There's definitely, you know, like you're just, you know, you're just willing so much for him because he's so beloved already, even at that point, because the resurrection had happened to her harbor, but like, yes, major skepticism that what was about to ensue was actually realistic.

It's January 2011, Saints at Niners.

This is Remember That Game, podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey

and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.

I'm your host Thomas Semmerich, and my guest is Melissa Jacobs, founder and managing editor at the football girl.

Melissa was there at Candlestick that fateful day.

Let's see how the catch three compares to the catch two with Trell Owens and Steve Young in the 90s and with Joe Montana, Dwight Clark in the 80s. How does the catch three stack up as a name? The worst name ever. Like there's one catch. I hated catch two also. Like there's one catch. And they don't, you know, they all, they, to me, that's Vernon Post. That game was just Vernon Post. I've never, never honestly until you brought it up i've never even

thought of it as the catch three for you know since i know they dubbed it but after you know two weeks

after the game that erased from my memory i mean it's such a different situation and you know

the catch number one obviously just kind of pulled it the franchise was a dramatic win over

the cowboys you know catch number two basically which again I shouldn't be calling it as I'm

you know given my thoughts on it but the Terrell Owens catch really sparked his Hall of Fame career like that was you know was a meaningful

game but that almost was a singular moment for him and then Vernon Davis you know in somewhat

similar fashion had been had some you know attitude problems of immaturity and, you know, but, but for, but the,

the Vernon Davis catch was just the signal that the downtrodeneers, at least were temporarily

over. There, so you had, you know, that you had that layered. You had his, you know, just,

just coming up so big in that game across the board. I mean, he had, I think, the 47-yard

catch to even put them in that position, get them in field goal range, and then to make that, and you

saw the emotion on his face. You saw him run up to Jim Harbaugh and just fall into his arms with

tears streaming because it was so, you know, to go from what he had been with some of his personality issues and then to that and then obviously again what it meant to the franchise as a whole.

The Trell catch and the Vernon Davis catch are in the road bucket. They aren't part of that old lore and they do have a lot of similarities between the two, both like break down crying and emotion

immediately following. So they're more of their own just separate thing in Niners' Nostellists.

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