Terry Crews has become famous as an actor, but in his former life, he was a football player. Crews was an 11th round draft pick of the Los Angeles Rams, and bounced around the league through 1997. It was in 1997 when he decided to hang it up, and the San Francisco 49ers were part of the reason.
In the video above at around the 6:20 mark, Crews starts talking about his tryout with the 49ers in 1997.
“It had to be, it was 1997, I got a tryout with the 49ers.