Joe Montana was asked this morning why he didn’t come to Candlestick Park for the farewell game. He used an analogy about loyalty that the Average Joe might understand.

“If somebody left IBM and went to Apple, if they were shutting IBM down, do you think that guy would go back and visit?” Montana said in a relaxed and entertaining interview with 95.7 The Game. “There’s something strange about athletics and what people expect you to do.”

In his scenario, Kansas City is innovative Apple while the 49ers are stodgy IBM. It’s not a perfect analogy but it shows that Montana still views what happened as a job firing and isn’t particularly sentimental about it.

“I don’t know,” he added. “I wasn’t always a big fan of Candlestick to begin with, even though I played there. It might’ve been the worst field we played on throughout the years. But we had great memories there, yeah. But you know what? I don’t live in the past much. They can say what they think I should do, but I got to do what I believe.”

Montana’s son Nick was playing in a bowl game with Tulane in New Orleans the Saturday before the farewell game – something completely unforeseen given Tulane’s wretched record a year earlier – and his entire family had gathered there.

Montana expressed another sentiment the average person can relate to.

“We were together for three days,” Montana said. “If I take a day and a half out to go to the game and do what I had to do and I get a day and a half with my kids for Christmas, it’s not that important to me.”

Montana also said that there were plans in the work for one final game at Candlestick, a flag football exhibition between the 49ers and “a big name team.”