Editing Super Bowl XXIII (section)

==Aftermath==
This was the final NFL game coached by the 49ers' [[Bill Walsh (American football coach)|Bill Walsh]], as he retired from NFL coaching. After spending the next three seasons as a broadcaster for [[NFL on NBC|NBC]], he then coached [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] from 1992 to 1994. Walsh then returned to the 49ers' front office, first serving as the team's vice president and general manager from 1999 to 2001, and as a consultant from 2002 to 2004.

49ers center [[Randy Cross]] and Bengals wide receiver [[Cris Collinsworth]] both retired as players after the game and both subsequently became broadcasters (Cross on [[CBS]], while Collinsworth joined [[HBO]] on their show ''[[Inside The NFL]]''); though between [[1994 NFL season|1994]] and [[1997 NFL season|1997]], both Cross and Collinsworth would be employed as broadcasters for [[NFL on NBC|NBC]].

This was also the final Super Bowl that [[Pete Rozelle]] presided over as NFL Commissioner. [[Paul Tagliabue]] was selected by league owners as Rozelle's successor in 1989, taking over the post midway through the 1989 season.

The Bengals would not appear in another Super Bowl until [[Super Bowl LVI]].

On January 26, 2006, NFL.com ranked this game Number 1 on its list of the top 10 Super Bowls of all time.<ref>[http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9183194] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505202339/http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/9183194|date=May 5, 2007}}</ref> In 2019, in celebrating the 100th season, the NFL ranked the game as the 19th greatest game in NFL history.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NFL 100 Top 100 Games |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/nfl-top-100-games.htm |access-date=November 5, 2022 |website=[[Pro Football Reference]] |language=en}}</ref>