49ers Leaving San Francisco - or just posturing?

Re: 49'ers Leaving San Francisco - or just posturing?

BYH,

There's an exit off Highway 101 to Candlestick!

 

Re: 49'ers Leaving San Francisco - or just posturing?

Blame Eddie DeBartolo for some bad non-financial moves as well. After all, wasn't he the owner who tried so badly to get the taxpayers to cough up new digs that he tried to count votes of the deceased in an attempt to push it through?

That man and Carmen "Make My Own" Policy are scum. Kudos to any diehard fan of the franchise, but excuse me for laughing at karma biting the the organization in the a_s.

 

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Man, I forgot about that voting fiasco. All DeBartolo's and Policy's scandals just seem to run together. Was that DeBartolo, too? What a freaking joke him and Policy, etc. were and are.

Sam, I'm completely with you on this. I despise DeBartolo and Policy, and their fraudulent "Winning with Class" bullsh*t. They are utter scum.

I got into an argument with 49'ers fan "Columbo" on here the other day regarding the 49'ers salary - cap cheating ways, specifically regarding the 1994 'Championship' team. I haven't had time to follow - up on his "I'm rubber, you're glue" comments to me, but that time will come.

Good to see some others who haven't fallen for the hype, either.

 

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I don't want to use the term "fraud" - it's thrown around this board entirely too much - but there was something very fishy about DeBartolo and Policy. When Policy was asked if he was mortgaging the future to get all those players under the cap in '94 and how he was paying all these players within the rules, Policy almost exploded at the media. Scum. Pure scum.

And DeBartolo? Good grief ... talk about inheriting Daddy's money and tossing it all out the window. One can't help being born with a silver spoon in one's mouth - don't most of us wish we were? - but one can avoid acting above the law when one has that kind of money and resources at his disposal. Good riddance. Yes, current ownership is a bunch of skinflints and have run that franchise into the ground, but to the best of our knowledge, the Yorks aren't criminals.

Whether or not Policy blatantly broke the rules and/or spirit of the salary cap can be debated forever. Policy splintered the spirit of the cap, but as to whether he out-and-out broke it I cannot say - if I were a capologist, I think I'd be working for one of these organizations that seems to have great difficulty crunch numbers instead of making the pitiful numbers in my checkbook work without constant fear of red ink.

But one thing is for certain: The way in which Policy threw money around sold that franchise up the river for years. So as far as I'm concerned, the Niners are experiencing the other side of the blade. Let them slip into the woodchipper.

 

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Move 'em to Boise. I mean, the WAC is big-time football now, so surely they're ready for a pro team.

Seriously, I'm not sure I fully understand how The L.A. wouldn't want a pro team. Could someone clue my dumb ass in?

 

Re: 49'ers Leaving San Francisco - or just posturing?

A) It's November. Sun's still out. ... I went to the beach on Sunday. I might do it again next Sunday. Who needs football?

2) Who needs football? We got 'SC if we want big-time football. We got UCLA if we want Triple-A football. San Diego's not *that* far away, really. ... We got every other sport, too. ... No NFL? Oh well, I'll catch the Lakers instead. I can watch Pats-Colts on hi-def anyway.

III) If the NFL did come, where would they play? ... Coliseum? Too ghetto. No way I'm trekking down there for the relocated Ain'ts or Niners. ... Rose Bowl? Pasadena would revolt with game-day traffic coming in Saturdays AND Sundays. ... Anaheim? Maybe. But Angelenos wouldn't claim that team, you can bet. ... New stadium -- where? Carson? The I.E.? Not a chance.

No NFL, no problem.

It's been 12 years since we had a team here. Ain't hurtin' the league. Ain't hurtin' us.

 

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The bringing-the-NFL-back-to-L.A. ship sailed a long time ago. Ain't happening.

USC's surge under Coach Fredo -- they're running a professional program, anyway, if Yahoo's Bush investigation is to be believed -- makes it more of a certainty.

They've already got a generation of L.A. kids who grew up without the league in their backyard, and I'm sure they can deal with another one.

And I don't have impirical evidence on this, but I've heard ratings in L.A. have gone up since the Raiders/Rams bailed.

 

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Actually, The 49ers are already in Santa Clara. They just play in San Francisco.

 

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It's logical that ratings would climb without the Rams & Raiders. I live in NYC, and I'm stuck with the Giants (who I hate, so I don't watch), and the Jets who I like but are always bad. We get the Jets and Giants every Sunday and miss the best games. I had to watch the Jets play the Browns instead of the Colts play the Broncos. Let them leave and I can watch the best games each week, which will boost ratings. I don't go to the games in person, so to me the NFL exists only on TV.

Put a team in LA and the ratings will go down, unless the team is a dominant Super Bowl contender.

 

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One side note should this happen (and I really hope it doesn't)--unlike the other most recent franchise moves (Colts, Cards, Browns), the helmet, which has always been one of my favorites, would have to change:

 

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I can't imagine an NFL without the SAN FRANCISCO 49ers. It would be like moving the Dodgers or the Giants or the Braves! It's unthinkable!

 

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Please get the apostrophe out of the thread title, for the love of God.