49er's to the South Bay?

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If the Niners move to Vegas I may end my life. If they move to Santa Clara can they still be called the San Francisco 49ers? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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It's a little farther from Candlestick Point to Santa Clara than it is from Flushing Queens to East Rutherford, NJ, but the precedent is already there.

Google maps measures from arbitraty city centers, but I did some quick lookups, and the distance is about the same as:

- LA - Anaheim
- Detroit - Auburn Hills
- Boston - Foxborough (this doesn't really count for naming, though)

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Well the issue is more one of association. Auburn Hills, for example, has no real identity to outsiders the way Detroit does, so the team being located there isn't really changing the team's identity as a Detroit team.

I don't know California that well, so I don't know if Santa Clara has enough stand-alone identity (I need a better term for this) to cause a change in the team's identity with regard to its location, but if that were the case, it might be a legit issue.

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They've got the Paramount Great America theme park, University Chicken (AKA Cluck U) and a private college that produced Steve Nash, Randy Winn, and dropped their football team.

I think the San Francisco 49ers will continue on with their name. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]