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LOOK: Levi's Stadium is almost empty for Buccaneers-49ers game
CBS Sports ^ | October 23, 2016 | John Breech

Posted on 10/24/2016 1:12:06 PM PDT by kevcol

If no one goes to a 49ers game, does it actually happen?

The answer to that question is yes, because the 49ers' 34-17 loss to the Buccaneers on Sunday is definitely going to count in the standings, even though almost no one showed up for the game.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 49ers; anthem; boycott; kaepernick; nfl
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Off topic, but why are the stadium lights on at an afternoon game??? Isn’t that a huge waste;

The lights are generally on for daytime NFL games, and for a lot of other events if they are nationally televised. The networks want them on to minimize shadows or any other change in the picture caused by cloud cover or the setting sun.


21 posted on 10/24/2016 1:28:18 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kevcol

I didn’t go to the game. Best 49er’s game I never saw.


22 posted on 10/24/2016 1:28:43 PM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: Calvin Locke

Isn’t it illegal in most states to sell or advertise a target depicting an actual person, or is that just MA?


23 posted on 10/24/2016 1:29:23 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes a lot of people get season tickets hoping to sell the game tickets on StubHub. Looks like there weren’t many takers.


24 posted on 10/24/2016 1:30:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kevcol

Your posted pic is one major reason the 49er stands are empty.


25 posted on 10/24/2016 1:30:08 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittanc)
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To: kevcol

We went to a high school game at the same stadium, two years ago to watch DeLasalle beat another good high school team.

There may have been as many people at the high school game.

It still took two hours to get out of the traffic jam and on to a crowded freeway on a Saturday.


26 posted on 10/24/2016 1:30:27 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

With LGBT activist Levi’s and Kaepernick, not much left to cheer about there.


27 posted on 10/24/2016 1:30:47 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: kevcol

When I decided to boycott the games I thought I was really going to miss the games. Turns out that I now don’t miss them at all. It was tough the Sunday the Skins played Dallas but now I don’t even notice.


28 posted on 10/24/2016 1:32:06 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: kevcol

After 28 years of Niner devotion, I am solidly #NeverNiners due to Jed York and Crappernick - who BTW deserve each other.


29 posted on 10/24/2016 1:35:13 PM PDT by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: kevcol

Trumpfault.


30 posted on 10/24/2016 1:35:30 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Stentor

“Chip Kelly is a black hole who will suck all joy out of a professional football franchise.”

There are rumors that Chipster will be back coaching a college team next fall.


31 posted on 10/24/2016 1:36:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: kevcol

Unfortunately the NFL is a cartel where profits are shared across teams. SF will still gets cuts from TV deals and such.


32 posted on 10/24/2016 1:37:15 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: txrefugee

Instead of burning down a CVS, Kaepernick is burning down the NFL.


33 posted on 10/24/2016 1:39:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: pgkdan
You are exactly the type of person I've had in mind when I tell people that no fans are boycotting the NFL this season.

Most fans who say they are boycotting are never going to come back, because once they find something else to do on Sunday afternoons they realize that watching an NFL game on TV is an enormous waste of their time. Most of these "boycotting" fans will never come back even if Colin K. gets a haircut and starts standing up respectfully for the national anthem ... even if he publicly endorses Donald Trump.

34 posted on 10/24/2016 1:40:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: kevcol

Last nights snooze game between Seattle and Arizona will drive down NFL TV ratings even further - no touchdowns, continuous penalties by both teams, missed field goals, and finally a tie score 6-6 at the end of overtime.


35 posted on 10/24/2016 1:41:27 PM PDT by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: CreviceTool

“After 28 years of Niner devotion, I am solidly #NeverNiners due to Jed York and Crappernick - who BTW deserve each other.”

I have close to 5 decades of being a 49 fan.

Now I am a former Niner fan. Jeb and Colon deserve each other.


36 posted on 10/24/2016 1:42:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Don’t know. That’s why I posed it as a silhouette. Didn’t some Letterman-produced show have a GWB target while he was POTUS?


37 posted on 10/24/2016 1:44:35 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Political Junkie Too
And I bet it was still gridlock getting out of there.

At least it's not like the old days at Candlestick. Traffic from the game was routed over surface streets through the Hunters Point neighborhood, AKA the hood. Leaving a Monday night game used to be exciting.

BTW, I went to nfl.com and looked at the highlights. They were scrupulously avoiding showing the crowd, or lack there of. Never seen so much turf in a highlight reel.

38 posted on 10/24/2016 1:45:49 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
They planned that stadium purposely with no parking. They expected to use local business parking lots that were empty on Sundays, plus a nearby golf course, plus a light rail.

That means dumping 80,000 people onto ordinary surface streets, from all directions, all at once.

-PJ

39 posted on 10/24/2016 1:49:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Alberta's Child
even if he publicly endorses Donald Trump.

Endorsing Donald Trump might woo me back...but nothing short of that.

40 posted on 10/24/2016 1:52:10 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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