The NFL gave Jed York and the 49ers $200 million in support Thursday for their new stadium in Santa Clara.
York spoke on a conference call this afternoon, and this is what he said.
Q: How much of a shot in the arm is this 200 million dollar amount that was approved today?
YORK: This is something that the owners worked on – to put together the G4 facility. There was a lot of work that went into it. We’re obviously very thankful for the hard work and support. This is big step for the 49ers, and I think it’s a big step for stadium development in California. We haven’t had a (new) football stadium in California for decades. This is going to be a big thing for everybody.
Q: Some season ticket holders are having some reservations over the ticket prices for the new stadium. Do you think that you’re going to be able to sell enough tickets to pay back the full price?
YORK: I think you kind of hit on two things there. The first thing I’ll say is we want to make sure there is an option for all our fans. We only have 9,000 of our seats that are currently priced right now. We are going through the process of allocating seats to folks who are at Candlestick now. The legends and the stadium authority in Santa Clara have put together a process to allow those folks to come down and have their seat or a similar seat in the new stadium. For folks that don’t want those seats, if it’s out of their price range we’re allowing our longtime season ticket holders the opportunity to put down a completely refundable deposit so they can have first access for other seats as they open up in the stadium. We believe that the building’s going to be priced very fairly for our fans, and there’s going to be a lot of great amenities that make this building the greatest outdoor entertainment experience in the world. Obviously, if we weren’t comfortable with that from a financial standpoint, we wouldn’t move forward.
Q: You said it’s priced fairly, but season ticket holders are asked from $20,000 to $80,000 for the right for the seats with the stadium builder’s license. Do the 49ers think that’s reasonable?
YORK: You should probably understand the facts before you say something like that. Those are 9,000 seats out of a 67,000 seat stadium. Over 55,000 seats have not been priced yet. There’s definitely going to be affordable seats for everybody in the building.
Q: Do you have the naming rights deal yet?
YORK: No. We are working with potential naming-rights partners now, obviously with the full support from the NFL. That will make it much more likely that we will get it done.
Q: What are the terms of the loan with the NFL? And does it change the overall math on the borrowing for the project? Does it make it easier on the front end? How does it change anything if it all?
YORK: It’s not a loan. It’s NFL support. There are different pieces to it. It’s fairly complicated to get into, but it obviously is something that makes financing the stadium a reality, and it’s much easier to do when you have the NFL support than when you don’t have NFL support.
Q: Is it more accurate to say they’re kicking in $200 million towards the stadium as opposed to loaning?
YORK: It’s support. Some of it is a loan from the NFL’s balance sheet and the rest is support from the NFL owners. There’s a combination to it and it’s fairly intricate. It’s a lot more complicated than what you’re making it sound.
Q: Are there any strings attached as far as joint use with the Raiders?
YORK: There are no string attached, but obviously the term sheet that we have with the city of Santa Clara allowed for this to be a two-team building. That has not changed. We have not had any meaningful conversations with any team about that, but we have had some high-level conversations with the Raiders just to allow them to understand what this project looks like and understand what the stadium’s going to look and feel like in Santa Clara.
Q: Were those conversations with the Raiders recent?
YORK: We’ve had conversations with them. We keep each other abreast of our stadium situation, so it’s been ongoing for the past five or six years. But there hasn’t been anything meaningful as far as a partnership or some type of joint venture.
Q: Have you met with Mark Davis in recent months?
YORK: We worked out together today at the J.W. Marriot before the meeting, had lunch together – we’re staying at the same hotel in Indy. It was very casual conversation, just lamenting the fact that we aren’t playing in the game more than anything else.
Q: Some of the citizen groups that are against the deal say that the 49ers haven’t put any money on the line yet – that it’s 100 percent financed. Can you comment on that?
YORK: Yeah, it’s not true.
Q: How much cash have the 49ers put on the table so far for this?
