What do you think of the 49ers buying Great America?
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Great. Love to see the niners in Santa Clara. It would be good if they used the name San Francisco Forty Niners. New York Giants, do you think of New Jersey or New York? Can Candlestick be turned into real affordable housing?
happy to live in SF. good riddance crappy niners says:
i really dont care where their at. as long as they are gone from SF i hat them here.. they have brought on hate to SF from other areas becuase of them. they god they are gone. im a bay area native and never liked them. im a NY giants fan
If they want a stadium ... why should the tax payer be burden with another debt .... u want it .. u build it ... as for great america ... the place is over run with mexicans anyways ,,, thats why the sttendence has fallen off ... I think there are a few good high school football fields that the niners can play at ...
Let me start by saying that I'm really opposed to having 49ers leaving San Francisco in the first place. That said I think it is a bad idea if 49ers buy Great America. They will take hold of that and things there will go down hill. They won't be a "full time" owner of Great America and the park will suffer. They need to devote the money that they would spend on the theme park and put that into the team or finding a suitable location in SF.
If the 49ers want to leave San Francisco.....they should also leave the city name behind as well. They can't be honest by calling themselves the San Francisco 49ers if they don't even play here!
Seems like SF needs a Plan B. 49ers already got us royally while we were on the short list of Olympic Cities. It would've been great to have the Olympics in the City...what a shame! Moving forward, seems SF's Plan B could be to maybe attract a soccer team or double it as a tennis event - that would be fun.
They can stay here in SF or move but anything they decide to do will not help them become anything more than a mediocre football team. The only thing the 49res have going for them is their past. Thanks for the memories you guys and good luck!
That is why I like Green Bay Packers. The citizens of Green Bay own the Packers and the owners are the citizens. Revenue from the team goes back to the city and the community.
Last resort for San Francisco is to buy the San Francisco 49ers. Yes it is expensive now compared to when it was sold around 1978 to the Debartellos (spelling???) but even so, at least San Francisco does not lose the team. That would be a sacrifice for the City. Green Bay was lucky when they bought it out decades ago. They don't have this problem about teams leaving or threaten to leave them.
All these major professional teams from football to baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer and rugby, the owners along with the stockholders need to pitch-in in order to build a new highly advanced stadium. Cities not just in the U.S. and Canada but around the world as well. These rich owners need to realize that funneling out of city funds will reduce many benefits that could develop with these funds: health care and social services, deferred maintenance, better public transit, emergency services: fire and police protection as well as homeland security, to name a few. Stop being greedy and help your society.
What's is happening with the S.F., Hunter Points Stadium? Does S.F. still have a chance to keep the 49ers in S.F.? The 49ers should listen to the fans and keep the team in S.F., This is where they belong.
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