49er's get sacked by Great America

[Paradise]

Cedar Fair has their panties all in a bunch over the new proposed stadium for the 49ers.....good read...here
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-headli ... ck_check=1

[Coaster Justin]

They're Right, the 49ers Should build a New Stadium. It won't hurt California's Great America in any way.

I'm also Going to Go to Six Flags Astroworld and see that the Reliant Stadium didn't hurt them Either (Yeah, Right).


Sorry, I'm Not A Sports Fan.

[Paradise]

Okay...but what about people who travel there and after/before the game, ride some coasters...I'd imagine that would bring in some more people. I don't see what the big deal is honestly? I can't see this being bad for the park. If anything, I see it bringing more people in. It'll expose the park to game-goers as well if they've never heard of GA.

[tillenterprises]

Okay...but what about people who travel there and after/before the game, ride some coasters...I'd imagine that would bring in some more people. I don't see what the big deal is honestly? I can't see this being bad for the park. If anything, I see it bringing more people in. It'll expose the park to game-goers as well if they've never heard of GA.

Doesn't Great America close for the season after October anyway? For half of the 49ers season, the park wouldn't be open anyway.

[FParker185]

I think the main problem here is the city annexing a huge chunk of Great Americas Parking lot which the park makes money off of. Also while the 49'ers will play there, generally for most stadiums they hold a wide range of events year round including concerts, other sports games, and other random things(anyone remember WeedFest at Soldier Field back in the day)

With all these event days traffic in the area is going to be a nightmare and people are going to start avoiding the park on days when stuff is happening at the stadium., so any people who check out a game then head to the park will be offset by people who never showed up in the first place. Also a appreciable percentage of people come out of sports games completely trashed and ready to start trouble especially if their team lost.

It creates a whole mess of problems for Great America.

Honestly if I was Cedar Fair I'd close up PGA without notice and move all the rides to other parks and bulldoze what's left and sell the land to a developer. City would be hurting bad without that tax $$, stadium or not.

[Coaster Justin]

^ Cause that was Beautiful for Geauga Lake.

[FParker185]

Well sometimes there is a good point to be made. Kinda show cities that are taking advantage of parks that without the park the city suddenly has nothing. If CF closed up GA over this, I bet KI's tax problems would disappear in a big hurry.

Plus it's not like an awesome park would disappear. I'm going to guess most people here haven't been to PGA, I can say without reservation, you're not missing anything.

Geauga was just a total dump that CF knew was beyond fixing and if they did try to fix it up it would just compete with CP.