How Displaced A 49ers Fan Are You?

For his service in the military.

But living in Syracuse NY is plenty far away enough.. more then I would like to be

Right now it is just a hair warmer than -40 outside. You walk out the door and it feels like the breath just got ripped out of you.

US Air Force, RAF Alconbury England 1982-86. Before cable, satellite, or DVR’s. BBC2 would play the best 2 games of the week, cut out all commercials and dead time between huddles. Each game would then be 1-1/2 hours long. I cried when I came back and had to watch all those commercials. Only the Superbowl was live, and started about 11pm.

Colombo, Sri Lanka! Downloading crappy video over a 256K link because we only get AFN lite (3 channels) and they usually play the east coast teams! I did get to watch the playoffs… which was amazing (Saints) and heart breaking (Giants) so close together. I’m still in mourning… sigh. Not sure I can even bear to watch the super bowl this year.

and have to deal with stupid Pats fans. However, now I can and do order Sunday ticket so I see every game. However, at my last unit I was underway with the Coast Guard. around 2002 it wasn’t so bad because we had Armed forces TV and email updates on the scores while out at sea (I was on one of the bigger Coast Guard boats that actually gets underway for 3-6 months at a time). However, 1999 -2002 we had none of that and I had to stream a sports HF signal just to get the scores and couldn’t listen or follow the games at all as we did not have any connectivity of any kind other than HF radio. hated that because it was the last time before this year the 9ers were any good.

In 94-95 I was deployed to Kuwait and sitting about 8 clicks East of the border, so our only updates were the occasional Armed Forces Radio scores in the morning generally on monday morning. Some even had pools and updated as they could.
In 99 I was deployed to Greece/Kosovo/Macedonia and we got sporadic updates on AFN Radio. I remember watching the SB at my home station in Grafenwoehr, GE (before and after the deployment) at 3 am and getting the morning off of work. Commander was a football nut, so we got lucky, of course it didn’t hurt that it was -30 outside at the time either.
Now, I am at Ft. Knox, KY and I subscribe to Sunday Ticket so I don’t have to just watch Indy and/or Cinci and the “game of the week”.

Is pretty damn far away from the Bay Area. How far? 10 hour differential. Needless to say I watch the games at night here, and primetime games only start at 3AM so they end as the sun rises.

The sport used to be extremely unpopular here but it is catching on, and you can already catch games on TV and bet on games. However, most of the time Niner games aren’t on, unless they are the primetime games.

Either way, I usually watch the games on my PC, and using NFL Gamepass helps me watch every single game and not worry about bad or laggy streams. It costs a lot but it’s worth every penny for me.

It’s still prettynlate for the west coast games but manageable. The night games are much tougher since they begin at 2am.
It’s not even close to the ones watching in Iraq, Afghanistan,…

Became a 9ers fan because of Jerry Rice

I grew up in Hollywood, Fl and moved to CT about 10 years Ago. I have always been of a fan of the niners since i was young because my Uncle is a huge fan in Fl but after “The Catch II” against Green Bay I’ve seen every 49ers game. BTW Connecticut is the worst place to be right now all Bandwagon fans for the Giants and Pats live here!

In high school, I used to watch not be able to watch the games but would rather click on the games on NFL.com and wait and watch the bars move up and down the field and read the play by play. Then I bought a Sirius radio and tried to listen to the games but couldn’t get a good signal in my house cause I live in the damn woods. So I used to sit in my freezing cold truck in november/december, listening to static-filled Niners radio. Thats when I grew to love Joe Starkey and now Ted Robinson.

Now I stream the games from websites I found, but the feed still isn’t great.

I’ve been a Niners fan since John Brodie was the QB, but have lived in NYC since ‘89. NYC is definitely a terrible place to flash red and gold. West Coast games almost never air here, even when the Giants/Jets aren’t on. At sports bars, the place is full of screaming yahoos in blue jerseys, and you’ll be lucky to find one tiny TV in the corner out of 15 that’s playing the Niners game. And of course, I heard about it royally after the NFC Championship Game. Still, in 22 years, my passion for the team hasn’t wavered a bit. Absence makes the heart go fonder, I guess.

Watching the Niners play in Tokyo

I know how he feels