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But it was, above all, Young's night of nights. He was brilliant afield, and then he, too, cried when it was all over, pent-up emotion gushing from him like water from a sponge. He hugged the Lombardi Trophy the way a sinking swimmer hugs a life preserver, and then he, not [George] Seifert, gave the postgame speech to the Niners, shouting in a voice made hoarse from signal-calling and celebrating: ''There were times when this was hard! But this is the greatest feeling in the world!''

--From "Superb" by Rick Telander, Sports Illustrated, February 6, 1995

Photograph by George Tiedemann

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