The San Fransisco 49ers are planning to move to a new stadium in 2012. Plans for the new stadium can be read about here:

http://49ers.com/pressbox/news_detail.p ... =PR%20News

The new stadium will be expandable and may possibly be part of a bid by San Fransisco to host the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

If these plans fall through the 49ers are considering a move to Santa Clara.

The 49ers current stadium is Monster Park, built in 1960:

whatever they do they need to put a retractable roof on the thing cos it's the windiest place i've ever been too, when i went (v atlanta falcons,opening game sept 04) i was sat in the lower bowl behind the sticks and @ half time i went up to the top deck to the seats at the very top to take a picture and i'm not joking when i say the wind nearly blew me down the stairs...very dangerous

Perth is the third windiest city in the world.

Nothing unusual...many times I have struggled to walk through driving wind...

Especially St Georges Terrace, the wind tunnel.

Looks like a college stadium.



A move to Santa Clara doesn't seem that significant. The Cowboys hardly play in Dallas, and the Redskins play in Maryland.


And Egan, turning this into a Perth thread. Tut tut.

Ian: shhhh. He has a medical condition. We don't like to talk about it.

Candlestick Park is a frigging eyesore I tell you. Not only is it situated on a windswept side of a hill a fair way out of town, it has no cover. San Francisco weather is notoriously unpredictable. Infact it has 7 difderent weather systems because of all the valleys. It can be 40C in summer 40 minutes away in Concord CA but can be as cold as 13-15C. That was why the Giants baseball team could not wait to get out of there.

The ground is not configured well for American football at the best of times. For Niners matches you get a whole section at the right of screen end zone where they cannot sell tickets because of the baseball configeration of the ground. And the outer side seats are all on temporary scaffolding, even if there is no baseball any more at the venue.
http://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/pack_s ... TX=8541698

San Francisco is the most expensive city in the USA. Rents are atrocious & all you get are complete butterboxes, often without car parking either. With Oakland across the bay attracting a more feral crowd consisting of mainly low-life criminals & murderors, the San Francisco crowd is far more upmarket and gentille, not exactly condusive to a passionate football audience. Many Niners fans come from places like San Jose Santa Clara etc etc in buses in any case.

I just got the Niners owner is not holding the city at ransom like the owner of the Denver Broncos did when I lived in North America. They had just won the Superbowl but the owner wanted the people of the city to fund a redevelopment of Mile High Stadium. If they didn't he'd move the franchise somewhere else. The referendum for the vote was one of the worst attended in the city's history, but it passed because fans feared losing their team.

Still they could probably still be called San Francisco if they played in the lower bay area. I think they train in the area The crowd would be less 'foo foo shi shi' and more Gold Rush!

JF

This thread does NOT have anything to do with bloody Perth Egan.

If you don't know anything about Candlestick Park the 49ers or San Francisco, why did you have to pipe up about bloody Perth being bloody farking windy!?

ARGH!!!!!!

JF

Relax...

I was just disagreeing about the wind factor being so unusual... and used personal evidence. Just doing what I have done for ages, changing topics

Geeze Internet forums are so easy to wind up...

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* 68,000 expandable to 72,000
* Cost $600 to $800 million US
* Planned completion 2012

Looks like potentially a larger, outdoor version of the Philips Arena, with the suites stacked on one side...

Most NFL teams are moving away from the old Baseball/football multi-purpose stadiums.

Places like Three Rivers Stadium have already been demolished, I guess the 49ers stadium is simply the next in line.

without checking i'm guess candlestick is the only one left??

Aloha Stadium, to a lesser extent. I think Shea Stadium also...

had a good think

Pro Player/Joe Robbie in Miami. But it's a more recent generation of dual/purpose stadium and less likely to be demolished in the forseeable future.

I find it really perplexing that so many large US stadiums do NOt have rooves or grand stands in them.

I know as a fact that San Francisco weather can often be pretty ordinary. Yet they build a stadium that is so open & provides spectators absolutely NO cover.

Considering that you are paying up to US$70 for a ticket, I think the least you could ask for is a bit of protection from bad weather.

JF