue: The Game that altered the NFL
Sunday, January 8, 1984
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It was a wild game between the San Francisco 49ers & the defending Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in the 1983 NFC Championship Game. The 49ers had possession of the football with less than two minutes left in the game. What would happen next was bound to have major ramifications & begin the NFC's dominance of winning Super Bowls.

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Chapter 1: Tick, Tick, Tick: 1983 NFC Championship Game
Sunday, January 8th, 1984
RFK Memorial Stadium
Landover, MD

Quarterback Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers running to make a huge play.
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We go late into the 4th QTR.......

The 49ers have the football & had been running the footbalk with running backs Roger Craig & Wendell Tyler: Craig rushed for 73 yards & Tyler got 14 yards respectively. Quarterback Joe Montana threw for 347 passing yards, 3 touchdowns & 1 interception.

Legendary 49ers Head Coach Bill Walsh called a timeout in discussing strategy: "Now look, we've got to throw the football as the Redskins defense continued to kill us all day and we haven't done diddily shit on offense in attempting to run the football. Looking at the offensive statistics, we only got 87 rushing yards......87 God damn rushing yards! Ok, Roger and Wendell, I need both of you to aggressively run the damn football.

Freddie, Eason, Mike, Russ and Coop, I need all of you to get open when Joe gets ready to throw the football. Ok?"

The Redskins had been frustrating the 49ers offense all day & they had assumed the 49ers would keep running the football until time runs out before overtime starts..... Montana, realizing the Redskins defense wasn't going to let up, angrily decided to do something about it "Forget this bullshit! I'll call my own trick play!"

Over at the Redskins sideline, Washington Redskins Head Coach Joe Gibbs was screaming at the defense about Freddie Solomon of the 49ers being left all by himself, "Somebody cover that #88 fella over there! He's not covered at all. STOP HIM NOW DAMN IT!" Before the Redskins defense can react or try to motion somebody to cover the wideout, Montana did a flea-flicker play: first by tossing it to Wendell Tyler, who then pitched it back Montana, who went very deep by throwing a Hail Mary pass hitting Solomon, who went 56 yards for the go-ahead touchdown.

(1983 NFC Championship Game)
San Francisco 49ers: 28
Washington Redskins: 21
4th QTR: 0:28

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The 49ers Defense
Sunday, January 8th, 1984
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Landover, MD
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Following the go-ahead touchdown by the 49ers, defensive coordinator George Siefert gathered the defensive unit over to circle around him on strategy: preventing the Redskins offense from scoring by any means necessary.

For the defending Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins, time was running out quickly & they needed Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann to pulling off another miracle with less than 13 seconds left in the game. Their high-scoring offense was frustrating the 49ers defense all day & the referees then called one particular controversial penalty against San Francisco, which infuriated Walsh, who threw down his headset "NOW THAT'S BULLSHIT!". It was 1st & 10 on midfield: Theismann got sacked by 49ers defensive tackle Fred Dean, which had pushed the Redskins backward to 2nd & 20 with less than six seconds left in the game plus no timeouts for the Redkins (Theisman hurriedly spiked the football in preventing whatever time from slipping away).

When the Redskins out of the huddle, Theismann realized he needed to go deep by going to either Charlie Brown (who caught the 70-yard touchdown pass), John Riggins (who scored two rushing touchdowns) or Don Warren. The 49ers defense rushed with four defensive linemen by forcing Theismann to hurry, rushing the pass....throwing an incomplete pass which hit one of the Gatorade drinks, the 49ers assumed the game was over & celebrated on the field, but the referees said there was just 1.7 seconds left.

It was 3rd & 20 when Theismann with all of his might, threw the shotgun pass, it was a dangerous throw when Pat Summerall of CBS Sports said "Theismann throws out of the shotgun, its a DANGEROUS THROW...... And it's intercepted. Going all the way to the endzone as Keena Turner of the 49ers scores the game-clinching defensive touchdown! There will be no repeat for the Washington Redskins because the game is over!" Linebacker Keena Turner ran it 74 yards all the way to endzone to clinch the 1983 NFC Championship Game by dethroning the Redksins & sending the San Francisco 49ers to their 2nd Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.

(1983 NFC Championship Game): Final
San Francisco 49ers: 34
Washington Redskins: 21

 

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Fallout from the 1983 NFC Championship Game Wild Ending
Sunday, January 8th, 1984
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Landover, MD

San Francisco 49ers Owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., speaks with players following the 1983 NFC Championship Game. ​

Inside the 49ers locker-room, it was an exciting time for the San Francisco 49ers, who had just pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NFL playoff history: dethroning the defending Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in the 1983 NFC Championship Game. San Francisco 49ers Owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., gave the team a pep talk inside the locker-room where he said he was proud of the team for banding together in spite of the difficult circumstances stacked against them. "Despite all of the experts saying this team couldn't handle the pressure. I want to say that we proved these experts WRONG and we're going back to the Super Bowl. In two weeks, we're gonna prove these experts wrong again by winning the Lombardi Trophy and shove their criticism down their fucking throats!"

 

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The 1983 AFC Championship Game: Raiders advance to the Super Bowl
4:00 PM PST, Sunday, January 8th, 1984
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles, CA

During the regular season, the Seattle Seahawks (who would join the NFC in 2002) had defeated the Los Angeles Raiders twice & everyone assumed the Seahawks would do something similar again in the playoffs. But once the two rivals met up again, this time in the 1983 AFC Championship Game: the Raiders weren't going to lose to the same team three times in one year & were determined to show the world, they aren't overrated!

In the 1983 AFC Championship Game, the Raiders outgained the Seahawks 405-197 in total yards; they intercepted five passes, plus jumping to a 20-0 halftime lead. Plus they also overcame four turnovers of their own en route to a 30-14 victory; Raiders running back Marcus Allen ran for 154 yards, caught seven passes for 62 yards & scored two touchdowns. This was the first playoff meeting between the Raiders & Seahawks.

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