The man who made “The Catch,” which launched the 49ers’ Super Bowl years of glory, died of ALS on Monday.
Dwight Clark, who was 61, played nine years for the team, won two Super Bowl championships and was on the receiving end of the last-minute touchdown pass from Joe Montana that beat the Dallas Cowboys and sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982.
Clark announced on Twitter in March of 2017 that he had ALS, and said he guessed playing football may have been the cause of the disease. He had been fighting it since September of 2016.