If you’re a 49ers fan, Dwight Clark is, and will always be, one of your heroes. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t a fan back in January 10, 1982. If you’re a fan now, Dwight Clark had something to do with it. Some 49ers fans hadn’t been born yet, others didn’t live in this country yet, but the team you love, the 49ers, was indelibly shaped by Clark, and The Catch back in 1982.
NBC Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco has covered the team for well over 20 years and through his career became very close to Clark.