U.C. Berkeley is renovating its football stadium in 2011, and the Golden Bears need a place to squat for a year. They could go to the Oakland Coliseum, which happens to be nearby and happens to host football already, or they could go to Candlestick Park which, while farther away, has a full-time football configuration these days.
Nope, they’d rather bunk with the San Francisco Giants:
Of the three venues, AT&T Park has by far the smallest football capacity (45,000). Candlestick holds 69,732, while the Coliseum can accommodate 63,132. But athletic director Sandy Barbour said all of the advantages that AT&T Park provides outweigh the potential for smaller crowds, especially because the move is for only one season.
They lay the reasons all out, but they all seem to be euphemisms for “it’s just so much more fashionable to be in San Francisco than in the East Bay!”
Here’s hoping for a World Series with yardlines going across the outfield. We haven’t had one of those for a while.
