Field of Schemes
sports stadium news and analysis

  

This is an archived version of a Field of Schemes article. Comments on this page are closed. To find the current version of the article with updated comments, click here.

January 31, 2012

Santa Clara files lawsuit against 49ers stadium referendum

It looks like the San Francisco 49ers court battle has begun: Santa Clara Plays Fair is reporting (still not on their website, but they sent out a press release [UPDATE: now it's online]) that the city of Santa Clara has filed suit against the group's petition filing for a referendum on the revised stadium plan. The city had previously indicated that it felt the referendum was illegal, since a 49ers stadium plan (albeit not this one) was previously approved by voters in 2010; now the matter will be up to a judge — or in all likelihood, several, as it works its way through the inevitable appeals.

In other 49ers news, plenty of fans are still hopping mad about the sky-high prices for season tickets plus personal seat licenses that were unveiled last month. We'll see how many of them actually carry through with their threat to cancel their season plans once they're offered the chance to downgrade to cheaper, crappier seats — that helped alleviate some of the sticker shock faced by the New York Yankees, among others — but it can't be a good sign that one longtime season ticket holder is actually threatening to become an Oakland Raiders fan.

COMMENTS

And the yankees are still selling out the big mallpark in the bronx, right? Oh, wait, they're not?

hmmn...

Posted by David Gratt on January 31, 2012 10:08 AM

As a Santa Clara resident, I am very pleased the 49'ers are pricing the tickets and PSL's so high.

I hope they are successful, but judging from the tone of those interviewed for the article, I bet they still fall way short of revenue projections

Posted by scbruin on January 31, 2012 12:33 PM

Latest News Items

CONTACT US FOR AD RATES