Chapter 1: What documentary is Boomer discussing?
Bobby D calls me up and he goes, hey, man, you got to check out this great documentary. And I'm saying, which one is it? He goes, it's The Rise of the 49ers on AMC Channel. I'm like, why do I want to watch The Rise of the 49ers? I have no interest in seeing anything about the great Bill Walsh, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, all the Hall of Fame.
I need to watch this, Bobby. He goes, no, Boomer, you're in it. I'm like, I'm in it. He goes, yeah, you're in the third series. And, you know, they got you all dressed up in a nice suit and everything. They must have caught you somewhere. And they were asking you about the 49ers. You came off really well and all that other stuff. I said, I don't remember giving the interview.
I don't know when I did this.
Chapter 2: Why does Boomer initially hesitate to watch the documentary?
I have no idea. And he was like, man, it's so great. I said, Bobby. You do know that they're – I'm sure that they probably put this one game in there. It was the strike season. It was the second game of the season. We had the lead 20-16 at the end of the game, and we had the ball with 54 seconds left to go.
And they had three timeouts on defense, and they used all three timeouts, and then we had a fourth down, and we had to decide what to do. There was eight seconds left to go in the game, and instead of taking – a safety with our punt team. We decided to run an offensive play that they thought would eat up the amount of time. And as soon as I handed the ball off to James Rook, he was tackled.
There were six seconds left in the game.
Chapter 3: What surprising revelation does Boomer receive about his involvement in the documentary?
They throw a Hail Mary to Jerry Rice and we walk off the field losers. And then the next week we go on strike. And you don't remember doing this interview?
Every single detail of that.
Well, because it was so significant because half the team wanted to kill the head coach. And I had to talk a bunch of the players off the ledge about going after our head coach in the locker room. And it became a very intense time in Cincinnati around this game and going on strike because the media had asked Sam Weiss, do you think the players should practice?
And Boomer said that they would practice if the Bengals would give him footballs to go practice with. And I had just signed a new contract with the Bengals that August. And I was the highest paid player in the league at the time. And Sam, without knowing that I was talking players off the ledge from going full-on psycho on him in the locker room after losing that game to San Francisco.
He doesn't know this. He comes out and he says, well, Boomer's the highest paid player in the league. He can buy the footballs. And I was like, game on. Game on. So I went to Cook Sporting Goods in Cincinnati, got myself a football, got a hat that said coach on it, got a whistle and a clipboard, and took the football team out to LaSalle High School to have a practice.
And we practiced at LaSalle High School, and I invited the media to come because Sam said all this stuff in the media back then. And this got really intense. So I pulled everybody up midfield. I blew a whistle. And I said, okay, guys, we just really have to work on a few things. And we played really well against the 49ers. We should have won the game.
But we lost it because the coach doesn't know what he's doing. So we're just going to practice exactly how to finish a game and how to win a game.
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Chapter 4: What significant game does Boomer recount from the strike season?
And this is one of those situational things in football. So I said, give me the punt team out on the field and give me Chris Collinsworth as a punter. I said, Chris, I want you to get the ball, run towards our end zone, stand in our end zone until they get close to you, then step out, take the safety. The game will be over and we'll have won by two points. We'll win 20 to 18.
So I run the play, and I explain it to the media what we're doing, and they show the whole thing on the news that night and everything else, and it was game on. And I told Bobby D this story. I said, Bobby, the last thing I want to do is go revisit that because they actually do show this game. Oh, wow.
Chapter 5: What was the critical decision made during the final moments of the game?
They don't show the… Of course, they showed the Super Bowl 23, the comeback where he goes 93 yards and he says, hey, there's John Candy and all this other stuff. And he's trying, oh, Mo was so great because they also showed the Giants because he's one of my fanatic Giants fans. So he loves it because the Giants and Jim Burt knocked the crap out of Joe Montana.
And all the discussion about Lawrence Taylor, I'm sure, is in here. I'm like, why do I want to watch this? He goes, it was really great. It was great. It was awesome. I said, you know, listen, I lived it. I don't need to read it or see it.
That's amazing. If that would have happened today, like the highest-paid player, like who's the highest-paid quarterback in the league right now? Dak Prescott, $60 million a year.
If Dak Prescott – The only time it even came – the only time this even became an issue again after that 87 strike – I want to say it was probably about eight or nine years ago when Drew Brees was the highest paid player in the league. And I think Drew Brees was the president, the player president of the NFLPA or was a high ranking official of the NFLPA.
And he threatened that, you know, he would go on strike. There's no way the players will ever go on strike again because there's way too much money.
No, but just the idea of, like, oh, Boomer's the highest-paid player in the league. He can go buy the footballs, and then you go out there. I mean, imagine, like, Patrick Mahomes saying, you know, Andy Reid going, well, Patrick makes more money than me, so he can go coach the team. You know, it's funny.
Sam and I talked about this a lot, you know, after the fact, and Sam and I had a wonderful relationship, and I love the man. He gave me, you know, the no huddle offense, all the different things that and nuanced things that he would do with me and for me as a player and for our team. And we all like every day was a different day with Sam. You know, he was just so different and so unique.
You know, he was the one that kept the woman out of the locker room in Seattle.
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Chapter 6: How did the locker room atmosphere change after the game?
And I had to go outside and talk to the woman. I said, you know, I'll stand out here as long as you want. Because you deserve to be in there. You've already fought this fight. And there's no reason that you should be out here. But the reason Sam kept the woman out of the locker room was because of Zeke Mowat showed his winky to Lisa Olsen.
And the next thing we know, we have to make the statement in Cincinnati after a Monday night game in Seattle. Winky spot. Yeah, so it's just like crazy stuff like that. So I'm telling Bobby, I'm like, I am not watching this. I mean, I know how great Steve Young is. I know how great Joe Montana is.
I know how forward-thinking Bill Walsh is and George Seifert was on defense and everything that they did. And what he didn't realize is that Bill Walsh only became the head coach of the 49ers because Paul Brown... The owner and the coach of the Bengals did not select Bill Walsh as his replacement as head coach in Cincinnati when Bill Walsh was on the Cincinnati staff.
He selected Tiger Johnson as his replacement in Cincinnati as the head coach. Therefore, Bill Walsh went to the 49ers instead. So Bill Walsh could have been in Cincinnati, but instead he went to the 49ers with Eddie DiBartolo. I feel like I don't have to watch the rise of the 49ers because you just told me the entire thing.
Right.
Well, no. I told you from my perspective about what we were doing in Cincinnati. This thing is about the rise of the 49ers from 1981 to 1995 or so, or 1996 maybe.
Quickly, Zach in Massapequa. What's going on, Zach? Hey, man. How are you guys? Good. What's up, man? All right, Zach.
What's happening? So me and my buddy, we have season tickets for the St. John's game, and we went Thursday, and so we got those cards unbeknownst to us. And, um, we went to the game additionally on Tuesday and we got the cards.
We knew we were going to get the cards when we entered the state, uh, MSG and, uh, me and my buddy, we decided to have some fun with some of these resellers because they were buying tickets just to go to the game to get these cards. And, um, we acted as if we had no idea what they were. And we were telling them these guys that were buying them for $50 each in the stadium that, uh,
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Chapter 7: What was Boomer's response to Sam Wyche's comments?
Don't you think the schools will be thinking, maybe we can have these cards and sell them and raise money for the basketball nil program? Yeah.
I mean, someone's got to be paying attention over there because obviously this was a huge hit.