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The 49ers drew an average home attendance of 54,398 in the 1981 season. The 49ers won Super Bowl XVI, defeating the AFC Champion Cincinnati Bengals 26–21. It was the first of five Super Bowl victories in franchise history, all within the next thirteen seasons.
Super Bowl XVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Cincinnati Bengals to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1981 season. The 49ers defeated the Bengals by the score of 26–21 to win their first Super ...
From 1981 to 1998, the 49ers had one of the most successful stretches of dominance in NFL history. Armed with Bill Walsh 's innovative West Coast offense , Hall of Fame level quarterback play in Joe Montana and later Steve Young , and a dominant defense, the 49ers would win five Super Bowls in 1981 , 1984 , 1988 , 1989 , and 1994 , and made the ...
Bengals lost Super Bowl 16 to 49ers in January 1982. The Bengals and the 49ers faced each other in two Super Bowls in the 1980s. At the end of the 1981 season, the Bengals, behind quarterback and ...
Miami Dolphins, 39 years – Lost Super Bowl XIX, 1984 season; Washington Commanders, 32 years – Won Super Bowl XXVI, 1991 season (played as Washington Redskins) Buffalo Bills, 30 years – Lost Super Bowl XXVIII, 1993 season; Los Angeles Chargers, 29 years – Lost Super Bowl XXIX, 1994 season (played as San Diego Chargers)
The 49ers playing against the Bengals in Super Bowl XVI. The 1981 NFL season was the 62nd regular season of the National Football League.The season ended with Super Bowl XVI when the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 26–21 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan.
The 49ers drafted an entire secondary in 1981 and went on to win the Super Bowl behind Ronnie Lott. The Chiefs, now in 2023 Super Bowl, also drafted an entire crew. Chiefs' rookie-rich secondary ...
The 49ers' run of five Super Bowl wins in 14 seasons (1981–1994) solidified them alongside the 1960s Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers and 1970s Chuck Knoll Pittsburgh Steelers as one of the modern NFL's great dynasties. [86] The 49ers finished with a 11–5 record, won the division, and made the playoffs in 1995. [87]