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New Home for 49ers?
San Francisco 49er football fans have been patiently waiting for a new stadium for years but despite plenty of promises, there's still no firm plan in place. While their current home at Candlestick Park may hold lots of great memories (they've been playing their since 1971, making it the oldest current NFL stadium that hasn't undergone major renovations), it's been showing its age for decades.
The first serious attempt to build a new 49ers stadium kicked off in 1997, when San Francisco voters approved a plan to build a new $100 million stadium and attached shopping mall at Candlestick Point. Despite voter approval and grant money, the plan never got off the ground when the company in charge of building it was unable to move forward with the project. For years after the team and city of San Francisco would periodically try to put another proposal together but with no success.
It wasn't until nearly ten years later in 2006 when another serious stab was made at building a new 49ers stadium. Spurred on by plans to try to get the 2016 Summer Olympics to be awarded to the city of San Francisco, a new stadium plan was hatched, with the stadium serving as the centerpiece of the Summer Olympics bid.
As always, though, problems immediately developed, with the city and the team disagreeing as to where the new stadium should be located. Unable to come to a mutually agreeable location, in late 2006 the team announced that it was scouting out a new stadium location in Santa Clara, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. This announcement had pretty drastic consequences, as it caused the city to abandon its Olympic dreams and led to many devoted fans threatening to turn against the team they'd supported for so many years.
Despite upset fans, the team is still pursuing talks with Santa Clara officials in 2009, with the city council agreeing to preliminary terms to build the new 49ers stadium there, with a public vote on the matter coming soon. If the 49ers do build their stadium in Santa Clara, they claim they'll still be called the San Francisco 49ers.
Will the team make the move and finally get a new stadium? If you're the betting type and play casino game online, odds are they'll eventually get a brand new home, and it's looking more and more likely like it'll be in Santa Clara instead of San Francisco.
New Home for 49ers?
San Francisco 49er football fans have been patiently waiting for a new stadium for years but despite plenty of promises, there's still no firm plan in place. While their current home at Candlestick Park may hold lots of great memories (they've been playing their since 1971, making it the oldest current NFL stadium that hasn't undergone major renovations), it's been showing its age for decades.
The first serious attempt to build a new 49ers stadium kicked off in 1997, when San Francisco voters approved a plan to build a new $100 million stadium and attached shopping mall at Candlestick Point. Despite voter approval and grant money, the plan never got off the ground when the company in charge of building it was unable to move forward with the project. For years after the team and city of San Francisco would periodically try to put another proposal together but with no success.
It wasn't until nearly ten years later in 2006 when another serious stab was made at building a new 49ers stadium. Spurred on by plans to try to get the 2016 Summer Olympics to be awarded to the city of San Francisco, a new stadium plan was hatched, with the stadium serving as the centerpiece of the Summer Olympics bid.
As always, though, problems immediately developed, with the city and the team disagreeing as to where the new stadium should be located. Unable to come to a mutually agreeable location, in late 2006 the team announced that it was scouting out a new stadium location in Santa Clara, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. This announcement had pretty drastic consequences, as it caused the city to abandon its Olympic dreams and led to many devoted fans threatening to turn against the team they'd supported for so many years.
Despite upset fans, the team is still pursuing talks with Santa Clara officials in 2009, with the city council agreeing to preliminary terms to build the new 49ers stadium there, with a public vote on the matter coming soon. If the 49ers do build their stadium in Santa Clara, they claim they'll still be called the San Francisco 49ers.
Will the team make the move and finally get a new stadium? If you're the betting type and play casino game online, odds are they'll eventually get a brand new home, and it's looking more and more likely like it'll be in Santa Clara instead of San Francisco.