YORK: The stadium is going to cost $1.02 billion. We’ve had the financing in place. We’ve spent money on predevelopment leading up to this project. We’ve spent money and we are the ones who ultimately on are on the hook for the risk of the stadium, and that’s the most important piece.
Q: When will you have the seat pricing done, and what with the builder’s license fees be based on?
YORK: We want to make sure that we have the opportunity to meet face to face with every single season ticket holder at Candlestick. I think that’s very important. We owe them that opportunity to sit down so they can understand all their options. The way we’re doing it is we’re allocating seats that are the same or similar to the ones they had at Candlestick. It’s hard to do that because at Candlestick about 50 percent of the seats are in the upper bowl and 50 percent in the lower bowl, and at the new stadium two thirds of the seats are in the lower deck and one third in the upper deck. So, there’s not a one-to-one ratio. There are more seats that are lower and closer to the field in Santa Clara. As we get through the first piece of this allocation, we’re hopeful in the next several months we’ll be able to reach out to the season ticket holders, and you just keep moving forward. We’ve got over 20,000 season ticket holder accounts. That will take probably a year to meet with everybody face-to-face. As we get through folks we’ll continue to line up interviews with more and more folks. We’re hopeful in the next couple months we’ll be able to get to the general admission seats. That’s something that legends and the stadium authority are working on right now.
Q: How do you characterize the significance of the fact that the NFL kicked in $200 million as opposed to $150 million?
YORK: It’s a different program. The G3 program was exhausted. The G4 program is a different program. When you’re looking at the dollar amount, it’s the most support that the NFL has ever given to one single team. The Jets and Giants had $300 million in support for both teams in a shared building. This is an unprecedented day for the 49ers and it’s a big vote of confidence from the league. It shows how important is to get new stadiums built in California.
Q: Is San Francisco completely off the table now or is there still a ray of hope there?
YORK: This means that we are fully funded for Santa Clara and we are building a football stadium in Santa Clara.
Q: Are the people of Santa Clara completely protected from all these loans?
YORK: The 49ers are on the hook if the loans can’t be paid back.
Q: What’s the next biggest hurdle the Niners have to clear to start building?
YORK: Ground breaking hopefully will begin soon. We’re doing a lot of make-ready work right now. Now it’s the construction, it’s making sure we get shovels in the ground and start building.
Q: What does the make-ready work entail?
YORK: Getting the site level – if you’re been there you know it slopes down, there’s a little bit of a grade there. So, just making sure you have everything in a position where you can start construction.
Q: Are we still looking at 2014 for the move in, or 2015?
YORK: 2015 is definite and we are hopeful that if things go well we can have a ’14 opening. 2015 is a certainty, and like anything we’d like to exceed our own expectations and we’re going to work as hard as we can to make that happen.
Q: Anything else you’d like to say?
YORK: There are two things. No. 1 – a big thank you to the city of Santa Clara, the city council members, the citizens for being so supportive, a big thank you to Mayor Lee and his staff that understands that even if we aren’t playing in San Francisco, we will always be the San Francisco 49ers and we will find great, creative ways to work together to make sure that we are part of the fabric of the city of San Francisco, and understand that this is a great day for the entire Bay Area.
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Ticket prices will be going up folks, but it will be nice to have a new stadium. Hosting a SuperBowl won’t be bad either.
Superbowl wifes/gfs … some nice pictures to look at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2012/02/01/super_bowl_wags.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2Fba-Was3901722_SFC0106480478.jpg
Bullcrap Jed. I was asked 60 grrrr to retain seats. Its crazy. Dont lie to your customers. Those 7000 seats are in the same area Im in now.
Sorry MD, that really blows! $60k is ridiculous (is that per seat or per pair?)
