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Dwight Clark, the former 49ers star best known for "The Catch" that won the NFC Championship Game in 1982, has died at the age of 61.

The men who were there Sunday - the 49ers from 1981, the franchise's first Super Bowl season - love to talk about "The Catch," to recall it fondly, but there is an almost unspoken fear factor.

What if it never happened? What if Joe Montana's fall-away pass does not thread that cosmic needle? What if Dwight Clark does not bound off that invisible trampoline and snag the ball with his fingertips?

Because of everything that The Catch set in motion - all those Super Bowl wins! - it's scary to think what would have happened i