With less than a minute left in the 1981 NFC championship game, the odds weren’t looking good for Joe Montana’s San Francisco 49ers. They trailed the fearsome Dallas Cowboys by six points as the quarterback rolled to his right, chased by a squadron of defenders, including the six-foot-nine-inch Ed “Too Tall” Jones. But Montana kept his cool, losing Jones with a pump fake before lofting a spiral into the gray sky toward the deepest part of the end zone—where the football landed in the outstretched hands of tight end Dwight Clark to put the Niners ahead for good. READ MORE