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San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy is prepping for his first Tremendous Bowl look as an NFL starter. As a part of the lead-up to the matchup, the passer sat down with the media to debate his outlook forward of what would be the greatest recreation so far in his younger profession.
Sadly, Purdy needed to take care of some off-topic inquiries, one in all which had no inkling of a connection to his Tremendous Bowl preparations.
Slightly, it was a comparability to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Sure, the person arrested for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
For these in want of a short historical past lesson, Oswald was a former US Marine who took intention at JFK from the sixth ground of the Texas Faculty Guide Depository on a somber November day in in downtown Dallas.
Not precisely the character one would like to be in comparison with in any means, form, or type – significantly not the sign caller of one of many NFL’s most historic franchises.
This reporter apparently believed Brock Purdy resembled Lee Harvey Oswald and determined to ask him if it was the primary time he’s heard the comparability.
Brock Purdy isn’t feeling the Lee Harvey Oswald comp … ???? pic.twitter.com/zTGkWyEGCd
— 49ers on NBCS (@NBCS49ers) February 6, 2024
Purdy, perplexed by the query, tried to brush it off with out being impolite. He merely shrugged his shoulders and shook his head, saying he’s by no means heard the comp earlier than.
There are at all times a number of of those weird questions in Tremendous Bowl lead-up, although we’d’ve already hit our quota for this season.
Earlier this week, Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback on the opposite facet, was dealt a clumsy ask that referenced his father’s current DUI. He gave a equally uninterested response.
Hopefully we get to the duty at hand quickly and the main target reverts again to soccer.
Mahomes and Purdy will battle it out in Tremendous Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas in what’s set to be a extremely entertaining (and costly) NFL showdown.
Purdy’s 49ers had been the cream of the NFC crop, touchdown the highest seed within the playoffs after a 12-5 common season. He hopes to seize yet another win to cap his 2023 season and supply the Niners with their first championship since 1994.
That will likely be a tricky activity given the opponent, as Kansas Metropolis enters driving a five-game profitable steak.
San Francisco is listed as a two-point favourite on the time of this writing.
