Getting in to Candlestick wasn’t really that bad because people headed to the park over the course or 3 or 4 hours or so before kickoff. Getting out was the bitch, but that was true whether you took Muni or drove, and even then, it wasn’t THAT bad. The Coliseum and Oracle have a much better situation with BART, and…

Yeah the Stick was the most unaccessable stadium to public transit that I have ever seen. You had to drive.

But Cleveland and Buffalo appear to have good attendance, so who knows?

I wholeheartedly admire your full-throated schadenfreude. Seriously, no snark. That’s the good stuff. I can get behind such emotions.

Funny thing is, the Raiders play a mere 30 miles to the north. Regardless of the weather, the Coliseum is a jam-packed madhouse. Even during their down years, the stands didn’t look like what’s going on in Santa Clara. The Packers may as well play in Antarctica during the winter. Ridiculous conditions don’t seem to…

Yes, based on your scientific analysis of some viral photos taken in summer heat waves during historically bad losing streaks. The notion that 49er fans are based primarily in the city of San Francisco is laughable. In terms of numbers, a bigger chunk of their fans come from the cities and suburbs of the Peninsula…

49ers management deserves all the shit being flung toward it.

I think they’re at home smoking their glorious No. California sensimilla.

50 miles South, closer to San Jose, Silicon Valley, etc. That’s why they moved. Trying to be “hip” and thinking their S.F. and North Bay fans would follow them. Lol. S.F folk don’t EVER leave S.F, unless its Napa, up the coast, or to Tahoe. Visit the East Bay? South Bay? Those places may as well be on the other side…

For that matter, hell, Mooch wasn’t great, but he was competent. He made Jeff Garcia into a Pro Bowler, by god.

Mooch was a genius compared to most of those other galoots they’ve hired.

San Jose 49ers.

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George Seifert was 98-30 with the Niners, won two Super Bowls and got the team to five conference title games. I’d say that’s fairly competent. Hell, Mooch was competent too, but only to the tune of a 57-39 record, which is a winning percentage .288 better than four coaches over the past four seasons have combined to…

I tend to think you’re right, but it seems like the whole state of California is pretty much over the NFL. The college teams seem to still have some energy behind them, but I think a lot of the overall issues of the NFL (and I’m not talking about national anthem protests) has most of the pro fanbase in the entire…

“Their scheduling suggests an awareness of the issues, with its tip-toeing around early-season Sunday afternoon games”

Not like they have a choice. They don’t get any say in which weeks are home or away or which games get put on nighttime national broadcasts, and being a west coast team, their normal games are all…

“its only competent coach since Bill Walsh”

I don’t mean to sound flip, because for the fans the whole situation sounds like a tremendous clusterfuck, but won’t the place sell out if the team was better on the field? They would have sold out in Candlestick regardless, but in the new barn there needs to be a compelling reason. If they get better won’t they draw…

Steph- “Yo KD, I heard you sole’d out!”

I mean, I just don’t see how this doesn’t count as a win. The Raiders (actually) needed a new stadium, and public financing for stadiums is a boondoggle, so getting someone else within cheap plane ticket range to pony up for the stadium for them is actually the best realistic outcome for Oakland fans.