speed. he found it while watching a college game in his hotel room. >> touchdown, jerry rice. >> but he had a problem. his old foe, the dallas cowboys, had their eyes on wide receiver jerry rice too. >> so the cowboys, they were up. and i'm saying to myself, maybe there's a possibility that i'm going to wear that star on my helmet and that i was going to be part of that dynasty but san francisco they traded with the new england pariots to get down to that 16th spot. they chose me and it scared me to death because all of the sudden i thought about okay they just won the super bowl against the miami dolphins. joe montana, ronnie lott all these great players, and where would i fit in? >> rice need not worry. talented players recognize talented players. >> i had never seen a young man

come into the nfl that could run the routes the way he could run routes. >> rice! to the one yard line. >> he was really really good. >> but really good was not good enough. >> steps up and throws. incomplete. >> three straight trips to the post season ended short of the super bowl when the 88th season got off to a mediocre start, pressure from eddie debartalow started to build. >> if you didn't perform the way you were supposed to perform, all the sudden you would see this guy that was like this mean guy and he was not as friendly you know because he was all about winning. >> the main thing is i don't like to lose. >> following back to back losses, the owner's temper

boiled over. >> we used to have a soft drink thing with a glass. i remember we came in after the game and the thing was broken. the glass was all shattered. mr. d had kicked it. he was pissed. bill said i'm done. [ bleep ] this guy he's nuts. no matter what we do i'm walking away from this at the end of the season. we won the next week and we beat the redskins and we just ran the table. we beat minnesota in the first play off game and joe rarely ever talks. after the game got everybody together and remember he held the football up and right now i'm guaranteeing that we are winning that game next week. >> the team made good on joe's promise. a win in the nfc championship game would send the 49ers on to

super bowl 23 in miami. it would be the first appearance on the largest stage for jerry rice. >> i always played those games here. if it means something to you, and you know what's at stake, i played scared. >> rice arrived in the locker room early, put on his uniform and then found a perfect cure for his anxiety. >> so i decided okay. relax on this table a little bit and i fell asleep. >> when he woke he played a dream game. >> to jerry rice. >> amassing a super bowl record 215 yards. >> the game also featured a drive which would add to the mythology of joe montana, a man drif on the win at everything. literally everything. >> you want to play tiddly

winks? checkers? you want to play chess? i'm going to beat you. he's not going to play you unless he's going to beat you. he's an ornry competitive guy. >> the competitive streak hid a sense of humor that only his teammates were allowed to see. >> he was a prankster. i remember him putting tiger balm in jocks and watching those guys freak out over that. yeah, he was a funny guy. >> joe didn't talk a lot and he didn't have to. joe was a practical joker. joe was the guy that if you went to the club and people were dancing, all of the sudden people were on the dance floor going oh my god. a stink bomb and it would be joe. >> so it makes sense with the super bowl hanging in the balance, the jokester would see a comedian. >> the 49ers have a long way to

go. >> in the famous story that joe comes in the sudden saying hey guys look at john candy on the other end. >> he needed a touchdown and had just 3:10 to drive his team the length of the field. >> think about this. this is the scenario. one mistake we lose the game. i remember joe montana came into the huddle and he started calling out two plays because they were two minute drills. everything. it's about fire works and you're moving. >> back to throw and over the middle. after he called out the second play, everything went completely quiet for me. >> back to throw. throws over the middle. >> i was so focused on being in that zone and i knew what i had

to do. >> then with 34 seconds left -- >> back to throw, montana, steps up throws. touchdown 49ers! >> john taylor made the catch and i heard the crowd. >> the 49ers have scored. >> what i take out of that moment was that joe realized that there is no hill worth climbing. >> that would be the final 49er drive orchestrated by coach bill walsh. >> i had this picture after the game where he came off the field and were just starting to go into the locker room. and bill was there and joe came and bill and joe are like this and eddie is like trying to like get into the middle of it. that picture said so much about that moment in time and everything that we had gone

through that year. and it's funny because bill and eddie became closer afterwards. >> the marriage that spanned ten seasons and spawned three championships was now dissolving. walsh and debartalo were going their separate ways but the decade of dominance was not over. george was tapped to be his successor. >> and the best and the worst of

