49ers tight end George Kittle got his first taste of football at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. After the game, he was asked by reporters for his assessment of the field."My only issue is with is, like, when someone's field is, like, the butt of a joke throughout all of social media, constantly, like on every NFL meme page, everybody jokes about how bad it is, I feel like at that point, someone should just take a look at it, and let's not make it a â?? no NFL field should be the butt of a joke, ever," Kittle said. That said, there were always be a worst field in the NFL, and that field will be the one that gets made fun of. Kittle would prefer that none of the field stand out from the crowd."I fell like all the fields should have a level of safety to it," Kittle said. "I just don't get, like, why there's not a standard for, â??Hey, you've got to pick between one of two turfs.' There shouldn't be 12 different turfs and 12 different grass fields, and then a couple guys have the same things. I just think that's weird."Kittle pointed out that it's not that way in other sports, noting that basketball players play on the same hardwood, and that...
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