No team in Super Bowl history loaded up to get there quite like the 1994 San Francisco 49ers. Jimmy Johnson’s rival Dallas Cowboys had won the previous two Super Bowls, beating the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game both times. Mike Holmgren’s Green Bay Packers were rising in the NFC. Free agency was new. Competition was palpable.
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Then-49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. opened his checkbook, adding future Hall of Famers Deion Sanders, Rickey Jackson and Richard Dent in free agency, plus Ken Norton Jr., Bart Oates and Gary Plummer. That all-in San Francisco team also traded up from No. 15 to No. 7 in the first round of the 1994
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