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>> george went right down the street. he sold -- he used to sell hot dogs and cokes dur during the -- he would walk around and congratulate everybody. the janitor, the equipment guy. this is us. this is our sheriff. >> and george he was one of those guys that was -- he was a

quiet guy. but very superstitious. there were certain things he wouldn't do. he had a sweater that he would wear like on game day. and he also he would not walk across the 49ers logo. so every game every day before practice, you know the guys we always had bets you know? and, you know we would, you know, try to bet if he was going to walk across the logo. he would head directly for the logo and all of the sudden he would make a right or a left. >> the path to victory in super bowl 24 however, was straight ahead. the 49ers demolished denver under the superdome 55-10. the repeat was complete. another vince lombardi trophy

was now bay area bound. as the decade of dominance came to a close, the 49ers were at a cross roads, forced to make difficult decisions, letting go of key players. >> i knew it was happening but i also knew that it was the right thing. if you wanted to continue to have what you wanted to have at a certain level. >> in 1993 joe montana was trade ed traded. >> no matter how long i own this team, i will never have the relationship that i have with joe montana. >> in 1994, after waiting for years, steve young finally had his chance on the big stage.

>> montana, he was joe cool. everything was so precise on the football field. steve young, when he first came in he was more of a running quarterback and he was fast. he was really fast, you know? for a white boy he was fast. >> he dives. touchdown, 49ers. >> that was a love hate relationship with those wheels you know? most of the time when i was using them he would be like why didn't you just throw it to me? i could have saved you trouble. i learned over time he was probably right. i should have thrown it to him more than that. >> in super bowl xxix young threw it for 149 yards and three touchdowns to lead the 49ers to a victory over the san diego chargers. >> it can be more rich more wonderful, it can be more --

name it than mine is but it isn't like that ever again. >> 20 super bowls have now been played since that night. neither has been able to reach the summit again. >> when you're going for something that everybody else wants, and you have to be the last to stand, it's really really really really hard. >> the vince lombardi trophy is 22 inches tall and weighs 7 pounds. tiffany & co makes it out of sterling silver. the football is regulation size and filled with a tar like

substance to prevent it from being dented. thousands of men risk injury every year for a chance to hold it just one time. >> you want to take it and put it under your pillow. >> the lombardi trophy. i'll never forget it. i think when i grabbed it i wanted to hold on to it. i didn't want to basically pass it around to my teammates. >> i think it's symbolic. people love to climb everyest and put a flag up like i was here.

>> it is more than holding it ichlt it's like more than holding your kid. you're holding it with the community. you're holding it with the bay area. the great thing is that when you do hold it you're holding it with every person that has come to a niner game. >> which is why, after super bowl 19 john mcvay was surprised at what was forgotten in the 49ers locker room. >> i was just milling around seeing if there is anything left in the locker room and there was the super bowl trophy. and the janitor says what do you want to do with this? i said i'll take it. so here the game is over and i got the super bowl trophy. so i wrap it up in a towel and take it out and put it in my trunk and take it home you know? all the hoopla and now the

symbol that sits there all by its lonely self i took it home. >> did you think about just keeping it on the shelf? >> no. no. i had to immediately find eddie and put it in his hands. >> hey, smart thought. knowing what i know he would have found it quickly. smart move by john. smart move. >> those good decisions extend to the faithful and to the nation that helped will the team to victory. >> and that's really the reason why we play the game is for our fans.

>> gives me warm fuzzy feelings every time you share your moments with your fans. >> winning league mvp, winning division titles it doesn't define a town the way a super bowl does. we all understand that we went through that preparation and now it's over. we finally did it. it was a great sense of accomplishment by everybody in the city. you could see it on their faces, all the players. it was fantastic. >> one of the best moments in my life was in 1982 i had a lady who was in a wheelchair at the end of college, i was walking across the campus she was sitting there and she said are you ronnie lott? i said yeah. she says i have to tell you something. i have to tell you that you have

brought so much joy. your team, the way you guys play brings so much joy. so when you hold that trophy you hold that. you hold all of those people who walk up to you and tell you man, i love the way you play. i love that you gave everything.

