Just watched the first part of that Super Bowl on NBC's sports channel. The 1998 regular season featured two powerhouses in the NFC along with the Broncos, the defending Super Bowl champs, in the AFC. The Vikings, who were super-black (I think just two White starting o-linemen out of 22 starters) went 15-1 during Randy Moss's rookie season with Randall Cunningham at quarterback, only to lose to the 14-2 Falcons in the NFC Championship game.
The Broncos started 5 Whites on offense -- Elway, McCaffrey and three linemen -- and two LBs on defense, the irrationally reviled Bill Romanowski and Glenn Cadrez. The Falcons had just 3 White starters on offense -- QB Chris Chandler, one lineman, and a lineman who was introduced as the starting fullback in lieu of Bob Christian, who was injured. In addition to Tim Dwight they had Ronnie Harris as another backup WR. On defense they had Travis Hall and Shane Dronet as starting interior linemen, both very, very good. When the Falcons' starting d-linemen were shown on the screen, play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall said, "You don't hear much about them." Gee, how surprising, some things never change.
Dan Reeves started coaching the Falcons in 1997, and they became more relatively White friendly over time. By around 2002 they had 10 White starters, including five on defense.
Bob Christian was another of those "fullbacks" who should have been a tailback. The most carries he had in his long NFL career came in 2001, when he had 44 rushes for 284 yards, 6.5 yards per carry. Reeves himself was an "overachieving" tailback with the Cowboys in the 1960s who should have given Christian his due, but for the NFL he passed for one of the better coaches as far as overall fairness.
Tim Dwight was a rookie in that Super Bowl year. In '99 he led the league in yards per reception when he became a starter during the second half of the season, with 20.9 ypc (Keith Poole was second and Patrick Jeffers was fourth). The second half of the 1999 regular season was amazing, with White receivers running up and down the field and putting up big numbers, led by Jeffers, an unstoppable gazelle, the most fun to watch during my 40 years of closely observing the NFL from an aware perspective. But the next season the "uprising" was promptly squashed. In Dwight's case he went right back to being a backup for the rest of his career. He could have easily been another Wes Welker but with world class speed.