One week into the new stadium, and we’ve had a (possibly heat-related) death, and the removal of 2/3 of the sod today. Stevie Wonder was slammed to the turf by a wayward piece of loose turf, after a few earlier incidents, so Jimbo pulled the team off the field and promptly called it unplayable. We are assured the field will be ready for Sunday’s game. But seeing as they had all summer to get the field in pristine shape, it’s not a good look to deem the field unplayable after one soccer game, and one football game.
This of course was after an unnamed fan passed out in the heat, and summarily passed away despite attempts to revive him. No word was available about the health condition of the man, but I’ll tell you, sitting in the lower level of the stadium WAS very hot. Hotter than any Niner game I’ve attended, and I’ve been to a few hundred. Another aspect of the stadium which I mentioned earlier is the lack of shade anywhere in the seating areas. Irish Kevin did manage to score such a seat, so he’s sitting pretty in the 2nd deck, under the 3rd deck.
I just thought people were fed up with the game. Apparently they were getting crazy from the heat.
Anyhow, I posed a page with pics of the new place.
Forty Niners Forever 
Candlestick’s Revenge
And that, Chuck, is my first ever POTD.
Haah! You haven’t had one?
Great ……go to a meaningless football game and die!
The Niners played like the walking dead.
Who needs a playable field when you have solar panels, a green roof, 1,500 Wi-Fi access points, 180 different menu items including at least 1 vegan option, 15 types of wines, a FF lounge and a museum among numerous other shiny new bells and whistles? A suitable and playable grass field after only one football game is a minor detail.
Incompetent fucking mooks. I don’t care what promises they’ve made to high school teams, soccer teams, music concerts and every other Tom, Dick and Harry to use their field. Until they get shit together and that field up to snuff, it’s for 49ER GAMES ONLY. Everyone else…
Fair point Dennis.
The heat problem is something that really highlights the incompetence here. I saw a ton of 49er fans wearing shirts under their jerseys and they can be forgiven for not knowing, they were basing their attire off their past experiences.
But if the fucking team, who is there everyday, doesn’t pick up on the fact that the stadium is baking in sun all afternoon long, then this is just totally on them.
You fucking spent a bil+ on this. Put some fucking misting stations all over the stadium. Don’t want to pay for the water? Put AC’s under each seat. Sure, it will just waft away but if you want to keep your fans happy (and alive) you do it.
Or come up with something else. But come up with something. It was just inexcusable to leave those fans baking in the hot sun, that they fucking KNEW about, without some cooling plan. Not everything can be solved with a fucking app.
Get up and walk to the shade.
Grousing is more fun. Waaaaaah!
Finally….. I was beginning to fell like Rodney Dangerfield around here. I’ve been tellin’ you guys all along – Jed York and the front office are a bunch of retards. And I don’t use the term lightly because I know how sensitive 12th is to the term because his identical twin brother is retarded. This organization is run by morons. The only guy with a clue is Jim Harbaugh – and his coaching staff that follows and is loyal to Jim Harbaugh. This is the exact same cast of characters in the front office when Mike Singletary was here and the team was 6-10. Jim Harbaugh gets the funding, but Jed can’t get the temps correct. And Colonel Jessip will tell you, his intense competence, while grotesque to you, “probably saves lives.” Jed York? He’s drunk on a plane, getting into Twitter wars with Grant Cohn. But 12th and NJ can’t handle the truth, and Unca bends with the breeze.
Stadium that kills people, GM that negotiates with holdouts, wastes picks on injured players and leaves the team dreadfully thin at various positions while taking flyers on guys like Aaron Lynch? Now the grass is jacked up and Jim Harbaugh is resentful of Jed York and the organization for exploiting his success. I’m telling you guys, we might as well have Obama running the 49ers…. and Eric Holder as our GM. It’s that bad.
Some guy dies and its a “killer stadium”? York was drunk on a plane in that video clip with his family? Really? The coaches are loyal to the head coach who hired them! Jim Harbaugh funded Levi Stadium, what a guy! GM’s negotiate with holdouts, what is the world coming to??? The grass didn’t grow properly, fire the GM! The last 2 drafts have produced 21 players that almost certainly make the team, NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!
