Brock Purdy reacts to people noting physical resemblance between him, Lee Harvey Oswald
Off-the-wall questions for some of the biggest names in the NFL have become a consistent occurrence at Super Bowl media day. And San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy fielded one about an apparent lookalike.
That lookalike? Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot John F. Kennedy in Dallas in late November of 1963. The side-by-side comparisons have been popping up on social media, spurring one reporter to ask Purdy if he was aware of the physical resemblance.
He was not up until getting asked.,
“I haven’t, that’s my first time hearing it,” Purdy said.
Purdy was asked what he thought about it. He paused, then paused a bit more, and demurred. There was an air of general bemusement to the moment.
“Uhhhhhhhh, ehhhhh — yeah, eh, I don’t know,” Purdy said.
For those curious, there is a notable physical resemblance between the two men, but it’s also entirely understandable why Purdy isn’t in love with people pointing out his historical doppelgänger — one who killed one of the United States’ more popular presidents.
Plus, given that he’s one of two starting quarterbacks in the Super Bowl on Sunday, Purdy is probably going to be focused on other things, anyways.
49ers fans are out in force in Las Vegas
The San Francisco 49ers are taking on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday but apparently, their fans still have the Dallas Cowboys on the brain. At Allegiant Stadium’s Super Bowl LVIII Opening Night, 49ers fans were filmed chanting, “Cowboys suck,” while a media member with a Cowboys team polo walked by them in the stands.
San Francisco played Dallas this season, rolling the Cowboys in a 42-10 game. The 49ers also knocked out their NFC opponents in back-to-back playoff runs in 2021 and 2022. The animosity runs deep, even when there are bigger fish to fry.
Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday in Las Vegas kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS. It’s expected to be the most-watched program on television of all time. Last year’s Super Bowl audience ballooned with 115.1 million viewers.
The 49ers are back in the Big Game after four years and they’re hoping this is the trip that wins them a sixth Lombardi Trophy for the franchise. It’s been a long time coming and a difficult road to make it back, according to Kyle Shanahan.
“It’s very hard,” Shanahan said. “When you go into January every year to February, it’s just long. But you always feel it after, whether you lose an NFC Championship, whether you lose a Super Bowl. You ask anybody, whether it’s one of them, whether it’s two of them.
“After that it’s like, ‘Oh my God, that took so much and was so long to get there. How can you ever do that again?”
On3’s Nikki Chavanelle contributed to this report.