Malcolm Scott was forced to watch his beloved 49ers play in Super Bowl XXIX from a small cell in Tulsa County Jail. He didn’t have his own television, so the 17-year-old watched the game though a tiny window into an adjacent holding unit.
His bed was a thinly padded mat on a steel bunk frame with the toilet just feet away. “The situation in itself was horrific,” Scott said.
But the game in late January 1995 went exactly to plan, allowing Scott to smile in a place of malaise. Steve Young threw six touchdown passes in an MVP performance.