I guess this makes it official.
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49ers ask fans if winning games is important to them
Posted by Darin Gantt on October 27, 2017
Getty Images/Jed York
The 49ers are doing
many admirable things in the community. They are not winning very many football games.
And they’re wondering, genuinely it seems, whether their paying customers care about that.
Via Ray Ratto of NBC Sports Bay Area, one of the questions on a survey sent to fans was: “
How important is winning to your stadium experience?”
It seems to not be going well.
The 49ers are 0-7 at the moment, haven’t won a home game in more than a year (since last year’s opener against the Rams), and are a sparkling 7-32 since choosing to part ways with coach Jim Harbaugh.
So perhaps owner Jed York is hoping that his customers won’t mind so much, since the stadium is new and pretty, and they got to host a Super Bowl, and have a brand new coach-G.M. combo to go about the latest rebuild of a once-proud franchise.
It’s one thing to ask your customers if they think bathroom lines are too long, or beers are too expensive. But to ask fans who come to a sporting competition in exchange for money if the outcome of said competition is important is insulting, and another bit of ammunition for those who think NFL owners are far more worried about the bottom line than anything their team does between the white ones.
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Next question should read:
As a fan, do you think you could run this team better than Jed York?
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I don’t even know where to start. You fired our best coach since Seifert because your feelings got hurt. You moved the team to Santa Clara. You built the worst stadium in football. The stat of 7-32 since Harbaugh left is all you need to see. Here is to another decade of irrelevance. Sell the team Jed to owners that care about winning.
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If the team gets blown out before halftime, the fans can leave the stadium early and beat the traffic. That’s a win for everybody.
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The 49ers never wanted to hire Jim Harbaugh in the first place. We were in a deep recession and they were having a heck of a time securing public money for their new stadium. At the urging of Bill Walsh they hired Harbaugh and instantly went from the worst team to the best team.
Then they hired silicon valley guru Gideon Yu to put a stadium deal together. They even gave Yu 5% of the team. The moment the stadium deal was secured, they pulled the rug out from under Harbaugh and started a media campaign against him.
Now the franchise is worth way more than it was before. The York’s are happy campers. They see themselves as very successful. Winning is the furthest thing from their goal. They keep revolving coaches to make it appear like they care.
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This is amazing, he can’t be THAT dumb, can he???
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I needed a good laugh today and this article provided it. It’s remarkable that NFL owners can be so astoundingly dumb and out of touch.
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Seriously? He actually asked that?
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John Lynch should walk into Jed’s office and slap the sh!t out of him.