65. 49ers: Catching up with Dwight Clark, Part 1

49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco

NBC Sports Bay Area

Nfl, Football, Matt Maiocco, San Francisco 49ers, Sports

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

49ers: Legendary receiver Dwight Clark, who is currently battling ALS, relives the most iconic play in franchise history and makes a request of fans for their memories of that day.

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0:00.0	This is 12 time Olympic medalist Natalie Coglin.
0:07.6	Wondering who you should root for at the Paris Olympics.
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0:19.0	explain and I don't think I really talked about this with anybody.
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0:26.6	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.6	Welcome to the 49ers Insider Podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:38.6	Introducing your host San Francisco 49ers Insider, Matt Mayoko.
0:45.0	Nearly one year ago, in March of 2017, 49ers legend Dwight Clark announced that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.
0:57.0	Since then his physical condition has worsened but he is still the same person with the same appreciation for his place in 49ers history
1:05.7	and the same sense of humor. Clark is 61 years old and he is uncertain about what the future
1:11.6	holds for him and his wife Kelly.
1:14.6	Clark invited the 49ers Insider Podcast into his Capitola home recently to talk about his
1:19.7	football career and his new reality of living with ALS.
1:24.0	Dwight Clark is an unlikely hero for a professional football organization.
1:29.0	As a wide receiver at Clemson University in the late 1970s, he caught just 33 passes in his
1:34.7	college career. He never thought he would even get a chance to go to an NFL training
1:39.4	camp, but his post-college plans took a dramatic turn just weeks before the 1979 draft when 49ers coach Bill Walsh came to Clemson to work out Clark's college roommate, allAmerican quarterback Steve Fuller.
1:54.0	Clark was ready to head out the door and root to playing a round of golf when he answered the telephone.
1:59.4	It was Walsh.
2:01.0	He asked Clark to come to the workout to catch passes from Fuller and on that day Clark had a magnificent showing
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