Report: If Niners are triumphant, parade to be held in San Francisco
The 49ers don’t want to get caught celebrating early, but it appears they’re already making plans for a Super Bowl parade through the streets of San Francisco.
Super Bowl LIV is the first time the 49ers have had to plan a championship parade since moving to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, so there was concern among some wondering where a possible celebration would take place.
But fret not, Faithful of The City: The Lombardi Trophy will ride down Market Street rather than Great America Parkway, according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Scott Ostler.
Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown served up the intel to Ostler, saying he wasn’t in the city’s discussions with the team, but was near enough to hear: “The only question is, how in the hell do we pay for it?”
Ostler also reported a potential parade would be on Wednesday, Feb. 5, citing an anonymous source who surely didn’t want to jinx the Niners.
The Niners have had a somewhat contentious relationship with the city of Santa Clara, so negotiations on how to pay for a parade there might have featured extra sticking points beside the fact that it would not have the gravitas of a San Francisco parade.
Another option with a larger downtown area near the 49ers’ facility would have been San Jose, but with no team ties to the city, that would make little sense.
Both the Chiefs’ practice facility and Arrowhead Stadium are within Kansas City, Missouri’s, borders, so should the 49ers lose next Sunday there would be little discussion of where to host a parade.
• As Super Bowl LIV approaches, you can expect an all-out blitz of 49ers-related programming from Bay Area radio and TV outlets.
Getting into the act in a big way is KNBR, the 49ers flagship station, which will air replays of all five of the 49ers’ Super Bowl victories over two weekends.
KNBR’s “Quest for Six Marathon” launches today and will air in threehour blocks from 9 a.m. to midnight. The marathon then will re-air next Saturday, Feb. 1. Here is the schedule:
• 9 a.m.-noon: Super Bowl XVI (Jan. 24, 1982)
• Noon-3 p.m.: Super Bowl XIX (Jan. 20, 1985)
• 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.: Super Bowl XXIII (Jan. 22, 1989)
• 6 p.m.- 9 p.m.: Super Bowl XIV (Jan. 28, 1990)
• 9 p.m.-midnight: Super Bowl XIX (Jan. 29, 1995)
KNBR program director Jeremiah Crowe reports that the audio for these games was unearthed through “a colossal effort” on the behalf of the 49ers, local broadcasters, local producers, NFL Films & Westwood One.
• At one U.S. sportsbook, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan is a long shot to blow another 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl. Bookmakers in Indiana and New Jersey are busy stirring up odds on which color of Gatorade will be dumped on the winning coach, and the coin flip is already dividing the betting public.
The annual phenomenon that is Super Bowl prop betting has begun, and when it’s over, millions of dollars will be on the line practically every play.
This week, sportsbooks around the nation released hundreds of proposition bets on Super Bowl LIV between the 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. Bookmaker William Hill U.S. boasted of having more than 1,000 ways to bet on the big game. The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook on Thursday released 33 pages of wagers and took more than $500,000 in bets in the first 12 hours they were on the board.
“It’s a crazy scene,” said John Murray, executive director for the SuperBook. “It really is.”