The 4. 9ers Stadium Is As Empty As It Deserves To Be. In the last few seasons the 4. Candlestick Park, I got into the gate for roughly 5. The swarms of ushers and ticket checkers customary at modern professional sports games were conspicuously absent at the old concrete bowl, and so by the end of the 2. Id found a permanent place in the lower level on the 4. Ipod Rabid Rider 2010 MercedesbenzIpod Rabid Rider 2010 FordI was welcomed in without a real seat by some older white men from Berkeley whod inherited their season tickets from their father, whom they told me had held season tickets for the 4. Stick, and a wild, often drunk man in his mid 3. Fresno and wore things like Batman masks with a 4. The two parties clashed, but that wasnt my problem. All I knew was that Id been fortunate to find hospitable hosts in such an incredible section and that the men from Berkeley were kind enough to regale me with stories of their memories at Candlestick from before I was born, when the 4. The seats faced the big hill that made up the western border of the property when the sun began to set in usually the third quarter or so, the sky would often turn bright, vibrant colors that made the whole aesthetic more than was deserved by what was really a comically antiquated stadium that somehow smelled stale no matter what time you were there. From those seats, I watched the peak of the Jim Harbaugh years, the ones that now seem like theyll ultimately be but a blip on the long, extended timeline of shitty 4. Eddie De. Bartolo had to give the team to his sister, Denise, who then gave it to her son, Jed York. But the Niners couldnt have asked for better moment with which to move the team down to Santa Clara the last 4. Stick was the one saved by Na. Vorro Bowmans miraculous pick six, which seemed to play out in slow motion though that was really just because he was slow as hell running across the field. The Niners won, fireworks were shot off, and Hello, Goodbye blasted from the PA, an allusion to the Beatles playing their final U. S. show at the stadium back in 1. Less than four years later, the team finds itself amid a perfect storm of waning fan interest at its new, hyper modern stadium 4. San Francisco. The 4. Dragons: Gift Of The Night Fury Theater Movie there. East side of the stadium during day games, especially early in the NFL season. Photos of the empty home side of the new ish 4. Uncyclopedia_In-Jokes_for_Dummies.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20070702132317' alt='Ipod Rabid Rider 2010 Camaro' title='Ipod Rabid Rider 2010 Camaro' />Unfortunately for the Niners, their big, glass paneled press box faces directly into the stands hit with the most glaring rays. The view from the opposite side of the stadium is not quite as bleak as the one offered to sportswriters. Its not a pretty sight, and its exactly what Jed York should see from his owners box while the team he wrested away from its only competent coach since Bill Walsh continues to not just disappoint but enrage those of us who are emotionally attached to this dumbass team. What you are seeing in that empty stadium porn is the result of distance from San Francisco, early season heat, and a team that is seemingly getting more anonymous by the snap in all, its schadenfreude incarnate. Its more than that, thoughcorny as it is to say, it cant be understated how much the move to a new stadium cleaved any remaining bridge between the dynasty 4. The move did away with the shared experiences of the franchises best years, even if each passing year proved Candlestick to be more dilapidated and outdated. The move severed relationships among longtime ticket holders and priced out the old guard of fans who havent yet accepted that watching an NFL game on the couch is much more enjoyable than it is in person and, in conjunction with the proximity to the new monied Silicon Valley oligarchy, it drove home who NFL games are for now. This isnt to gloss over Candlesticks many, many issues. Ipod Rabid Rider 2010 Calendar' title='Ipod Rabid Rider 2010 Calendar' />Candlestick, in many ways, sucked. But it had been around forever, hosting everything from that Beatles concert to the 1. World Series as well as anything 4. The traffic sucked as it does at the new stadium, anyway, and it was usually windy and cold, but it was a legacy site instead of a modern marvel headlined by Michael Minas tailgate with appearances by Ayesha Curry. Sam Clovis, the climatechangedenying Iowa business professor with no formal scientific qualifications President Donald Trump has nominated to serve as chief. 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Those stands are not just empty of bored fans who dont want to sit in traffic to get roasted in the sun all Sunday watching a terrible team. Though, for most reasonable people, that should be enough. What people across the country may not see is how at the beginning of the fourth season in Santa Clara, the stadium has failed to be any more broken in than it was when it opened. Candlestick was a shitty home. But it was a home. The stands at Candlestick spoke loudly for the changing Bay Area the lifelong season ticketholders like my white pals from Berkeley blended with younger, Hispanic fans from more blended towns reaching down into San Joaquin valley. When the team moved to Santa Clara, large swaths of those fans were cut out of the equation. Ready Player One has 445,854 ratings and 54,712 reviews. Kemper said I originally gave this book 3 stars as harmless lightweight fun, but my opinion of. Season ticket prices were reasonableworking class friends of mine had been able to afford packages during the Alex Smith years, evenand suddenly, the privilege of watching the Niners required 4,0. And more generally, for fans in San Francisco, the stadium might as well be on Mars. The team has attempted to provide reasonable access to Santa Clara, be it through Amtrak or Caltrain, but its still at the tip of a peninsula becoming more and more crowded due to booming development from the second Silicon Valley bubble. This isnt an accident. Teams across the four major sports have realized it is much more lucrative to cater to wealthy, mildly interested customers and corporate clientele than to the old rowdy fools in Ronnie Lott jerseys. Take the Michael Mina tailgate thing Its cosplay, a version of a traditional football enthusiasts pastime laid out for the rich and snobby. Its fine, I suppose, but inherently ridiculous. If I want to do some version of fine dining, the last place I want to be is at a football game, and if Im at a football game, the last thing I care about is the best meal of my life. The Niners experience, I suppose, is now pitched at people who think differently. Is this working out Ive been to Levis Stadium twice I happened to move cross country just weeks after the Niners lost in that wild NFC Championship against the Seahawks. I flew home for the first regular season home game against the Bears. It was a somewhat unremarkable game, other than Colin Kaepernick pissing away the lead throughout the fourth quarter. I bought a standing room ticket for 1. But wildly enough, as I posted up at a railing somewhere near the 5. Candlestick friend Adam, Batman mask and all. Later, again, strangely, I ran into my older friends from Berkeley while waiting for the Amtrak back up to the City. Theyd spent 4. 2 years on the 5. Sundays in corner endzone seats a couple levels into the sky. My second trip to Santa Clara was different I was covering Super Bowl 5. Cam Newton crap his pants on the field and go totally silent after the game. Neither experience was representative of the regular season ins and outs of 4. Bay Area, but when we talk about empty seats and the distance from San Francisco to Santa Clara, a lot of the immeasurable things like relationships and tradition get lost. All of it indexes in ways you can measure. Tickets on the secondary market are cheap as hell for this season already. A Seahawks 4. 9ers game the Sunday after Thanksgiving will cost you a whole 6. Considering the cheapest season tickets run 8. And who can blame them When it comes to photos of the stands in Santa Clara, the joke is clearly not on the fans, but on the team ownership. Its the 4. 9ers, and Jed York, who look like assholeswhich they are.