By PHIL BARBER
During his generous session with the media today – separate Q&As with broadcast and print media – 49ers CEO Jed York was asked for his favorite Super Bowl moment. He went back to a time when he was a wide-eyed 7-year-old.
“Super Bowl XXIII, we had Bengals fans right in front of the suite (at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami), and they were taunting us with their ‘Who Dey’ chant when we were down 16-13,” York said. “I just remember: ‘Joe Montana’s our quarterback. We’re not gonna lose.’ And you watch ’em go down, and you watch that final drive and that throw to John Taylor, it was just magical.”
Follow-up question: Did young Jed taunt the Bengals fans right back?
“I didn’t,” he said. “We got out of the suite very quickly and went downstairs. And my grandfather (Edward DeBartolo Sr.) – always three-piece suit, always dressed to the nines – the security people didn’t know the building that well. And they took us into the wrong locker room, they took us into the cheerleaders’ changing room. And that was kind of an interesting experience for everybody. And then we went into our locker room and celebrated.”
This moment clearly had strong competition for a place at the top of York’s list. He remembers three Super Bowl victories. And one he doesn’t recall well, Super Bowl XIX in January of 1985, he spent on the lap of Jennifer Montana, Joe’s statuesque wife.
York was 3 at the time.
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Wonder if the oldsters covered Jed’s eyes ?
Did he get to see any
“pom poms”?
My favorite Super Bowl. I’m thankful for memories. I love this organization.
Razor …
my fav was the last one the Niners played in the Big Easy …
the 55-10 !
Dunno if it was fact or urban legend … but a story surfaced after
that one which had The Joe and a couple Niner buddies walking into a bar full of Broncos ..
The Broncos immediately started berating Joe and the entire team ..
Elway (supposedly) got up into Joe’s grill and proclaimed …
“…… We’re gonna kick your @$$ …”
Joe, then decided to vacate .. and just before he got to the door ..
he turned around to the “Horse Face” .. and said …
“….. We’ll see You .. on the field ! ..”
Sometime later, I recall an interview with Joe .. and he said …
“…. If I had more time .. I woulda run the score up to 100 !
It did my heart good to see Elway standing on the sidelines
with huge alligator tears runnin’ down his face !
And thanks to Elways patented last-second heroics, the final score of the Super Bowl is: San Francisco 55, Denver 7.
-Woo-hoo!
J Taylor -lethal!
Some kids have all the luck.
Too bad Jed grew up in the role of Shane McMahon as we all know what mom and pop did with the 49ers. DId the Yorks let the 49ers cheerleaders come to New Orleans, or was it too expensive?
Darren. I like turtles.
Darren, what drugs are you on, who is your dealer, are they expensive, and how much for a bulk purchase?
Everyone stop feeding the Troll. No true 49er fan would post the garbage he’s been posting.
Dislike all you want, just do it somewhere else.
We’re all having a good time. Join in or get lost.
Simple. :)
Adam,
for the gazillionth time stop responding to the virus and it will leave. You guys that continue to dialogue with “it” are partly to blame.
On a separate not, Kaepernick must be making a gazillion bucks. All the stores are filled with Kaepernicking shirts and selling out like crazy….
I saw something on televison in the last year that explained internet trolling. They said these trolls are not the sad, pathetic, under educated individuals. They are members of a underground cyber tribe that have their own sites where they go and compare notes on how they created havov on a blog. They are well educated cyber anarchist. they are the kind of people who create computer virus and the ONE AND ONLY way to get rid of them is ignore them for as long as a month.
That means EVERYONE. they said it is very difficult for sites to get rid of them. they are too computer savy but they will go away if ABSOLUTLEY EVERYONE ignores them. So starting now please ignore any trollers
They grow up so fast.
Why, it seems like just yesterday almost everyone on this blog was attacking Jed for being “Lucky Sperm” and responsible for the further ruination of the 49ers.
I was one of those people and humbly take back what i said about Jed. Though i admit in the begining with singletary, he didn’t give reason to that. I thought hiring internally for GM was a mistake given the team had done nothing playoff wise, but when he hired harbaugh i changed my mind cause of his track record and he was a offensive coach inheriting a good defensive team.