[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
My grandmother got season tickets to the 49ers back in 1979 when they drafted Montana. She’s a HUGE Notre Dame fan, loved Montana (she still wears a throwback Montana ND jersey to the games) and was convinced he was going to bring them to multiple titles and wanted to be onboard for the ride. I’m serious, she was that clairvoyant.
I’ve been splitting the tickets with her for about 12 years now, since my grandfather died. But next year is going to be the last year for us, as well as my parents, who have had season tickets since 1990.
I don’t know what it is, but the atmosphere at the games just isn’t what it used to be. At the Niners’ games half the crowd are a bunch of cholo gangbangers and these fuckers are fighting with other 49ers fans as much as they fight with the opposing team’s fans. It’s a booze-filled shit show at these games and as fun as they are at times, it gets fucking nasty at times.
Last year there were some fans who kept calling this black couple who were rooting for the Steelers a “bunch of niggers”. The Steelers fans texted security over and the racist pricks were ejected. Except that their buddies were sitting two rows behind the Steelers fans and got pissed that their friends were booted, so what does one of them do?
He literally walked up to the couple and punched BOTH of them right in the fucking face. The woman AND the man got decked. And I sit on the 49ers side of the field in the third row of the second deck on the 45-yard line. Those are expensive seats there and you’d think that in that area the crowd would be more civilized. Not so. I don’t even want to know what it’s like in the upper bowels of Candlestick.
It’s probably going to be a better atmosphere when they move to their new stadium, but I really don’t feel like paying 80K per ticket for the PSL just to sit in a comparable location to where I am now. Plus, I might not even be living in California in two years anyways. The last couple seasons I’ve been giving my ticket to my cousin and have just been traveling down for the big games. I gotta admit, I really enjoy just watching the games in the comfort of my own home these days.[/quote]
Can you put your finger on a moment in time when the SF fanbase went gangster? Under which head coaching regime?
It’s interesting, SF and the bay area is a pretty diverse region. I’m sure there’s still the speed racin’ white trash of Hunter S’s Hells Angels up there, as well as the Cholos, gangbangers and the Silicon Valley types all co-existing in one region. San Diego might be similar, but overall the Charger fans that are gangster are kind of Cholo-light. You just don’t look hard when you’re wearing a powder blue Seau jersey even if you have Mary’s hands tattood on the top of your head.
Do you think the Cholo SF fans became SF fans because their adversaries are gang(s) that use Raider colors?
I understand that Fresno State has or at lease had a ganster problem within their fanbase too. Crazy.
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It just kind of happened. It slowly developed when the Niners went through a decade of futility, combined with the fact that their tickets were pretty cheap back then, and still are. A lot of the old-time fans stopped going and the fucking degenerates who couldn’t afford tickets or didn’t know anyone who had them suddenly had much more access.
It’s partially the booze thing too. Every single one of those ugly incidents can be traced back to alcohol, period. I would have no problem whatsoever with banning alcohol entirely in the parking lot and the stadium. The degenerates have ruined it for the few people who can get completely shit-faced in peace.
