What is it about those eight seconds?  That's how long the play
took, you know. Eight seconds. From start to finish to mythic
image.  Joe Montana takes the snap. Rolls right. No one is open.
Montana under pressure. Keeps rolling. Releases the ball in what
seems to be a prayer, floating into open space at the back of
the end zone until ... suddenly, there are Dwight Clark's hands.
Reaching up. Grabbing the ball. Touchdown. The 49ers beat the
Cowboys.  Eight seconds in January 1982. Eight seconds to replay
visually on YouTube or on NFL highlights or on retrospective
television specials or simply inside your own mind, over and
over and over.  "I can never see it enough," Clark said not long
ago. "People always ask, 'Do you ever get tired of talking about
it?' How could I get tired of talking about that? It's a very
positive play that helped get us to the Super Bowl and kept my
name in 49ers fans' heads for 30-something years. I never get
tired of talking about it."  And they never will. "The Catch" is
the most m