NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

BrutulTM

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Grimmlokk_sl said:
49ers Santa Clara: Why didnt San Francisco try harder to keep its football team from moving out?

Why did the San Francisco 49ers move to Santa Clara? - Quora
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They moved to Santa Clara because San Francisco is full of NIMBYs and sanctimonious douche bags who don't care about football and also there is no room because it's on a packed peninsula and the only place they offered the 49ers was a radioactive superfund site in the middle of the ghetto. Getting to Candlestick from downtown SF was a nightmare as well and it was also in the ghetto with almost no public transportation and hellish traffic. I'm no fan of Jed York but I don't blame him for going to Santa Clara at all. They tried for a good 10 years to get a stadium built in SF proper and got nowhere. Anything you try to build in SF there is a 100% chance that a coalition will form against you even if it's just a public bathroom. It's a god damn miracle that the Giants got their stadium built.
 
Alex

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What's funny is Bayview is the one of the last neighborhoods that hasn't been gentrified and it's starting there. That's where all the new breweries, distilleries, restaurants, and housing is going. I actually was just hanging there on Friday night. Granted, the transit to get there is still pretty shady in terms of the people you're riding with, but it's going to get better. Especially now that the new Warriors stadium looks likely. Right along the T-line that eventually ends up in that neighborhood.
 
Merrith

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Xevy_sl said:
I.. wait what?
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Seriously?

Professional career
1983 NFL Draft

In the 1983 NFL Draft Elway was selected as the first overall pick by the Baltimore Colts. (He is one of three quarterbacks in the history of the draft to be chosen first and later be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The other two are Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman.)[20] Elway was wary of playing for the Colts, then among the worst teams in the league, and his father advised him against playing for head coach Frank Kush, who had a reputation as a harsh taskmaster. While Elway preferred football his agent Marvin Demoff later stated that baseball was "a true option" for him at the time. More importantly, the possibility gave Elway leverage in negotiations with the Colts.[18]

After unsuccessfully attempting to negotiate a private agreement with the Colts in which Elway would cite his alleged desire to remain on the West coast to explain the team trading him, Elway publicly threatened to join the Yankees full-time if the Colts did not trade him; Demoff wrote in his journal, published three decades later, that "he would be a garbage collector before he'd play for Baltimore." Elway's refusal to join the Colts was controversial? Bradshaw denounced him, stating "you should play baseball ? he's not the kind of guy you win championships with"?but many other NFL teams began negotiations with the Colts for the quarterback. One possibility was trading Elway for the San Francisco 49ers' Joe Montana, whose team had had a poor 1982 season. Another was a trade with the San Diego Chargers, which was negotiating a new contract with its star quarterback Dan Fouts. The New England Patriots were interested, but the Colts did not wish to trade Elway to a team in the same division.[18]

The Colts' general manager Ernie Accorsi badly wanted Elway as, Accorsi later said, he (correctly) did not foresee the 1984 Draft as producing any first-round quarterbacks, and announced Elway as the team's choice as soon as possible during the 15-minute window on draft day, surprising observers. Elway that day reiterated his wish to not play for the Colts at a press conference, saying "As I stand here right now, I'm playing baseball". (When a reporter pointed out that the Yankees were not based on the West coast, Elway replied "They play baseball during the summertime".) The Colts, however, were interested in offensive lineman Chris Hinton, who the Denver Broncos had chosen as the fourth pick in the first round. On 2 May Colts owner Robert Irsay and Accorsi agreed to trade Elway for Hinton, backup quarterback Mark Herrmann, and a first-round pick in 1984 (used to select Ron Solt)
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Tenks_sl said:
I'm not sure if I ever really heard a good answer on why it was put there. I'm sure it comes down to cost and it was the best spot while remaining close-ish to the city. But like the Atlanta stadiums moving to the suburbs I understand their logic and I'm sure SF had their reasons I just never heard them.
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The stadium keeps the vampires away.
 
Merrith

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Famm_sl said:
Lotta people in Baltimore fucking hate Denver and Elway to this day.
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Was more directed at Xevy not knowing the history. But hey, they were still in Baltimore then. Probably helped them ditching Charm City.
 
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Convo_sl said:
I'm on the winning side of everything!
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