The Zong

Uh oh.

In a significant hurdle to bringing the NFL to the South Bay, the Ohio-based company that controls the San Francisco 49ers’ proposed stadium site in Santa Clara said Friday that it opposes the project - at least for now.

Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. has been in talks with the 49ers since before the team announced plans in November to build a 68,500-seat stadium adjacent to the amusement park. But based on the “limited information” the 49ers have provided, CEO Dick Kinzel recently concluded the stadium could damage Great America because of the loss of parking, traffic issues, and during construction, the impact of noise, dust and inconvenience for Great America patrons, a spokeswoman said.

I guess that could be a problem. This all came a few days back, right before NFL officials came to tour both sites, making it obvious through public statements that they’d like to keep out of the smelly streams of piss coming from the collective urethrae of the York and Newsom camps.

On the San Francisco site:

Neil Glat, a senior vice president with the NFL, called the view “pretty terrific.”

Hunters Point is “right there on the water and could be a special place, but the devil’s always in the details and those infrastructure issues can be thorny issues,” and environmental “remediation issues can be time-consuming and costly,” he said.

On the Santa Clara site:

 After Tuesday’s tour, Glat called the Santa Clara site “beautiful” and “very doable for an NFL facility” but said he didn’t want to compare it to Hunters Point.“Every site is different and every site has different potential and different opportunities,” he said.

Inexplicably, Jed York’s heart is still in Santa Clara. I’m not sure what the young prince has been reading, but it certainly isn’t the same shit I’ve been talking about.

“We’re still focused 100 percent on Santa Clara, and I think we’re getting pretty close to something in Santa Clara,” Jed York said in an interview with the Mercury News. “I think we are getting close to the point where we see there’s a big light at the end of the tunnel.”

Getting close to the point where we see there’s a big light at the end of the tunnel, huh? When will we be getting close to approaching a strategy to begin to stop starting conversations and where we might be getting close to planning a solution for beginning to draw up some preliminary blueprints so that we can get close to the point where the team is playing in a new fucking stadium?

- M.G.