At the end of the 49ers' Super Bowl against the Ravens, Jim Harbaugh didn't call Vernon Davis' number. Instead, Colin Kaepernick threw three straight passes to Michael Crabtree, all three passes were incomplete and the 49ers lost.
' number in the red zone and he delivered with a game-winning touchdown catch. The Catch 3, as it was called at the time. It was iconic and it was clutch.
The next year, at the end of the 49ers' Super Bowl against the Ravens, the 49ers were near the goal line once again. But this time, Harbaugh didn't call Davis' number. Instead, Colin Kaepernick threw three straight passes to Michael Crabtree, all three passes were incomplete and the 49ers lost. Davis never got a chance to close the Super Bowl the way he closed the divisional playoff game against the Saints."If it didn't happen, it wasn't meant to be," Davis said. "I always like to leave things in the past. You can only control what you can control. I think we put all the work in. I thought we worked extremely hard. I thought I did the best that I could to be prepared for that situation and that game, but it just didn't go our way.
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