Terrell Owens thinks back to a late September night nearly two decades ago in Arizona and wonders if he could have done something to prevent the injury that ended Steve Young’s career.
“Our time was incomplete,” Owens said in a recent sit-down interview that will air Thursday in The 49ers Insider Podcast and on NBC Sports Bay Area. “It was cut short.”
Owens had emerged the previous season as the 49ers quarterback's favorite target. Young threw a career-high 36 touchdown passes in 1998, and Owens was on the receiving end of a team-high 11 of them. Jerry Rice had nine scoring receptions after returning from two severe knee injuries in 1997.