Torches and pitchforks time people, follow the Spitwad off the cliff, Leming stylie.
Spitty, you are becoming a parody even of yourself if such a thing is possible, you are the National Enquirer of blogging, i just need a few alien references and we are golden.
Oh please. I put sunscreen
on, and it was fine. It’ll be hot for a couple games a year.
Join Dennis on the ledge, Spitty.
Yeah take your meds before the final swan dive! ……ahhhhhhhhh……..splat!
The rubber paddy wagon is coming for you, Spitty . . .
Emphasis on the rubber.
The guys losing it, so far out of reality.
My condolences to the dead man, but otherwise Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. I’m from there, in fact it’s a little warmer a few miles south where I grew up, farther away from the Bay.
It gets hot there in the summer. No scheist. Practice by spending a couple days at Great America so you can learn how to dress properly and to wear a cap.
You see, I’ve never forgotten the first time I went with my Dad and my older brothers up to The City By The Bay. In the middle of summer. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt.
Mark Twain had it right.
Besides which, come October, November, December and January, if it’s not raining you’ll be singing the praises of that weather.
I personally will miss seeing Candlestick football. Because on TV all the diehards dressed in fur coats for a day game with everything blowing all over the place made for fun viewing.
Blow up the Stick in real final farewell. Go out with a bang!
What petty, irrelevant things can we argue about today? Harbaugh? Jed York? Frank Gore? Alex Boone? Trent Baalke? Blaine Gabbert?
I’ll tell you one thing: The way Blaine Gabbert is throwing the football, and the way Brandon Lloyd is playing, we might carry 3 qbs and 6 receivers. That’ll leave us really thin someplace else. And we’re already banged up, thin or inexperienced at DL, linebacker, secondary, O line and running back. Interesting decisions and petty arguments.
^ wides I can see, highly doubt 3 QB. Harbs will look around on cut down day if Gabbert hasn’t shown much by then.
Gabbert’s 2 million guaranteed makes it doubtful, but if he can’t win you need other options. I think he needs a few years under Harbaugh. Maybe a few lifetimes.
$2m is a high price to pay for failure but cheap if it means they gain a viable back up QB for game day. It’s a tough pill to swallow but not big enough to choke on IMO.
I haven’t written off Gabbert just yet but he sure as shit needs to show something more and real soon.
Hey look! We agree on something. Stop the presses!
6 wides
Frankly I’m baffled that people didn’t take into account that it’s hotter in the south bay than in SF. Like 20-30 degrees in some cases.
I mean, it was pretty hot in there, but to think you’d come to SJ and think it’s going to be like going to the Stick is nuts.
What happens if the A’s move down there? They get a dome because it’s too warm in the summer?
Think it gets hot in Florida? So Cal? People should try a USC game down here some time. Somehow Nor Cal peeps are to be coddled on a hot day and the Stadium should know this and prevent it? It goes from the sublime to the ridiculous, these faux arguments are a joke and Spitty is the comedian.
I’ll be in Vegas on the 23rd.
It’s hot there Spit, be careful of “Killer Vegas”.
Lets see Gabbert or the tough turf……..which is the biggest bust?
Its a tie so far.
I’d say Gabbert. The grass has a shot to grow . . .
With Gabbert”s fertilizer?
Well, he IS shitting all over the field.
If he aimed for the field he’d miss.
One liner Friday here already?
Boone is still a dumbass for thinking holding the teams’ fortunes hostage is a good way to thank them for taking a chance on him when no one else was willing to and helping him become a good player.
York is still a dumbass for thinking he can get away with killing off good fans in the sun.
Harbaugh is still a dumbass for teaching Boone how to act like a dumbass with his contract.
Baalke is a dumbass to associate his name with the likes of the above dumbasses.
Looking forward to team dumbass taking the field Sunday if they have grass on it by then.
Nice shots of the stadium, Chuck.
I wish they would have used some that sign board space for a ring of honor of sorts.
Thanks.
I’m sure they’ll do something eventually. But there is the museum there. Haven’t seen it yet.