The pair. They are in the Gold section. And my seats fall into that 20k -60k range. I would love to meet Jed in person. Atleast he has the guts to face customers face to face….I do like that. If its refundable it would still be hard to put that kind of bread down. I can understand the prices will be higher, but after getting that news. I was floored. Gotta see how its going to go. Anybody need and weed? Lmao JK
Alex Smith fans get a 20% discount
Serious MD? 60K just for a license?
Ouch. The crowds will go back to the quiet white wine and cheese of the 80s at those prices.
Yes they will. Hey I believe that if your successful enough to afford that… more power to you. Im figuring Ill have to downgrade seats, but hey Ill keep the season tix tradition alive for the family. And Ill still be at my second home for 8 weeks of the year. =-)
Quiet wine and cheese? Not at the Stick in the 80′s. Maybe you were sitting in your living room.
What made me a pro-football was the game experience. What is the percentage of people that can afford tens of thousands for the “rights” to a seat. Pro-football teams think it must be high. How about the family that have had season tickets at the 50 yard line for the last sixty years and can’t afford the PSL cost? The Yorks are kind enough to put them on a waiting list for seats in the nose bleed section.
These owners forget one thing, change is the only constant. Pro-football, as all sports, will go into a decline at some point. What’s more important Mr. York, my kids tuition or football seats, my mortgage payment or football seats, my hospital care or football seats? What do you as a dedicated fan think is more important.
Only 8 responses? Maybe Grant should change the title to something like “Will Alex Smith Play in the New Stadium That Jed York Announced Today?”
Aside from the financial hit that season ticket holders will take I am glad to see the 49ers get a new home. I last went to Candlestick in 1994 and it was a dump even then. I can’t imagine it’s any better today.
With the 49ers holding ALL of the debt I’m a bit concerned about their cash-flow though. I wonder if the debt-service will impact their ability to sign high-caliber players.
Hey Jed your a slimeball
Hey shane
Shut the Hell Up!
Classy, Shane. Hope you don’t get a ticket. The Raiders can use another fan or two.
I go in with my friend for four games a year and although the stadium will be much closer, can’t afford those tickets.
Not that I expect tickets are going to be cheap, but they’ve only announced what the price will be for club seats.
Hey fans, I just received (after many years) the rights to passage across the Golden Gate Bridge. You can receive discounted rates if you pay ten years advance fee. This will be a wonderful plan for those who don’t wish to wait in long queues. The plan will include pedestrians discount. Contact B. Madoff and associates for further details.
Andrew, I thought you were in India
I am. Can’t fault a guy for wanting to make a buck. In all seriousness, the public has been taken for a ride in all measures of life and this PSL is another way to make the rich richer without any consequences. The fans have forgotten they are the ones in charge. If fans boycotted games over the PSL prices watch how fast the cost would lower. Everything is negotiable.
You’re right my friend. Many fans are being priced out of season ticket ownership.
Maybe I’m getting too old. I used to go to basketball games at the old Madison Square Garden at 50th street and 8th avenue. They would have doubleheaders and the cost…….50 cents. I went to the 64 World Series and sat in the bleachers, cost 75 cents. Court side seat for a Laker game today over 2000 bucks. I know prices are supposed to go up but an entire generation of fans will grow up not ever attending a pro game.
Sure as fans of course we have the right not to pay, but everything comes with a cost. The 49ers have been trying to get a stadium for how long 15-20 years? Obviously building a new stadium (especially during these economic times) isn’t easy, but they need to be paid for somehow. So unless you have a billionaire owner who can front the cost, then you’re only other option would be using public funds by taxing the citizens of Santa Clara and that’s not fair to them. I’m sure it’s frustrating if you’ve been a season ticket holder for years and don’t wanna pay for PSL’s, but nobody’s forcing you to be a season ticket holder. Lets not be naive here, it’s an extremely expensive project and it needs to be paid for somehow right?
You’re right! You are really damn old!
If you’re lucky, really lucky you’ll get there.
I don’t know enough about the Prices of the New Stadium but I certainly am not going to Jump the Gun like ninermd. And I think he is, in my opinion.
