{"id":343940,"date":"2023-11-04T00:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=343940"},"modified":"2023-11-04T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T02:00:50","slug":"the-catch-part-ii-high-school-football-highlight-might-be-better-than-joe-montanas-famous-touchdown-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=343940","title":{"rendered":"The Catch Part II? High school football highlight might be better than Joe Montana's famous touchdown throw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every football fan knows ‘The Catch’…nothing has to be described or explained about Joe Montana’s game-winning touchdown pass in the 1981 NFC Championship Game to Dwight Clark. And while the stakes were not as high for Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Southwest\u00a0on Thursday night, the play might have been equally as good.<\/p>\n

If not actually better.<\/p>\n

In the fourth quarter of a tight District 16-5A Div. 2 game, Markus Luengo’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Carlos Luna gave Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Southwest (San Juan, Texas) a 21-20 lead over Sharyland. They would win by that tight margin to improve to 2-8 on the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while the Montana to Clark connection put the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, this one might actually have been the better overall play.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. Hear us out.<\/p>\n

The throw by Luengo, after niftily escaping a would-be sack, was similar to Montana’s. Both quarterbacks had to roll to the right to make a throw intended for the back of the end zone. But the catch here by Luna, barely getting a foot down in the back of the endzone, gives the Thursday night play a bit of an edge.<\/p>\n

Here’s the highlight play:<\/p>\n

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\"\ud83d\udea8\" SCORE ALERT \"\ud83d\udea8\"<\/p>\n

Sharyland 20
\nPSJA Southwest 21
\n4Q<\/p>\n

District 16-5A Div. 2#PSJAFamily<\/a> #PSJAProud<\/a> #txhsfb<\/a> #RGVFootball<\/a> #956Football<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/XAQTnSNKEh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PSJA ISD (@PSJAISD) November 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not to take anything away from Montana, however. He’ll likely pan out and have a decent career.<\/p>\n

Here is the famous NFL play between Montana and Clark.<\/p>\n

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Joe Montana to Dwight Clark in the 1981 NFC Championship.<\/p>\n

The Catch. 40 years ago today. (Jan. 10, 1982) pic.twitter.com\/VRDS3SGfYO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NFL Legacy (@NFLLegacy) January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also, the mascot for Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Southwest? They are known as the Javelinas, which is a kind of skunk pig<\/a>. That’s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, kind of cooler than a 49er…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Texas high school highlight play is reminiscent of ‘The Catch.’<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343942,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343940\/revisions\/343942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}