George Kittle: Made In Iowa
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle has developed into one of best -- if not the best -- tight ends in the NFL. Coming into Sunday's game against the New England Patriots, which the 49ers won easily, he was second in the league among tight ends in receiving yards despite missing two games. The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman has been following Kittle since his days at the University of Iowa, and he joins us to explain how the former Hawkeye went from a skinny, unheralded recruit to one of the best players in the game, the keys to his transformation, and why the gregarious star is still so beloved back home.
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| 0:30.0 | Sunday was every football fans favorite holiday, national tight end day. |
| 0:38.5 | And as the 49ers steamrolled the New England Patriots, they had another solid |
| 0:45.7 | performance from perhaps the holiday's biggest advocate, George Kittle. |
| 0:50.0 | There's Kittle, there he is. And inside the 20, just like that before being brought down by Phillips, |
| 0:57.9 | another gain of 15. The athletic Scott Doctorman has been following Kittle since his days at Iowa. |
| 1:04.1 | And he joins us to explain how the star tight end went from a skinny, unharrowed recruit |
| 1:10.0 | to one of the best in the game and why he still so beloved back home. |
| 1:14.7 | He could walk up to anyone and it could be the governor of the state and pick her up and put her over his head. |
| 1:20.6 | Or he could talk to the smallest kid on the sidelines. |
| 1:23.5 | The fact is that he loves Iowa. That always endears people from here that he hasn't forgotten his roots. |
| 1:31.4 | From one day on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:34.7 | And I'm under Skelto. It's Monday, October 26th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:39.7 | Tide in 12 over nothing. Let's go in a shot. |
| 1:42.7 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:46.8 | There was just something about the emotion and that moment. |
| 1:49.6 | No, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:50.8 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:53.8 | Are you okay? |
| 1:54.6 | I've never seen anything like that. |
| 1:56.0 | That's not good. |
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