Until ALL the details come out in regards to Pricing?
Don’t be a Blow Hard & think you know everything about the Seating when clearly you don’t.
York said on KNBR the funding vote went 30 Yes, 1 No, 1 Abstention. Anyone know which owner voted no?
Al Davis voted No.
He said that 1 team did not attend the meeting and vote.
If you weren’t present, I don’t think that would be considered as a “No” vote.
The one absent team was counted as a no-vote.
Oh for the days of Rome, when the gladiators were warrior slaves for our pleasure…yes those were the days my friends.
Hopes:
- I hope the new stadium is designed to acoustically funnel noise onto the red zones. Time to even up Seattle’s sound advantage.
- Glad their are more women’s bathrooms. I hope they did that by not taking away the number of men’s bathrooms.
- I hope I make friends with a millionaire season ticket holder, cuz that’s the only was I’m going to be seeing any live games.
Wish:
- I wish it was built in San Francisco. Love the old stories about how Kezar was a neighborhood stadium. Not economically feasible in today’s NFL, but it would have been nice for San Francisco to differentiate itself (as is our custom).
An inner city stadium would be like some of those older English soccer stadiums. Gives a nice, claustrophobic feel for the visiting team to have buildings almost right up against the facility (parking be damned).
I heard an earlier stadium proposal for San Francisco was rejected because it proposed a parking garage. The league prefers flat parking lots to facilitate tailgating.
I’ve been waiting for SOMEONE to mention the noise issue. And it is with Seattle in mind for me too. Let’s level the playing field! I sure hope this was designed to funnel the noise down to the field and make it freakin LOUD, so we can finally have the advantage of many other fields. and how about the closeness to the field like in Kansas City. Anybody know? I guess I could peruse the pictures or models that must be available.
There is “going” to be a parking garage in Santa Clara, but that was an excuse that the Yorks used to scapegoat SF to the NFL.
That fact that SF offered a toxic waste dump in a crime ridden neighborhood with zero public transit access as a location for a new stadium didn’t help either.
The city of Santa Clara is making a minimal investment to land the 49ers. San Francisco’s dysfunctional leadership couldn’t step up to the plate.
msclemons, Jeddy Bear had his eyes on Santa Clara from the getgo, he didn’t care to have it in SF. It’s in Silicon Valley and he knew off the bat that’s where all the $$$ was.
More money and he doesn’t have to deal with the SF politicians? He would be stupid not to do it. Besides, who the hell would want a stadium built on top of a toxic landfill site? This is a good article hitting on some of the problems with the site.
http://www.fas.org/man/company/shipyard/hunters_point.htm
its strangely funny, but I never got to go to games at Kezar when i was a kid because we were too poor…i’m going to guess tickets were about $10 each back then, back when you could get box seats at a Giants game for $6 or $8…bleachers were $2 for quite some time. $60,000? somehow, i dont think its just the times that have changed. our culture has really embraced the worship of the Almighty Dollar. ok, i dont mind, as long as you pay Patrick Willis, Justin Smith, etc., and while you’re at it, its time to move to guaranteed contracts. no way that guys like this should risk having their career end on any given play, with no compensation. for $60 k a seat, you might want to treat your employees better than you would a horse.
“Q: You said it’s priced fairly, but season ticket holders are asked from $20,000 to $80,000 for the right for the seats with the stadium builder’s license. Do the 49ers think that’s reasonable?
YORK: You should probably understand the facts before you say something like that. Those are 9,000 seats out of a 67,000 seat stadium. Over 55,000 seats have not been priced yet. There’s definitely going to be affordable seats for everybody in the building.”
Albert, see Ninermd comments above.
i’m sure not every seat is going to cost $60k…and so my opinion on the matter wouldn’t change.
i have no problem with the profit motive. but as the justice said, i know obscene when i see it.
and this is coming from a former investment banker – i’m well versed in “obscene”.
