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ger Matt Millen is a week removed from heart transplant surgery.And as he recovers https://www.49ersfanshop.com/Brock-Coyle-Jersey , he told Peter King of NBC’s that he hopes to make the most of the second chance he’s been given. He waited six months for a transplant, which he got on Christmas Eve.“I have not been spared for nothing,” Millen said. “I feel like I have more of a purpose now—I just have to find out what it is. I’ve got to figure out what my Holy Grail is for the rest of my life. I can’t waste this opportunity.“I know I am lucky to be here. When my doctor took out my heart, he saw how much it was damaged. It was awful. He said I must have tremendous reserve from training. That thing was so stiff and hard the doc didn’t know how it was still contracting to pump the blood.”The 60-year-old Millen said his transplant came from a 26-year-old male who died of a drug overdose, and that reality creates a guilt in some transplant patients.“No, not melancholy,” he said. “More of a feeling that I’ve been given an incredible gift. There is a purpose to it. . . .“Think of the thought he had to put into this https://www.49ersfanshop.com , to be a donor. He took the time to let it be known he wanted his heart to go to someone if he died, so they could live. What a gift. I’m going to figure out what to do about it.”Millen was even able to joke about his condition now relative to his football days, saying he remembered taking a shot to the chest from Washington fullback Otis Wonsley in the Super Bowl which was more painful than the life-saving surgery he just had.“That was painful,” Millen said. “This is more uncomfortable.”We wish Millen the best in his continued recovery, as well as send thoughts to the family of the donor, who gave Millen a second chance. The 49ers asked defensive end Nick Bosa about his controversial Twitter statements before they drafted him, but they say his tweets didn’t affect the decision to take him second overall.Team President Al Guido told Bloomberg that Bosa was asked about his praise for Donald Trump and scorn for Colin Kaepernick on Twitter San Francisco 49ers Customized Jerseys , but the team didn’t consider the issue in deciding to draft Bosa.“Not at all,” Guido said, via the . “It doesn’t mean we didn’t do background on the kid, doesn’t mean we didn’t bring it up and ask him the question, but look — if we’re going to get in a world where we’re not drafting Republicans or not drafting Democrats. . . . The way that I think about it is, ‘he’s a young kid, he had a perspective.’ That perspective is fine San Francisco 49ers T-Shirts , some of other stuff he did I think was a little insensitive and needs to learn from.”Guido said Bosa had good answers to those questions and the 49ers aren’t concerned.“Honestly, I spent no time worrying about it, I know John Lynch spent no time worrying about it, we worry about the kid himself, not necessarily his political leanings,” Guido said.Bosa said before the draft that he would stop tweeting about politics because he might get drafted in San Francisco, a liberal city. That’s fine if it’s his choice https://www.49ersfanshop.com/hats , but it’s not a choice he has to make. He’s entitled to express his opinions, and the 49ers were happy to draft him even knowing that some fans in the Bay Area may not care for those opinions.