SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — All the talk right now is about Super Bowl 50, but the first Bay Area Super Bowl was 31 years ago in Palo Alto.
KRON talked with some San Francisco 49ers fans who said it was much, much different.
“I never get excited about any Super Bowl unless the 49ers are in it,” 49ers fan Warren Spiegel said.
Spiegel is telling it like it is. It’s not that he is bummed out about a Bay Area Super Bowl. But he just likes to remember the Bay Area Super Bowl the Niners were in, the one he went to back in 1985 at the old Stanford Stadium against the Miami Dolphins.
“And the weather that day was foggy and drizzly for the whole game,” Spiegel said.
Warren’s son Phil was at the game with his father. In fact, their family kept the seat cushions they sat on at the game.
The old Apple logo is big and bold on the front side of the cushions. It’s a good thing they had seat cushions because Phil remembers the hardwood benches at the stadium.
“Candlestick wasn’t great, but it was all I knew and this was a lot worse than Candlestick,” Phil said.
And there was not even a wall in the bathroom.
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“The men’s urinals in each one of the bathrooms faced the outside perimeter of the stadium where the people walked around,” Spiegel said. “You could look out at them, and…they looked in at you, and they knew exactly what you were doing.”
As for the traffic in 1985, it doesn’t seem to compare to what we’ve seen in San Francisco in 2016.
The 49ers won that Super Bowl, but some other teams have joined in on the winning fun.
“The Giants and the Warriors right now, (you’re like) how much better can it be if you’re a Giants fan or Warrior fan…? Well, that’s what it was being a Niners fan when I was a kid,” Phil said.
Both Phil and Warren could be called optimistic Niners fans. Phil is now the family season ticket holder.
His dad says he’d love to go back to the Super Bowl but only if the Niners are in it.
“If it came down to it, you’d probably rather the Super Bowl be in Japan if it meant the 49ers were in it,” Spiegel said.
Phil said he is actually most excited about all of these events in San Francisco. Warren said he actually paid $60 a ticket to go to that Super Bowl back in 1985 and that includes taxes.