SANTA CLARA — National Tight End Day certainly has a devoted frontman in the 49ers’ George Kittle for Sunday’s league-wide, affably unofficial celebration.
After all, this pseudo-holiday started as friendly banter among a mic’d-up Kittle and Jimmy Garoppolo before last year’s season opener. Garoppolo merely tried firing up the 49ers’ tight ends, and now he marvels how it blew up into a NFL-promoted gag.
“It might not get as much spotlight, but the things the tight end position can do and what it does in all levels of football, it’s one of a kind and very unique,” Kittle said.