10 traits that set 49ers fans apart from rest of the NFL
By Peter Panacy
No. 6: 49ers’ old home at Candlestick Park is sacred and should be honored
Admit it, as a Niners fan, you’re saddened by the reality that Candlestick Park, the team’s home from 1971 through 2013, is no more.
You might drive up Highway 101 just south of San Francisco and look at what once used to be, recalling those frigid September and October days and how, like some of us, you spent your spring and summer watching the San Francisco Giants play there, only to strip off your black and orange to don the red and gold for 49ers games once football season came around.
Seriously, for many a Niners fan, Candlestick Park was as familiar as our high school.
Even though “The Stick” is no more, it remains sacred.
What’ll set San Francisco fans apart from the rest of the NFL is the fact we won’t take any slander about how odd the interior looked, one of the final holdovers from those dual-purpose stadiums of the 1970s. Nor will we accept any flak about it being a dump from any other non-49ers fan.
Although we might agree it was a dump, it was “our dump,” quoting Dwight Clark himself.