Rewind: Packers-49ers '98 Wild Card with Rich Hribar - Remember That Game

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Originally aired July 2024. Rich Hribar (Sharp Football Analysis) and host Thomas Emerick catch the BART over to Candlestick in January 1999 for an all-timer. The Swami of Konami is rooting for Steve Young here, second in the league in QB rushing at age 37. Garrison Hearst is carrying that load for the Niners today. However, Jerry Rice isn't getting on the board and Terrell Owens keeps is struggling. Green Bay bounced San Fran three straight years, will this be the fourth? This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Rich Hribar at Sharp Football Analysis: Author archive (Sharp Football Analysis) What We Can Learn: Converting Yards into Touchdowns (Sharp Football Analysis) 2024 Football Preview book (Sharp Football Analysis) More from the 1998 wild card between the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers Box score: San Francisco 49ers 30, Green Bay Packers 27 (Pro Football Reference) Garrison Hearst and Dorsey Levens absolutely eat on the ground Full game (NFL on YouTube) Terrell Owens caps it with the Catch II while Greg Clark and Antonio Freeman also find the end zone NFL Primetime Highlights with Chris Berman (YouTube) Steve Young and Brett Favre in a classic fourth-quarter duel HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest Sharp Football Analysis Author and The Swami of Konami Rich Hribar (@LordReebs) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Follow: Apple and Spotify Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.8	He catches that touchdown and you just see like all the eruption of emotion like come from him.
0:07.2	And it's like hard not to get involved with the way Madden and somewhere I'll even call it,
0:10.9	if you're not a 49ers fan or even if you're a Packers fan, like maybe you can go back and look at it now like less salty because of the rice thing.
0:17.6	Because that should because that play should have happened.
0:19.0	But you just appreciate like as a human being going through that like in that moment like what that probably meant to him
0:26.0	you know catching that pass it's january 99 packers at nineers this is remember that game the
0:37.0	podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey
0:39.4	and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:43.0	I'm your host Thomas Emmerich, and returning to the program is Rich Rebar of Sharp Football Analysis
0:47.9	Go grab their 2024 football preview.
0:51.5	We got the Swami of Konami on to talk about one of the original cheat code
0:56.1	quarterbacks. Steve Young. Yeah, I mean, this game was the like I said, kind of like a fulcrum
1:02.5	point for me. You know, I grew up in Cleveland, like I'm right outside of Cleveland and I never
1:07.1	had like anyone push the Browns on me, which is crazy because like such a brown city.
1:11.4	Like, you know, even, even though the Cavs have won a championship, you know, like if the
1:16.0	Browns win, like the city is going to like absolutely melt.
1:18.4	Like it's this place is such a Browns area.
1:21.1	But my dad was never huge into football.
1:23.4	So like I never had really pushed on me.
1:25.0	So when I first started watching football, the Browns would be on at one. And they would just, you know, run and play defense. The AFC brand of football was like run and play defense. You'd watch like this fist fight game. Like the bills had like a run there like where they actually were an AFC team that threw the ball towards the end there. But like in the mid 80s, it was like Kevin Mack, Ernest Beiner, pound the football. And then at four o'clock, when the Browns were off and the East Coast game was off, you know, you'd only get a one game. And then the 49ers would always be on. They'd always be like the 4 p.m. game, the afternoon game. And it was like watching a different sport like that version of the team you know so i got like indoctrinated into like you know like
1:45.2	how did i not love them as a kid, right?
2:04.5	Like the, you know, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and you know, Roger Craig and like all these dudes like it's just, it made me fall in love with football.
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