Real quick...what lives in Silicon Valley, is run by a silver-spooned CEO with little or no actual experience, has billions in corporate sponsorships, is all green everything, and has hundreds of thousands of angry investors? A Dot Com Start Up? Yes! How about the San Francisco 49ers? Yes!
This team is raking in millions with damn near 100% corporate dollars supporting the new stadium. Levi's Stadium hosted Wrestlemania, and is hosting Super Bowl 50 this year. The team sells out every game, and boasted 61k fans for the preseason game against the Cowboys. Jed York is winning.
But as a sports fan, and someone who's had season tickets for almost 10 years, Jed York is losing where it counts most - on the field. He lost game changing starters, and gained when their salaries came off the books. Guys that were getting paid millions, like Justin Smith, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, even Chris Borland. What did Jed do to compensate for these huge losses off the field? Nothing. Why? Because football is a business and the 49ers are his dot com startup. Why spend more money when you know your team has no chance? Why sign or trade for a guy that could bolster your Offensive Line like Evan Mathis, when you can save the money and your team will have the same result?
When Jed sits there and waxes poetic about the glory days with his Uncle Eddie, and how he was just a little chap in the Candlestick locker room, etc., this really means nothing. He is not committed to winning on the field. If he was committed to winning, the 49ers would have spent some money on able replacements. If he did care about winning Tom Jimsula wouldn't be the most inexperienced head coach in the history of the NFL. If he did care about winning, he would hold a press conference addressing the personnel losses, turnover, etc, which he hasn't done. He's been silent. He's been counting his cash and preparing for a Super Bowl his own team has no chance of participating in.
If you are running a business, especially some shitty startup for some app, you save where you can. Once the core product is built, you can either expand on it and make it greater and seek to conquer the game, or you can sit there and let it run its course. It's plain to see Jed's focus is not on improving the team or spending money. And he doesn't need to explain it to anyone. He's typical Silicon Valley silver-spooned scum. He's never struggled for anything in life, and probably never will. A spoiled dot com CEO who moved the proudest franchise in sports to his domain, so he didn't have to travel everyday and so he could be closer to his favorite Zagat rated haunts in Santana Row.
Meanwhile, we, the real fans who stay loyal to the team and the players, are probably going to suffer watching another sub .500 season. Watching Kap run for his life with the shittiest offensive line in the history of the NFL in front of him. Watching everyone in Sili-Clara prosper as it plays host to the 2 best teams in football in SB50. There's an app for that, it's called the 49ers.
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