>> there are very few places in the country that have passion for football like the bay area. and next year that passion will be on display for the world to see as the bay area plays host to super bowl l. >> it is a cultural phenomena. >> the golden anniversary will celebrate the bay area's championship tradition while

looking forward to the game's future. >> do it in our personality in our bay area way which is a little more out there. more progressive. it's more leading edge. we need to have some of that personality in our tone when we deliver super bowl l. >> when it's gone the goal is to bring it back again as soon as possible. it is right and appropriate that the super bowl should make a home in a place which holds so much of its history. owners with vision. >> i think al god rest his soul he's one of those guys that had the magic touch. >> coaches with genius. >> bill walsh is the greatest coach ever. >> players with passion. >> 16 when he ran out, he ran out. always wanted to be the best ever. >> and just enough nutty to keep

it interesting. >> there are some other stories, but again, this is a family show. >> on the next bay area revelations. >> and you have got put your bodies on the gears and wheels. >> supervisor harvey have been shot and killed. >> for generations the bay area has been an engine of political and social change in the united states. sometimes decades ahead of the rest of the country. but do you know how the summer of love planted the seeds of obama care? how two of the most powerful politicians of our time met at a protest? how the daughter of a communist helped save freedom of speech? the answers revealed may 2015.

>> some people worry about we're on the brink of a cyber arms race and i would say no we're not on the brink of it. we're in the thick of it. >> right now critical utilities at risk. computers turned into deadly weapons. we investigate cyber security. but first, super bowl xlix is in the books and the bay area getting ready for next year's big game. >> good evening, everyone. >> we're on a little late tonight because of the super bowl and what a game it was. at this hour the party is in full swing, for the patriots at least. pure joy for tom brady. he is the mvp.

on the flip side richard sherman simply stunned and late tonight, pete carol says he takes full blame for the questionable play call in the very end. what we saw one of the most shocking finishes in nfl history but the night is far from over. the celebration from boston and on the right, a lot of blues in seattle. >> the game clock now officially reset. next year the super bowl officially comes to the bay area. looking at a live look at levi stadium, home of super bowl l. >> mary ann has a look at the commercials, funnies and flops. first, terry at the super bowl in the desert. terry shut it down and the party is now coming here to the bay area. >> organizers say the big event next february 7 will be a combination of chest pounding and charity. in tempe, this family is

watching the super bowl but thinking already of the next one. >> we will go to that super bowl. >> what is it they'll see? >> golfing everywhere. you will have culinary food wine obviously the technology and again, i think just the entrepreneurial spirit of the bay area. >> the big part of that spirit will be the spirit of charity. >> so much is going back into the community. we will have the most philanthropic super bowl the nfl has ever seen. >> no predictions about how much money will be brought into the local economy but they do say that next year's super bowl will raise the bar for future games. nbc bay area news. >> the count down has officially begun. just 370 days until kick off in santa collar ray, which will be february 7, 2016. tonight was about the patriots seahawks and the super bowl

party. lots of folks had chips and salsa but how many of you had a former 49er player show up to watch the game with you? peggy, these former greats really excited about what's coming next year. >> it has been so exciting. i barely have a voice after all of this celebration but of course the second that trophy is handed over the next city's organizers get into full swing. we talked to some former 49ers here tonight who say super bowl l will be fantastic. >> not only being the super bowl, but the 50th will be crazy crazy. >> super bowl l expected to attract about one million people to the stadium. >> it will be a bigger super bowl if we're in it. >> former 49er went to the super bowl three times, famously catching a winning pass from joe montana. >> we got a great chance next

year. season starts off with everybody have the same record. >> guy macentire played from 1984 to 1993. >> and fans agree. >> i think either way if the niners are in it or not, which we're hoping that they are, i think it will just be something phenomenal for santa clara and the surrounding bay area. >> february 7, 2016 that is the date. if you want to get a jump on the tickets, better buy them early. >> okay. thank you. we have a complete wrap-up of today's game. >> tonight we begin a critical week of investigations into disaster preparedness. how well are we prepared or

