Thrilling Super Bowl Games

Thrilling Super Bowl Games — page 5
6 high-powered offenses San Francisco had two-time Super Bowl winner Joe Montana at quarterback Cincinnati was led by that season's Most Valuable Player MVP quarterback Boomer Esiason But the game turned into a defensive struggle The score was just 3-3 at halftime The Bengals finally delivered a scoring boost when running back Stanford Jennings took a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter The 49ers didn't find the end zone until the fourth Montana hit star receiver Jerry Rice on a 14-yard touchdown pass with 14:03 left The play tied the game 13-13 However with just under four minutes to play Cincinnati's Jim Breech booted another field goal The game had been exciting But with a combined five field goals and only two touchdowns it wasn't yet memorable Then the Bengals kicked off to San Francisco A penalty on the kickoff pushed San Francisco back to its own 8-yard line Montana quickly got to work With a cool confidence he began moving the team down the field Most of the big yards were picked up by Rice who was in the midst of a record-setting day With just over a minute left he caught a pass and raced 27 yards to the Bengals 18-yard line It was Rice's 11th reception of the day Two plays later San Francisco faced second-and-2 at the 10 Only 34 seconds remained on the clock Montana dropped back to pass Receiver John Taylor broke open over the middle While Rice had been putting on a show Taylor had not caught a pass all game