@fesnyc
“…but as the justice said, i know obscene when i see it.”
Ahhh. But, it was difficult for the justice to define obscene.
This little act would help him out (define the word obscene).
This stadium is going to cost 1 billion dollars to build. It will be those that attend the stadium that are going to pick up that bill. I am sure the Yorks would have been happy if the price was only 500 million, and they could have charged half price (10k to 30k) for the PSL. What did the Arizona stadium cost? Something like 300 million?
Maybe I am incorrect, but I believe high union wages, heavy regulation, and the Chinese buying all the concrete is the reason why the price tag for the 49er’s stadium is so high.
P.S. Kudo’s to the Yorks for taking the risk of a billion dollar investment. If it doesn’t pay itself off, I could easily see it bankrupting them. It would have been much easier to just move the team somewhere else or continue to play at Candlestick.
Name the last NFL bankruptcy.
touche, Andrew.
that exemption from antitrust law really comes in handy.
BigP…
“thank you”
er, ah…the taxpayers from what I hear of Santa Clara have been saddled with paying the $850 Million Dollars back in loans that the Yorks secured. Thats why they are all hopping mad, because that wasn’t what they voted for in June of 2010. Some group in Santa Clara has filed a Lawsuit to have the new terms & conditions put on the ballot.
The Santa Clara City Council woman on TV said that the stadium will not be paid via taxpayers dollars.
Not a cent.
DS94everXev..
Thats what the City Officials said from “jumpstreet” …It would not cost the taxpayers one thin dime…Now the stadium cost $1.02 Billion, and the city of SC in on the hook for $850 Million…the taxpayers of Santa Clara should be saying, “fool me once shame me, fool me twice…shame on you.”
Somebody is going to pay the 850 Million, & it ain’t the Yorks.
@blazer
I believe the Yorks got 3 loans from banks that totaled $850 billion. Then add the 200 million the NFL gave them, and you have $1.05 Billion right there.
The taxpayers did not pay for the stadium. But the fans paying for seats most certainly will.
Actually they secured the loans for the stadium authority, which is ran by Santa Clara. So yes, S.C. is technically responsible for the loans.
BigP..thank you!
I get why you are all upset, but how else are the 49ers going to get a new stadium? The facts are these: land is expensive, design is expensive, permits and other approvals are expensive, labor is expensive, materials are expensive, and cost overruns are expensive.
It really is too bad that many loyal fans will not be able to buy similar, or possibly any, seats. At the same time, we all know that the 49ers needed a new stadium to be competitive.
It seems to me the 49ers are doing the only thing they can do, raise the money to build the stadium. It may hurt, but it’s just not reasonable to expect the 49ers to build the stadium and not get the fans to pay for it.
When a manufacturer builds a new plant the consumer pay for it. When a supermarket buys a new fleet of delivery trucks the consumer pays for it. If you run your own business, you know that if you buy new computers, your customers pay for. And if they don’t, you’re going to be out of business very soon.
So true, it is the cost of doing business in today’s NFL. You have to have a state of the art stadium in order to be an elite franchise. There are just so many revenue streams attached to a new facility. PSL’s, SBL’s, season tickets, parking, sponsors, concessions, etc. It is frustrating, but ultimately needed in order to stay competetive.
BigP…
Or is it all about Greed & those Dolla, Dolla Bills! Yesterday I saw a Player from New York being interviewed at the SB, and he said, “We Could have played this Game last week…I’m ready to play, only reason we don’t play is because the NFL wants to make More Money.” Poor dude will probably be fined for saying that, but its true…
all those reasons to have a new stadium is a load of BS. I guarantee you if the Niners weren’t doing so well this season, the owners wouldn’t have approved. Noone is going to bank on a new stadium when it’s the team that draws the crowd in. They better hope the Niners continue this success for as long as possible because after everyone has gotten that stadium experience out of their system, they will no longer care to go back if the prices are still too high, especially if the team isn’t doing so well.
