—a San Jose native who grew up watching ND’s own Joe Cool collect rings.

What am I missing here?

If they do build this thing in SFburbia, suggest it be named “Failure of Imagination Stadium.”

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Yeah, your post can be named “Failure of Common Sense” if you really thought anywhere near 100% of 49er fans traveled to Candlestick from within the City limits. Just wow . . . it’s closer to 1 out of 10.

Next time you do some research think to yourself how many season ticket holders actually live in San Francisco.

As of now the figures are about 7-8% of season ticket holders are from San Francisco

The majority of season ticket holders are up and down the peninsula.

Yea it sucks for those who live in SF and the north bay but the Niner Empire deserves an upgrade. The bay area will now be a part of the super bow rotation and rightfully so.

I’m with you bud. A state-of-the art facility on Treasure Island would be awesome. Too bad both SF and Oakland/Alameda Co. are suffering from an acute shortage of leadership.

Huge swing and a miss…you don’t know the area well at all.

9er fans come from all over the place, especially the South Bay, to 9er games. While some of them hail from SF proper, most do not. No one from here would call Santa clara or San Jose a SF suburb. San Jose is larger than SF.

SF is a great city, one of the best in the country, but it is not set up for driving…at all. The only city denser than SF is New York’s Manhattan Island. It is extremely hard to get in and out of the city. Building a stadium on Tresure Island = death…the bay bridge and ferries are the only way off…you’re insane for suggesting it. Going to a game shouldn’t be a huge headache before and after the game (and before this season during the game!).

Where they are building the new stadium is the heart of Silicon Valley. Finally we will have a stadium that is highly acessible and doesn’t take forever to drive home from. Light rail, CalTrain, and 3 different freeways not to mention 3 different large expressways nearby that will give us lots of options. By your logic, that is a lot less emissions from cars sitting idle for hours as they creep toward the 1 freeway that services Candlestick or on city streets as they make the trek to the Bay Bridge.

The only thing I request, as stupid as this may sound, is that at least some portion of the field from the Stick be brought into the new stadium.
Maybe the North Endzone. That field has seen some of the best players and plays that grass has ever known.

People will love coming here for Super Bowls and the Bay Area deserves it. Can’t wait for the stadium…the renderings really don’t do it justice…it is going to be one of the coolest stadiums in the league. The only lame aspect is that it has a great chance of becoming way too corporate…Candlestick is so awful that only diehards go, which means we have a lot as we have never been blackedout and we have had a rough decade. So stop dogging 9er fans!

SF to Santa Clara: 45 miles (!!!)
SF to Oakland Coliseum: 18 miles

You heard right: For SF fans living in SF, the Raiders’ stadium will be 27 miles closer than their own “home” stadium!

In this supposedly environmentally conscious city they’re going to have 65k people commute 45 miles to their new stadium, and back again, 10 times a year. That’s 58.5 MILLION person-miles traveled each year!

SF to Treasure Island (the one connecting to SF and Oak via the Bay Bridge): 6.2 miles.

Honestly, with Treasure Island in redevelopment mode already, we can’t combine forces of the 49ers, Raiders, SF, Oakland, the NFL and build the stadium in the coolest locale in the country, maybe the world?

What am I missing here?

If they do build this thing in SFburbia, suggest it be named “Failure of Imagination Stadium.”

So are they henceforth going to be known as the Santa Clara 49ers?

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No. Teams don’t always play in the city limits of their namesake…and in one case the same state.

See: Cowboys, Dallas (Arlington/Irvine); Giants/Jets, New York (New Jersey)

I am a Yankee fan in baseball and was thrilled my team used private financing since they rake in so much money anyway. To me its just the wrong economy for using public funds.
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Im sure the city will make its money back within 5-10 years in rent and events and all the business it will bring to the area… specially if they get a couple of superbowls in the next 10 years…

You gotta figure either the Raiders will share this stadium, or that they’ll wind up back in LA, at one of the two competing projects there.

As for Candlestick being the worst remaining venue in the NFL, it’s not very far to the place that’s tied for that honor. Oakland is one of the last few stadiums to still have a baseball infield to deal with for part of the season.

Why one should have to point that out to anyone when there is Wikipedia is beyond me.

Did Dennis Miller write this story? You lost me with the Neil Simon reference.

Do you sing show tunes too?

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He means “The Odd Couple”, or maybe “Lost in Yonkers” lol

I am a Yankee fan in baseball and was thrilled my team used private financing since they rake in so much money anyway. To me its just the wrong economy for using public funds.