What an emotional ride it was, 25 years ago this month.
The football Chargers recorded the biggest upset in the history of the NFL conference-title game, winning at Pittsburgh as a 9.5-point underdogs to reach their first Super Bowl.
However, a great 49ers team was also headed to Miami, and oddsmakers favored them by a whopping 19 points in Super Bowl XXIX.
“Oh, my gosh, look at the weapons they had,” Billy Devaney, the Chargers director of player personnel at the time, said recently of a Niners offense that had led the NFL in scoring and sparked “best all-time” talk among NFL coaches.