After beating Giants, 49ers’ star fires parting shot: ‘Butt of a joke’

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle had never experienced the turf at MetLife Stadium — until Sunday.

After the Niners’ 34-24 win over the Giants , Kittle gave a review of the stadium in the Meadowlands. While he felt that the conditions were “significantly better” than expected — because the field was “all packed down and people have been playing on it,” he said — Kittle still doesn’t understand how the NFL can’t mandate it to be better.

“My only issue with it is, when someone’s field is the butt of a joke throughout all of social media constantly, on every NFL meme page, all that stuff, everybody jokes about how bad it is, I feel like, at that point, someone should just take a look at it,” Kittle said, via X/Twitter . “no NFL field should be the butt of a joke ever.

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