Micah Parsons Takes a Shot at George Kittle

Kittle apparently wore a shirt under his jersey that said, 'F--- Dallas."

Grant Cohn | Oct 10, 2023

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Micah Parsons took exception to something George Kittle did against the Cowboys this past Sunday night.

Kittle apparently wore a shirt under his jersey that said, 'F--- Dallas." After the game, Parsons became aware of the shirt and said that Kittle made the game "more personal than it had to be.

Parsons went on to say that the 49ers shouldn't want to play the Cowboys again -- that's rich, considering the 49ers own Dallas. But Parsons still had a good point about Kittle's shirt.

"I think Kittle wearing that shirt in the face of the Dallas players before the game had absolutely no class," said former sports columnist Lowell Cohn, who covered the 49ers from 1979 to 2016. "He brought the level of the game down. I don't care about Micah Parson's response, but I have problems with Kittle. He wants to make himself the center of attraction all the time. He knew what he was doing. Just play the game, and don't be disrespectful to the game. He was being disrespectful to the game. That's how I feel. I don't like what he did. And if Parsons was ticked off, I understand. That doesn't mean that the Cowboys could beat the 49ers the next time -- that's ridiculous. But if Kittle really did that, grow up. And I want to tell you something else. If one of Bill Walsh's players, Walsh would say, 'Go in the locker room and change your shirt. We don't go down to this level. Change your shirt or don't play in the game.' I know it. I've seen it. Wouldn't happen."

Published Oct 10, 2023

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.