Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to Move the Chains episode of
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers First and ten podcasts, presented by Cisco.
Speaker 1: I Am with the People's titand George Kittle. Right after
Speaker 1: the Niners Solute to Service game, George, you were here
Speaker 1: with some families, some military families after the game. You
Speaker 1: started a tradition of hosting military families at Niners games.
Speaker 1: When did that tradition sort of start and why is
Speaker 1: it important for you to keep it going.
Speaker 2: I think it started. I'd have to ask my dad,
Speaker 2: but I appy sure. We started in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: and we've always just wanted to get back to the military.
Speaker 2: And there was a time where we sent a family
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl through the Niners military family that
Speaker 2: I had met at a recent Pro Bowl, and so
Speaker 2: we sent them to the Super Bowl, and we're like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's just kind of keep this thing going. And I
Speaker 2: think we've sent over We've done over four hundred tickets
Speaker 2: on the road at home playoffs, and so it's just
Speaker 2: really fun to be able to go to every community
Speaker 2: that we play in, to be able to send military
Speaker 2: members and their families to these games, just because I
Speaker 2: think football games are just such a fun experience. Kids
Speaker 2: have so much fun everybody that was watching football, So
Speaker 2: just trying to give them something fun to do on
Speaker 2: the weekend, but also show them how much how big
Speaker 2: Aer fans we are of them and how much we
Speaker 2: support them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you and the entire Kittle family treat these families
Speaker 1: to a forty nine Ers experience. What do you think
Speaker 1: those families take away from it? And what do you
Speaker 1: take away from these moments?
Speaker 2: You know, for them, all I hope they take away
Speaker 2: from it is that they have support from everybody in
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers organization and every football fan out
Speaker 2: there supports them, and hope they just have so much fun.
Speaker 2: What I take away from it is just being able
Speaker 2: to give back just a little bit, like a football ticket.
Speaker 2: To me, it's very easy for me to go out
Speaker 2: there and get that. I can, you know, get tickets
Speaker 2: for my friends and stuff like that. But to be
Speaker 2: able to give it to an entire military family, entire platoon,
Speaker 2: you know, whoever it is, It's it's easy for us
Speaker 2: to do that and just to show that gratitude and
Speaker 2: show that support to the military, who, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: doesn't always get highlighted in the ways that they need
Speaker 2: to and they need more people to, you know, go
Speaker 2: out of their way to support them. And so that's
Speaker 2: all I really care about is just give that extra support.
Speaker 2: And the fact that my family has my back doing
Speaker 2: it makes it feel even better.
Speaker 1: Well, George, you are the forty nine ers Flute to
Speaker 1: Service Award nominee this year, as of many years in
Speaker 1: this recent history. Tell me what this honor means to
Speaker 1: you this year especially.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean it's my fourth time being nominated, which
Speaker 2: is an absolute honor, And like the whole award for
Speaker 2: the entire league every single year, it's just all these guys,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's not just the nominees. There's so
Speaker 2: many players that go above and beyond for the military,
Speaker 2: like Christi McCaffrey does a ton for the military, a
Speaker 2: lot of guys in our team, but all over the league.
Speaker 2: Just a support that you see for the military. It's
Speaker 2: just so important and the fact that you know, every
Speaker 2: team does it, it's just awesome because there's so many
Speaker 2: guys out they're going above and beyond just trying to
Speaker 2: throw a little bit of support, trying to throw a
Speaker 2: little bit of gratitude and just showing as much love
Speaker 2: as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: Well, it's pretty clear that your support for the military
Speaker 1: is more than just a cause. It's clearly a passion
Speaker 1: for you. Is there a certain moment where you've realized
Speaker 1: how impactful you've been to the military community.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, I would just say, every family
Speaker 2: that I meet and meeting their kids and just a
Speaker 2: smiles on our faces, that means the world to me.
Speaker 2: And you know, win or lose, getting an opportunity to
Speaker 2: you know, come visit with them after games, it means
Speaker 2: a lot to me, just because I have no idea
Speaker 2: the things that they've gone through in their lives, you know,
Speaker 2: whether they're on tour, whether they've lost a loved one
Speaker 2: or something like that. And just five, ten, fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: of just talking to them about, you know, how they're doing,
Speaker 2: where they're from, putting a smile on their face. That
Speaker 2: that warms my heart and you know, I hope it
Speaker 2: does for other people who do it.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, thank you so much George for chatting with
Speaker 1: me today about your Saluted Service Award nomination. Faithful head
Speaker 1: over to forty nine ers dot com to vote for
Speaker 1: George for the Salute to Service Award this year. And
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2: Thank you. So yeah, all supportive,