Football Painting Joe Montana "Too Tall" Jones famous "The Catch" play of the SF 49ers

This San Francisco 49er's painting of mine hangs in Levi's Stadium depicts one of the most memorable events in NFL history - the January 10, 1982, NFC Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.  

The story behind the painting.   The Cowboys defensive end Ed "Too Tall" chases a backpedaling Joe Montana toward the sideline, and seems certain to either send him out of bounds or sack him. But at the last moment, and after pump-faking to get 6-foot 9-inch "Too Tall" Jones to jump, Montana throw a high pass to the back of the end of the end zone to Dwight Clark for the wining touchdown.  Montana said that "Too Tall" Jones knocked him to the ground so he didn't see Dwight Clark make the catch.  "Too Tall" Jones reacted to the play by saying to Montana "You just beat America's Team".  Montana said to Jones, "Well, you can sit at home with the rest of America and watch the Super Bowl."

The 5 foot by 6 foot painting, acrylic on canvas  hangs in one of the hallways of the new e49er's Levi's stadium in Santa Clara, Ca.  One an earlier post you can see it photographed on the stadium's large video screen.  

San Francisco 49ers Levi's Stadium Owner's Suite with John Roberston Painting



These photos show one of my paintings in the owner's suite of the San Francisco 49er's in their new Levi's Stadium,  http://www.levisstadium.com/   I have 5 paintings in the new San Francisco 49er's Art Collection at Levi’s Stadium,  It is part of over 200 original paintings.  If you go to a previous post you will see one of my paintings shown on the large LED video display screen that are in the end zones of the stadium.    

My wife, http://www.lynnhanson.com/LynnHanson.com/home.html has 14 drawings also in the San Francisco 49er's art collection.

We traveled to the stadium a few days ago for the opening of the stadium with the 23 other artists that are in the 49er's collection.  We toured the stadium, met some really nice 49er people and had a great reception for the artists and the press.