New Forty Niners website
by SSC24 on Jul 17, 2009 2:09 PM PDT
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PrintI know that most people that visit Ninersnation also visit the Forty Niners official website. As many of you may already know, the website has been slightly altered.
Among the changes:
1) The site is now called 49ers.com as opposed to its previous name, sf49ers.com
2) At the top of the page, it reads "Official Site of the 49ers," as opposed to what it previously read, "Official Site of the Five Time World Champion San Francisco 49ers"
3) The background is black/dark instead of red and shows a picture that includes the Gold Rush, some "Faithful" drummers, and Frank Gore jumping.
The rest of the site appears to be the same, or even better than before, IMHO. But the changes mentioned aren't for the better, but for the worse. I'd rather the website be called sf49ers.com (calling it 49ers.com doesn't necessarily make it easier for idiots to get on the sire...who would want stupid fans anyway?) so people know that it is the professional football team that plays for San Francisco rather than some other team called the 49ers. The fact that at the top of the home page, it reads, "Official Site of the 49ers" is also stupid. Are we trying to forget San Francisco? How about our five rings? I understand the team got a new coach, new uniforms, a new team president and many other new things, but it's still the same five-time Super Bowl-winning franchise that's called the San Francisco Forty Niners. As for the background, why make it so dark? Why put cheerleaders on it? All it does is make it look more stupid. If they made it simply red or some kind of a mixture of red and gold, it would look much better.
These are just my opinions. Instead of necessarily judging them, I'd like to hear what the Forty Niner nation thinks. I've set up a poll so everyone can sound off on the website topic.
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors.
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you must be from san francisco...
caus your looking way too into this… I’m from san jose and have been a fan since 1993., I’ve been going out to san francisco to see games for the past 14 years.. why cant you just drive the 40 miles to the south bay.. its nicer out here anyway.
although i would agree...
with the 5 championship rings part..
Yes, I'm a lifelong San Franciscan...
So I’d have to disagree with you, dez4o8, regarding which area is nicer. Sfgfan, yes, it’s true that 49ers.com has always worked, but the site has always been advertised as sf49ers.com. It’s like the SF Giants. You always hear people on the radio or on television saying something along the lines of “visit ‘sfgiants.com’ now!”
I’m sorry if it seems as though I’m taking this too far, but I would like for my favorite football team to truly represent its city, rather than neglect it. I don’t think any fan living outside the city would understand this concept completely.
Dez4o8. Assuming you’re a SJ Sharks fan, I know you wouldn’t want the team’s site to misrepresent (or not represent) the city of San Jose. You would want the city of San Jose to be properly represented on their site. That’s the way I feel about the Forty Niners. Everyone knows the city they represent, but I believe management should take pride in representing it with individuality. It would be a lot more attractive to fans knowing that management seems to actually care about the team to such a great extent.
This is a horrible comment.
How can the 49ers “neglect” a city? I thought it was up to the city to figure out what it wanted to do. The city came up with a crazy redevelopment plan that if it ever even happened would take 20 years to finish.
Candlestick has to go.
This new stadium is awesome and will be much easier to get to. The weather will be superb and we will soon host a superbowl. Now, if you’d rather wait 20 years for SF to get its stuff together then go route for another team.
Goatfather, you're funny.
20 years, you say? Hosting a Super Bowl? I don’t care for any of those things. I only care about getting to and winning Super Bowls. San Francisco holds a special place Forty Niner history and is home to many football memories. It is where the team has played games since its birth. The Cowboys play in Irving, Texas. The NY Giants and Jets play in New Jersey. The Forty Niners are an organization of higher class than the other teams mentioned. That’s why I’d rather have the team in the City. But even if they do move, I’ll still be the same fan and support the team the same. I’ll always route* for my San Francisco Forty Niners.
*root
The last sentence is the point.
Besides tearing over the nostalgia that is Candlestick there’s no reason to not put full support towards this project.
So you don't care for watching a SB in California?
And you also don’t care if a stadium in SF will take 20 years to build?
by SportsChicken on Jul 20, 2009 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
SB in California
California is heavily populated. Even if there was a SB here, the chances of you getting a ticket wouldn’t be that high. I guess it would cool, but I am tired of it being in Florida like every year. Well, it at least seems that way to me
Go 49ers
I know a guy
I could get a SB ticket without much of a problem…….it’ll cost me a lot, but if it’s in Cali I’ll be willing to pay.
by SportsChicken on Jul 20, 2009 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
20-years...
