Super Bowl XXIX
at Joe Robbie Stadium
(Miami, FL)
Sunday January 29th, 1995
49
  
26

QB Steve Young set a Super Bowl record with six touchdown passes and WR Jerry Rice hauled in three scoring passes for the second time in his career in the world championship game. The 49ers stars led an offensive explosion that carried the team to a 49-26 win over San Diego.

San Francisco wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard as it took it just three plays following the game's opening kickoff to crack the Chargers' end zone. Following a FB William Floyd four-yard run and an 11-yard pass from Young to WR John Taylor, Young connected with Rice streaking down the middle of the field for a 44-yard scoring strike.

Following a San Diego punt, San Francisco was back in the end zone again after only three plays as Young, once again, challenged the middle of the Chargers defense, this time with a pass to RB Ricky Watters, which netted a 51-yard score. The Chargers made things close for awhile, however, putting together a 13-play, 78-yard drive that concluded with a RB Natrone Means one-yard touchdown plunge to make it 14-7 after one quarter of play.

The 49ers began to break the game open in the second quarter. They followed the San Diego touchdown with a 70-yard drive that culminated with a five-yard scoring pass from Young to Floyd. Two possessions later, following a partially blocked punt by RB Adam Walker, the Niners drove 49 yards for another score on an eight-yard toss from Young to Watters. K John Carney's 31-yard field goal with less than two minutes remaining in the half closed the margin at intermission to 28-10.

The Niners put the game away in the third quarter, running the lead to 42-10 on a pair of long drives that ended with Watters' third score of the evening, a nine-yard blast up the middle, and a 15-yard pass from Young to Rice. Rice caught his third touchdown of the night on a seven-yard toss from Young in the fourth quarter, enabling Young to break QB Joe Montana's record of five Super Bowl touchdown passes. Young was named the game's Most Valuable Player, while Rice turned in the second best receiving performance in Super Bowl history with 10 catches for 149 yards, while tying his own record with three scoring receptions.

  1st 2nd 3rd 4th  
49ers 14 14 14 7 49 Final
Chargers 7 3 8 8 26 Final

49ers - Rice 44 pass form Young (Brien kick)
49ers - Watters 51 pass from Young (Brien kick)
Chargers - Means 1 run (Carney kick)
49ers - Floyd 5 pass from Young (Brien kick)
49ers - Watters 8 pass from Young (Brien kick)
Chargers - Carney 31 field goal
49ers - Watters 9 run (Brien kick)
49ers - Rice 15 pass from Young (Brien kick)
Chargers - Coleman 98 kickoff return (Humphries to Seau pass)
49ers - Rice 7 pass from Young (Brien kick)
Chargers - Martin 30 pass from Humphries (Humphries to Pupunu pass)

• San Francisco became the first NFL team to win five Super Bowls. The 49ers assembled a 10-game winning streak after winning three of their first five games.

• Offense was the story in 1994. The 49ers set team records with 505 points (fourth highest in NFL history), an average of 31.6 points per game and 66 touchdowns. Quarterback Steve Young broke Joe Montana's NFL record with 112.8 quarterback rating, led the NFL in passing for the fourth straight year and was named MVP of Super Bowl XXIX.

• In the first week of the season, wide receiver Jerry Rice became the NFL's all-time touchdown scorer with 127, surpassing Jim Brown.

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