“Howdy!” George Kittle says as he steps onto the podium on Nov. 24 in Green Bay, Wisc.
It’s how he begins every news conference, and this time he seems disappointed when no one says howdy back.
But it doesn’t seem like a howdy type of moment. The San Francisco 49ers have just lost 38-10 to the Packers, which has been interpreted as the death blow to their season. Everyone else is gloomy. Fred Warner calls the game “probably the worst I’ve been a part of.” Deebo Samuel Sr. doesn’t even talk to reporters afterward. The day is cold, the mood funereal.
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Except for Kittle. In a game full of lousy statistics, he
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