Blazer,
Sure it’s about greed as well, my point is that they still have to have the revenue streams in order to compete with the other teams that have these renenue streams. The other reality is the team has been trying to build a new stadium for what, 20+ years now? It’s not like they didn’t try. I give them credit for grinding through the process, it is almost impossible to get new stadiums built in California.
We may not like it, but the right price for the PSL’s is amount they sell for. If the PSL’s for those 9,000 premium seats go for the listed prices, then they were properly priced.
That’s capitalism for you. As Walter Matthau said, “Capitalism is the best of all the lousy systems we have available.”
I would’ve really enjoyed watching the 49ers being interviewed during Super Bowl week.
I can’t help but think they should be there. That was a FUMBLE!!! There would’ve been no OT, and the 49ers would be in Indy.
Our present seats are in Upper Reserved Section 20 just below the press box. Frankly, I don’t know what all the fuss is about being closer to the field. I prefer being higher up so I can see the patterns develop and get a perspective on the game which the couch potatoes at home cannot get. Being lower down means you are pretty much seeing the backs of the players.
I’ll take Jed at his word for now and believe that at the end of the process we will have seats in the new stadium at a reasonable price.
isn’t there a dump near the site in santa clara……seems to me that there will be plenty of seagull action…..will need to have some falcons set up shop there…
Flys in the face of Jim’s blue collar doesnt it? If he wanted true blue collar,no $3,000 toilets for Jim and heated seats. A porta potty should be good enough.
And its really obscene that as schools close and others take away lunches for kids we are building stadium for millionaires,with free land.
Come on, are you really going there??? Of course as a society that money would be better off going towards school funding, poverty in Africa, re-building the war torn nation of Iraq… and we could go on forever. But wouldn’t you’re time be better spent volunteering at a homeless shelter, rather than wasted here writing on a sports blog? Just saying lol
Its the over the topness of it all. And that free land? crazy that Jed says he has financing for one billion..but not for the 14 mill?..a tiny percentage. I would need 5-6 lifetimes to give 14mill in volunteer time..or 10 or 20..who knows?
And lets not forget-the rest of us renovate and are happy..so why not the stick? I dont beleive for a minute that a hundred mill wouldnt modernize it.
These owners lie..all of them.
You are running out of time Stan. You better stat volunteering right now! We will miss you, but I am sure it will be for a worthy cause.
Santa Clara gave the land to the 49ers becasue they caluclated that the tax revenue generated by the 49ers being their would be greater, on an annual basis then if theyu sold the land to a developer and gave the cash to your favorite charity.
Hell, they will get the entire value of the land back with the 1st Super Bowl. I have read that the Super Bowl is generating over $150 mil in revenue for Indy. Can you imagine what their take in tax will be?
Alright, a new stadium, finally!!!
My seats, since 1972, on the thirty-five, twenty-one rows up on the sunny side, cost about $2600 year for two. When I first purchased the seats, if memory serves me, they were $65 a seat per season. I fully understand the players are now very highly compensated, as they should be, but to impose a PSL on the seats will probably cause me to give them up, especially since I live in Santa Rosa and don’t want to add another hour of travel time. I doubt that I’m alone.
I’m afraid professional football game attendance is becoming an activity for only the rich or for the corporations. What a shame.
@oldtime i’m also from santa rosa we had season tickets in 72 i think by then the prices had risen all the way up to 75 dollars a yr and a ticket to the nfc championship ran 25 dollars. the last 30 yrs or so i pick out the best 2 games of the yr get on stub hub in april and pay face value or lower. i’m sure that the price will be higher this yr but i bet you can still get a pretty good deal
Can’t you season ticket holders sell your rights? Sounds like you could make a killing.
