The Catch Part II? High school football highlight might be better than Joe Montana’s famous touchdown throw

A Texas high school highlight play is reminiscent of ‘The Catch.’

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 on Thursday night, the play might have been equally as good.

If not actually better.

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.

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.

Wait a minute. Hear us out.

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.

Here’s the highlight play:

 

Not to take anything away from Montana, however. He’ll likely pan out and have a decent career.

Here is the famous NFL play between Montana and Clark.

 

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

Truth be told, kind of cooler than a 49er…