The San Francisco 49ers — investigating why Levi’s Stadium is getting emptier with each passing Sunday — continue to ask fans and season ticket holders if winning is important.
On Wednesday, Ann Killion of the San Francisco Chronicle learned the winless San Francisco 49ers sent fans and season ticket holders a post-game questionnaire that included a rather peculiar question:
With “Levi’s Stadium tickets reselling at all-time low prices,” the 49ers can probably remove the first option:
Have the five-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers forgotten the importance of winning?
Like many Niner fans say, “The Stick was a dump, but it was our dump.” Candlestick didn’t cost over a billion dollars, and it didn’t have an app or a sustainable “green roof” or Dungeness crab salad sandwiches.
Yet Candlestick was packed, because more often than not, the Niners were winning football games; these were the days when the 49ers got into trouble for spending too much, not for spending too little:
Winning — of course — cures everything. A team that moves its stadium an hour away, overcharges their fans and then forces those fans to roast in the sun will still have a happy fanbase and a packed stadium — provided they put a winning product on the field.
But if a team does all those things, and then fails to stay competitive — winning just one home game over the past two seasons — then it should expect the stadium to look a lot like this:
The San Francisco 49ers appeared to take a step in the right direction last offseason. Let’s hope their efforts translate into wins before they run out of season ticket holders to complete their questionnaires.
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