I asked: Have you decided whether to buy the fishing boat you mentioned a few days after signing the deal?
“I haven’t gotten it yet,” Purdy said, “but I know at some point, either later this offseason or hopefully next offseason, I’ll make the purchase.”
Not such a big splurge for somebody who received a $40-million signing bonus, of course. But anything more flamboyant would be completely out of character. Amid the 49ers’ cost-cutting earlier this offseason and then the fair extensions for Purdy, Fred Warner, and George Kittle, it’s all about pragmatism around the 49ers these days.
It’s also about the kind of genuine — and quiet — emotion that Purdy experienced the moment he found out the deal was done, which happened while he was on the 17th hole at the Olympic Club’s famous Lake Course, playing with his wife and Jake Brendel and his wife.
“When we’re golfing, my agent texted me saying, ‘We’re getting close,’” Purdy said. “And then a couple of holes go by, and I look at my phone again and I had a missed call and he goes, ‘Dude, pick up the phone,’ from John Lynch. ‘IT’S DONE,’ in all caps. And so then that moment right there, my heart dropped and I was like, this is crazy, it’s happening.
“I just hugged my wife on the golf cart and gave her a kiss. It was a cool little moment, just us two, there wasn’t anyone else freaking out or anything. It was just us going like, you know, this happened and God is so good and we’re just thankful for it.”
So after all that was done, how’d you do on No. 18, Brock?
“Oh, I birdied, so that was good,” Purdy said. “But man, that was a special day, getting out golfing in San Francisco, like the city I represent for the Niners, and to be able to be out there and then all of a sudden get a call, it was pretty special.”