unprepared for a major disaster. we talk with cyber attacks and the damage they can cause especially in the silicon valley. tony this is far beyond the recent hacks on target and home depot. >> it's a concern that hits home here in silicon valley and echoes around the globe. we're talking about threats to our transportation centers and our chemical plants and water supplies. they're all controlled by computers, all at risk to attacks from anywhere in the globe. >> hackers broke into the computers at sony entertainment. >> the concern over cyber security has made headlines. >> no foreign nation no hacker should be able to shut down our network. >> and has made its way into this year's state of the union address. >> we're making sure our government integrates intelligence. >> threats that have moved

beyond identity theft to the ability to hack into systems that control our vital infrastructure. you're looking at a 2007 game-changing government test. video provided to cnn by the government to department of homeland security use keyboards as weapons. it caused this generator inside an electric power plant to self-destruct. >> it ultimately proved and demonstrated on video that you can destroy physical equipment with a cyber attack. >> gary peterson worked for the department of homeland security. he helped design project aror rah. his resume includes time at the department of defense. he's an exert on cyber security and the risks to our country's critical infrastructure. >> it's those systems that if we lose them it's going to have a serious impact on our way of

life. >> and that's part of why many question the government's recent decision to release these documents. >> what that did is it now put all of that information in the hands of the bad guys who never had it. >> joe weis special iceizeds in control system security. thousands of pages of classified dpoumts documents including targets here in the bay area. >> our investigation is drawing attention to the government's decision and not including specific details in those documents. dhs has defended the decision in an e-mail saying quote, the documents were reviewed for sensitive and classified information prior to their release to insure the critical infrastructure security would not be compromised.

>> one of them had a picture to show where you would go to the substation in order to destroy the equipment. >> good morning, mr. chairman and members of the committee. >> weis has received about his tracking of a growing number of cyber events overseas and on u.s. soil. >> and while most of the recent headlines in the united states have focused on the successful cyber rates of sony. experts point to other concerns. hackers who successfully accessed computer systems attacked a power plant in korea and a steel mill in germany. >> some people worry if we're on the brink of a cyber arms race. i would say no we're not on the brink of it we're in the thick of it. we're in it. >> the successful cyber attacks of sony, target, and home depot

have resonated with lawmakers here in washington d.c. on capitol hill but so far significant change has run into a bit of a government roadblock with lawmakers struggling to understand how much change private industry and the american people are willing to accept. >> has government done enough? >> no. >> you answered fast. >> because they haven't. >> this lends itself to this kind of environment where we're all waiting for something to happen and then we'll get serious. >> this is a matter that we should be very concerned about. >> congress woman represents silicon valley and the south bay and was a founding member of the house homeland security committee. >> technology moves faster than legislation. >> most recently a bill by diane fine finestein stalled on capitol

hill. pressure continues to grow. >> there's a lot of things the private sector should do but since they're not we will have to put some requirements into law to leave them alone. >> back in 1998 president clinton issued a directive warning of the dangers of potential cyber attacks and then 15 years later in 2013 president obama issued another presidential directive, calling for stronger cyber security to protect the country's infrastructure and now two years later, washington continues to struggle to identify solutions and reach a consensus on how to handle hackers and improve cyber security. >> if we don't act we will leave our nation and economy vulnerable. >> sony didn't affect anybody's physical well being.

we're talking about affects people's physical well being and there are countries that want to do this. >> the bad guys are getting much more sophisticated. and they are moving faster like they're in a dead run and we are shufling along in taking baby steps. >> so the question of what will it take many fear the catalyst will come from a significant disaster. experts agree it may take one of those before we will accept the cost and loss of convenience that real cyber security requires. our investigation continues tomorrow night at 11:00 as we investigate the levee system. it's miles of dirt mounds that produce our clean drinking water. but can it with stand a clean drinking water?

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