Good article by Mike Silver with a bunch of great 49ers reminiscing about Candlestick.
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Lott: I was passionate about the fact that (Niners nose tackle and former Giants All-Pro) Jim Burt had come up to me in pregame warm-ups and said, "Hey man -- Phil Simms said you're washed up." I said, "What?" Jim said, "Yeah, not only that, but he says you can't run ... you can't do it anymore." I think it was that, and just the emotion of the fact that we stopped 'em at the end. Every ounce of what you do to win showed up, in a way where you wanted to let it out of every ounce of your body. If there was ever a moment where you felt like Mike Tyson ... I felt like Mike Tyson. I let all the rage and anger out and had a verbal assault. Phil realized what was going on and started coming back at me. I will say this, though: Who walked into our locker room later and sought me out and said, "Hey, man -- I don't know what happened out there, but I'm sorry it got to that point"? It was Phil -- he came in and checked on me and showed the class he demonstrates today on television. That was just two gladiators who had battled for a lot of years
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200...9ers-reminisce
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