… is probably an exaggeration, but I seem to recall reports saying it would take around a decade just to clean up the Naval shipyard. And as always, that’s assuming that funding exists and continues to exist during the duration of said cleanup.
Not necessarily the nostalgia, goatfather.
It’s more of a tradition thing. Candlestick has been home to the Forty Niners and has been the resting place of many memories (“The Catch,” for example). The field itself is named Bill Walsh Field. The street is also named after Bill Walsh.
I think it’ll take a long time to build a new stadium at Hunter’s Point, but who cares? Why is everybody (mostly management) so excited about a new stadium all of a sudden? Is it to make the fans forget the true state the team is in? Well, honestly, if we can look at winning first and a stadium second, good things will come.
In 1992, when the SF Giants were about to move to Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg, Florida, they were saved by Peter Magowan and a bunch of other investors. 3rd and King Streets used to be sort of ghetto-like and not a good area to be in. After the ballpark was built, along came many restaurants (Momo’s, for example) and the place began to thrive (in terms of business). The area was, in a sense, given a new identity. I believe that can be done with Hunter’s Point. There are tons of room for parking lots (No need to settle disputes with any amusement parks nearby). I believe creating a stadium there can be as good as the Forty Niners organization wants it to be. My main point is, though, that we should concentrate more on making the playoffs at a time like this rather than building a new stadium.
Message to management: Fans are usually unhappy when the team doesn’t win. When the team doesn’t win, the best remedy that you can give fans is not a new stadium, but a contender.
The area was, in a sense, given a new identity. I believe that can be done with Hunter’s Point.
Except you’re ignoring the idea that it could take years to get the stadium up and running at the shipyard, let alone “rejuvinating” or “fixing” the neighborhood that will surround it.
I’m not really familiar with San Francisco, but it doesn’t seem that Candlestick has done it’s surrounding neighborhoods very well in the last half century or so, at least nothing like what developed at 3rd and King Street. The area around the phone booth benefited from it’s proximity to downtown, public transit, and varying other factors that don’t exist building your stadium way out on the outskirts of the city.
Dude..
How can you not be excited for a new stadium? honestly. I’d be real happy if there was a new one in SF., but its not going to happen the plan is awful.. This stadium in Santa Clara is happening already so the more you hate on it the more you’re just hating your own team. So hop on the bandwagon already if you’re not already a “San Francisco 49ers” fan.
sfgfan
The reason “Candlestick hasn’t done its surrounding neighborhoods very well” is because it’s located at the armpit of SF. In fact, you can even say that the park itself is armpit hair. I mean, it’s just at the edge. You can’t go further than that. The reason Candlestick is disliked is because it cannot be an AT&T Park. The reason it’s disliked is because of its location. By wisely choosing a spot in the Hunter Point area, the Forty Niners organization can have a new stadium and also be a valuable contributor in recreating the land surrounding it, and allowing it to flourish with new business (A way to create new job opportunities in this bad economy of ours).
dez4o8: If the move occurs, I’ll still be a fan. Don’t get me wrong. But can I not express my feelings towards the move before it even occurs?
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by David Fucillo on Jul 20, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't get it...
If I’m not mistaken, the area of Hunters Point where the city is proposing a stadium is almost a stones throw from Candlestick Point. The only thing giving Hunters Point “potential” is the sheer fact that any development will be “new” development. Who’s to say that the city will actually be able to follow through with this new development? Heck, who’s to say that that the city can even continue to afford to clean up the old shipyard? And again, no one really knows for sure how long that cleanup is going to take.
I never set a timetable.
I only gave a proposition. Let everyone else deal with it and make it work if they want to.
No timetable =
No proposition.
I’d rather have a real stadium in Santa Clara.
