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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Fans bail on the 49ers |
| 2016-09-13 |
| While the 49ers have been in the news a lot recently, it hasn't been for their rosy 2016 season prospects. Indeed, as the Chronicle reports, with sports pundits predicting a difficult year for the Santa Clara-based team, tonight's opening game against the Los Angeles Rams (yes, they moved back to LA) is notable for another reason: With season ticket holders desperately trying to sell their tickets and fans bailing in droves, it literally costs more to park at tonight's game than it does to watch it from the stands. According to the Chron, opening night tickets were for sale on Ticketmaster this morning for the price of $40. Levi's Stadium parking passes were selling for $50. With tonight the regular season debut for the team's new coach, The Lion King-loving Chip Kelly, one would perhaps expect healthy ticket sales. However, as fans continue to be less than enthused about the troubled franchise, the numbers don't exactly bear that postulation out. In fact, with ABC 7 reporting that Blaine Gabbert is starting at quarterback tonight, it seems the best selling thing about the Niners is back-up QB Colin Kaepernick's jersey. According to SB Nation, his jersey sales jumped to number 1 in the NFL following his national anthem protest. And yes, at $100, those too cost more than a 49ers opening night ticket. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #12 Glad my season tickets were in the 80's...and they were too expensive then! |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2016-09-13 16:49 |
| #11 As an American, I support Kaepernick's right to convince us he is a total douche by engaging in cheap look-at-me theatrics instead of taking his 10 million and doing something that might actually help, like founding a charter school. But my inner Tom Landry says if you are part of a team, you act like a team. Otherwise, go sit in the locker room. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-09-13 16:27 |
| #10 Listened to a report on the most expensive NFL ticket and least expensive ticket, to include costs (parking, food, et al). Cheapest was Cincinnati and most expensive was the 49ers. Making it easier to save several hundred a weekend. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-13 13:12 |
| #9 Right there with ya swksvolFF. We were raised on football. Dad took us to those early Niner games at Kezar. Given the current state of the NFL- walking away is a piece of cake. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2016-09-13 11:42 |
| #8 Not just '9er fans. Managed to get this life-long Chiefs fan to quit. Didn't put on the game last night. Think I'll watch Range 15 on Thursday. Pretty stoked about my new found free-time. No scheduled Sunday. Don't have to keep facts in my back pocket for the water cooler. No more flippy talking heads trying to talk sports with actual athletes. No more athletes being brow beat by beta media males. Not that I won't have a passive interest, probably always will, but I can improve my cistern system instead. Play catch with the kids while the weather is still good. You know, real life. I did this last year - in one week, audit the time spent on a NFL game. Pre-game, watching the game, post-game, highlights both looked for and presented, time talking about it with people. Came to about six hours. That is, about a full day of work, not including any adult beverage issues (cost, health, lack of productivity). It was the same wow moment when I realized how much time was lost during the work day by taking smoke breaks - ten minutes to smoke, getting dressed, getting to the smoke pile, getting back, getting back into mindset, 20 minutes every break, break every 90 minutes or so. Ridiculous. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-09-13 10:55 |
| #7 As a Niner fan from the Kezar Stadium days, I have finally bailed. |
| Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 2016-09-13 08:50 |
| #6 The bottom-line complaint of all progressives - "It ain't perfect." They don't know what it is, but they know we ain't there yet! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-09-13 07:58 |
| #5 CF, it was a Soros bulk buy. newc, ditto. Have any of these "protesters" ever said exactly what they want? Other than those MSU loonies I've not see what the oppression is. Is it having a certifiable black for president? Having black AGs and mayors? Getting paid millions for playing games? What is so bad for them that they aren't doing to themselves? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-09-13 07:26 |
| #4 I wonder how many of those jersey sales were for the fire? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-09-13 01:33 |
| #3 You have a right in America to redress grievance and freely petition the Government. Not your sports team, the idiot NFL, the league you work for, or All Americans and the Flag they died for. This is the part where I insert many F words and not even good grilling language so that is all. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-09-13 01:16 |
| #2 Chip Kelly's overrated, $50 to park, and the team sucks balls. There's a winning formula! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-09-13 00:41 |
| #1 Gabbert has them out to a 14-0 lead. I hope he plays well *only* so that it makes it easy in the offseason to CUT the whiny backup. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-09-13 00:26 |