News: PFT: Kyle Shanahan says today's players don't know about the 49ers-Cowboys rivalry

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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...rs-dont-know-about-the-49ers-cowboys-rivalry/

The Cowboys and 49ers will meet for the eighth time in postseason history on Sunday, but most of the players in the game probably don’t know that.

San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan, whose father was on the 49ers’ coaching staff when they played the Cowboys in three consecutive NFC Championship Games in the 1990s, says his current players don’t know about those games. And they also don’t know about “The Catch,” when Dwight Clark’s touchdown sent the 49ers to the Super Bowl after the 1981 season. And they certainly don’t know that the Cowboys beat the 49ers in each of the first two NFC Championship Games, in 1970 and 1971.

“Not at all,” Shanahan said when asked if today’s players know that history, via NBCSportsBayArea.com. “I wish I could say yes, but I mean, some of these players were born in the 2000s.”

Shanahan said the three great NFC Championship Games in the 1990s were a major part of his formative years.

“That was a part of my childhood that was just such cool football, because everyone knew those three NFC Championships, those three years, those were the Super Bowl,” Shanahan said.
 
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The 1994 Championship game was one of the worst moments of my life. It is forever ingrained in my memory as a dark day and if we don't get some redemption Sunday, it will sting even worse. So, yeah, I hope the damn players know what it means for fans, even if they could care less personally.
 
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Honestly I want our players focused on stomping through this NFC and worry about history later.

It means something to FANS. That's it.
 
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I was 7 or 8 in 94 and I'm 35....I barley remember those games. I wouldn't expect these younger guys to know about it. For the last 25 years we've been so irrelevant I don't think anyone outside of our division considers us rivals.
 
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links18 said:
The 1994 Championship game was one of the worst moments of my life. It is forever ingrained in my memory as a dark day and if we don't get some redemption Sunday, it will sting even worse. So, yeah, I hope the damn players know what it means for fans, even if they could care less personally.
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Like the current team we got out of the gates late. Had we not we would have smoked them. We almost caught up.
 
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