Skip Bayless on The Catch | Cowboys vs. 49ers
Games with Names
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Skip Bayless is in studio! The legendary sports broadcaster is with us to go deep on one of the greatest games in NFL history: the 1981 NFC Championship Game aka "The Catch" between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers. We get into his life in sports media, his relationship with Stephen A. Smith, and a whole lot more.
(00:00) We kick things off. (02:59) Skip joins us on the couch. (52:22) We go back to 1982. (58:50) We get into the teams. (1:02:23) We get into the game. (1:33:19) We score it. (1:39:57) Do You Know Ball? presented by Liquid I.V.
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| 0:00.0 | January 10th, 1982, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California. |
| 0:09.0 | Montana drops back, rolls right, looks to the back of the end zone. |
| 0:13.1 | Dwight Clark leaps into the fog! |
| 0:15.8 | This is the catch! |
| 0:21.3 | That's a thousand! Unbelievable! Oh, that's a catch! That's a catch. |
| 0:22.3 | Oh, that's a catch. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to Games with Names. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Julian. |
| 0:29.3 | They're Jack and Kyler, and we're on a mission to finding the greatest game of all time. |
| 0:34.7 | And we got a great episode today. |
| 0:37.3 | We got the one and only Skip Bayliss. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you haven't already, drop a like and subscribe to Games with Names. Let's go. |
| 0:47.8 | Games with Names are production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Welcome to Games with Names. Today we are looking at the catch, the 1981 NFC championship between |
| 0:59.8 | the Cowboys and the 49ers with the Skip Bayless. Skip in one sentence, why did you choose this game? |
| 1:09.3 | Because it was the most pivotal game in NFL history. |
| 1:14.8 | It ended one dynasty, or it was beginning of the end, and it launched another that could be called the greatest dynasty ever, the Walsh, Montana, 49er dynasty. |
| 1:25.6 | Is this the greatest game of all time? |
| 1:31.2 | Remember, you're talking to a lifelong, diehard Dallas Cowboy fan, so it's hard for me to |
| 1:38.1 | go there emotionally, but spectator-wise, and I was there for this, as a columnist, I'm up in the press box. |
| 1:48.1 | It was the greatest spectator game I've ever seen because the 49ers, believe it or not, |
| 1:55.5 | turned the ball over six times and won the game. |
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