Sgt. Largent":1ecj9g8n said:
Kinda the same article reposted, but still funny.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... -improved/
What did the 49'ers think was going to happen building a stadium where it takes your season ticket holders that were used to taking a cab downtown in 20 minutes to now driving two hours?
I guarantee you what's going to happen is 50% of their season ticket holders are going to pick 3-4 games to go to, and broker the rest.........which will result in what you saw opening night, a lame crowd full of the other team's fans.
Faulty thinking on the bolded.
You are making the assumption that most 49er fans are from SF. They aren't.
More than 50% of the Season Ticket Holders at Candlestick were from the South Bay compared to somewhere in the teens in SF. While moving AWAY from the city, the team actually moved CLOSER to its season ticket base. People get this sense for some reason that the 49ers moved out of SF and into the boonies or something. They didn't. They moved into an area with a BIGGER population, a BETTER infrastructure, and most importantly MORE MONEY. The stadium is less than 5 miles from HQs for Google, Yahoo, Apple, Cisco, and many others. BTW...Candlestick and Levis are 45 min apart...not 2 hours. While peeps make jokes about the size of Santa Clara, what they miss is that the cities immediate neighbor is San Jose...the Largest City in the Bay Area by population, the 3rd largest city in California, and the 10th largest city in the entire nation.
The average disposable income per household in the Bay Area is some of the highest in the country. Now...will there be a lot less belligerent drunks, stabbings, and shootings? Yes...that crown may have been priced out of the building...and to be honest with 2 small boys I was much more concerned with the safety of my kids at a game than a potential homefield noise advantage.
It will get better though. Just takes time to become the new Season tix crowd.