MIAMI _ Kyle Shanahan was so excited, he lost regard for others. He was getting in the way. But who could blame him?
He was a 15-year-old watching his father pull the strings on one of the best offensive performances in football history. From the sidelines. In the Super Bowl.
He had been a ball boy for the 49ers, hanging around Steve Young, Jerry Rice, and Deion Sanders, whose throwback jersey he wore for more than a month straight after getting it for Christmas.
"I was always that annoying kid jumping in front of the media people trying to do their job, blocking the perfect shot as they would tell me, to 'Get the heck out of the way,' " Shanahan said this week.
He watched his father, Mike, dial up plays as the offensive coordinator for Young in a 49-26 thrashing of the Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX in January 1995. Young tossed a record six touchdown passes and San Francisco won its fifth Lombardi Trophy, adding to the organization's legend following Joe Montana's dynastic run while playing for Bill Walsh previously.
That 49ers championship was special because it wasn't a continuation of what had already happened. It was something new.