You can only sell your rights through PSL’s and there were no PSL’s at the Stick. So no one has any rights coming from Candlestick to sell going into Santa Clara. But the 49ers are rewarding loyalty by giving season tickets holders the frist right of refusal to purchase the licenses. And believe me, if the old season tickets holders don’t want to buy the new rights there will be plenty of new season tickets holders that will.
My Father had tickets at Yankee Stadium, then the Giants moved to New Haven CT. for two years while the first Meadowlands Stadium was being built. For a generation if you went to Yankee Stadium the same people were in the same seats every year in his section.
When the NJ Stadium was ready I went to one of the first games and it was in a similar section as in Yankee Stadium. I couldn’t recognize one person, and this was way before any PSL.
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With the move, I wonder if the team is also considering a name change … Santa Clara 49ers doesn’t sounds right.
I never quite understood the need to keep “San Fransisco” as part of the name.
Seems to me (as an outsider) isn’t it a bit of an insult to all those citizens of Santa Clara that have to put up with all the crap & expense of the new stadium, not to have the team named in their honor??
Craps,
Just off the top of my head the following is a list of teams that don’t play in the the city in their name:
Dallas Cowboys
NYG [different state]
NYJ [different state]
NE Patriots
Miami Dolphins
Washington Redskins
And there may be others.
Traditionally, when a team builds a stadium outside of their original city, but still in the same area, it keeps the original city in it’s name. Besides, the region is the San Francisco Bay Area, after all.
Craps,
Its safe to say ‘San Francisco’ has better name recognition than ‘Santa Clara’. That may be enough motivation to not change the name
The 49ers never considered changing to the Santa Clara 49ers, even for a second, according to Jed York.
So how much are the Yorks putting into the new stadium Jed?
Let me guess, less than 0.001% of the one billion dollars.
They are taking zero personal risk. It’s all being done with borrowed money secured on the team. If the loans default, the Yorks will still walk away billionaires leaving others to clean up their mess.
And don’t go thinking that won’t mean you.
The NFL would most likey take over the 49ers, much like the NBA took over the Hornets. It didn’t cost the local sanything. By the way, a lot of the debt will be reduced through the PSL sales. One final thing the Giants did the same thing (sold PSL’s) when they built PacBell. This is not new.
And congrats to Lowell for waving the truth flag on Comcast again. He’s not buying what Kawakami and Purdy are selling as the ” The A’s must have a new stadium to be competitive”. Purdy even goes as far to say he “Admires Lew Wolff”..jeez,could he suck any harder?
I hate when teams blame a building for their bad trades,bad drafts (The A’s have stunk lately at that) and cheapness to sign free agents. And add Jim Korzimar as another sellout.
Will the old seats of candlestick be sold to collectors. If so where could they be purchased.
Football’s Most Valuable Team
Dallas #1 worths 1.85 Billions.
49ers #17 worths 990 Millions, almost half of Cowboys’. Unbelievable.
Yes. They need a new stadium.
There is a neat slide-show over at the stadium site. The conceptual drawings look pretty cool.
The blog doesn’t seem to like the url though:
newsantaclarastadium[DOT]com/#/home
And Lowell- next time Korzimar or Purdy say Beltre turned down more money to not play for the A’s? You tell them-did he turn down the Coloseum or the Org.? THAT’S the real truth.
Congratulations to Coach Harbaugh on winning Coach of the Year. Best signing by the organization in the last 5 years!
To whom it may concern, I work for a company in Hayward named Solonics we have already had a couple or more calls involving Santa Clara for construction these are through your proscetive contractors. We are a manufactuer in Hayward and use Napa State Hospitol vocational department for uor wood fabrication. We presently bidding on 444 sheets of fire retardent plywood for this project all products paint wood labor wood be local. San Raphel Napa Hayward hope this would be a consideration for this future project also everyone I have talked to are devoted fans. Thanks Carl Fry
For a billion+ dollars, you’d think they could come up with a stadium that wasn’t such an eyesore.