Face it dude, the city of SF can’t give the 49ers a better deal than SC….It’ll cost way too much money and will take way too long to complete.
by SportsChicken on Jul 21, 2009 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Stadium in SF
It would be great to keep them in SF, but there are too many problems involved. Starting with a train wreck of local politics in SF that can’t seem to get their act together, a potential site that will be even more difficult to get to and from than the Stick, and the uncertainty of the redevelopment project at Hunters Point, I can’t see that site being viable. Santa Clara is a better situation, even if the location is not the first choice of many fans.
I don't know if is egomaniacal to reply to your own post but.....
After looking at the google map of Hunters Point, I have a question that maybe someone on here can answer. How close to the water is the stadium in the proposed SF plan? When I was stationed in the Navy close to Seattle, there were numerous passenger ferries that ran people back and forth around the Pugent Sound. If the stadium was close to the water, ferries could be used to bring people to the stadium site. There is plenty of room to put ferry docks along the shoreline. When I used to go to the games in the 80’s, we would ride a charter bus from a South Bay mall to the game. It would be the same, but with ferries instead of a bus. I don’t know if there are companies in the area that already have passenger ferries, but it would be an option to make getting fans to the stadium easier.
How close to the water is the stadium in the proposed SF plan?
If I’m not mistaken, the city is proposing the 49ers use the old Naval shipyard, so I’d imagine it’s right on the water (of course my knowledge of San Francisco, particularly that area, is fairly limited).
I don't know the specifics either.
My only question is why not explore the idea in detail and attempt to keep the team in SF, where it was born? Why was the stadium idea brought up? To keep fans into the team during a time of great depression, shall we say, when the team was suffering through 2-14 and 4-12 seasons. This is why the SB in California got so juicy all of a sudden. All I’m saying is that the team should concentrate on winning games before building a new stadium. Enough digression. Fans are smarter than that…
The Cardinals.....
…sucked when their new stadium was built (if I recall correctly).
Of course there were other factors that contributed to them getting their new stadium……
But the 49ers have a huge fan base, it’s not like people are going to stop going to games or something.
by SportsChicken on Jul 21, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Also...
… I have no numbers or anything to back this up, but I’m willing to venture that most of the 49ers’ season ticket holders (the people that basically fund the day-to-day operations of the team) are probably from the South Bay. Just the sheer amount of money down there makes me think this.
49ers trying to get a stadium in SF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_49ers_Stadium
According to this 49ers have been trying to get a stadium sine 1997. 12 years and nothing has been built yet.
Go 49ers
Why was the stadium idea brought up? To keep fans into the team during a time of great depression
The idea of a stadium was brought up because the 49ers just flat out deserve a new place to play. Making it an awesome fan experience is definitely a perk, but a team with 5 Super Bowls should not be playing at the dump that is Candlestick. The Giants have yet to win a World Series for San Francisco but were able to find a way to move out of the stadium. Santa Clara is just the path the 49ers have to take, as the city can’t promise them anything close to what Santa Clara is promising them.
That idea sounds so cool...
Fans being transported by ferries owned by the Forty Niners organization to the stadium! How sexy! I’d love to come up with creative ideas like this, but no one will pay attention. We’ll see what happens in 2014. Until then, unless something big comes up, I’ll keep my mouth shut about this topic.
I’ll keep my mouth shut about this topic.
Thank you.
by SportsChicken on Jul 21, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
?
I said “Thank you”
That was disrespectful?
BTW: Don’t make threats on the internet.
by SportsChicken on Jul 22, 2009 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a couple of questions.
1) How do you quote someone in a pink box?
2) How do you write a message (in gray, above your name) on your post (e.g. iaalexeeff has written “Go 49ers”)?’
Question 1: quoting someone
I’ll avoid making a juvenile comment about your first question.
When you reply to the comment, you’ll see a little quotation mark in the tool bar under the subject line. You see that? To quote something, just drag your mouse across what they said and copy and paste it into this comment box. So, below I’ve copied/pasted your first question
1) How do you quote someone in a pink box?
Then, highlight that and click the quotation mark. It should then look like this:
1) How do you quote someone in a pink box?
To make sure it worked, you can click the preview button immediately below the comment box
by David Fucillo on Jul 22, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Question 2: Writing a message
Click over to your profile and click on edit profile. Then, look for the box titled “Signature.” Type in what you want there (no swearing, nothing super long, etc…). Any other questions, let me know.
by David Fucillo on Jul 22, 2009 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions
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