#49ers-fandom

#49ers-fandom

According to data shared with SFGATE by AirDNA - an analytics firm focused on STR companies like Airbnb - this year there were roughly 500 more listings added in Santa Clara County for the week of Feb. 2 compared with last year. The county had about 3,200 available listing nights for that week in February last year, but that has jumped to roughly 3,700 this year for the week during the Super Bowl.

Downtown San Jose was more alive today than at any point I can remember. Every street was packed, music was everywhere from the stages to the lowriders cruising the streets, and street food was abundant all throughout the area. San Pedro Square was booming, but so was SoFA, and all of Santa Clara Street. The free drone show at Discovery Meadows was also excellent. If you have the opportunity to get to Downtown tomorrow, take it.

Scott Graves, budget director with the California Budget and Policy Center, said Proposition 36 is what is called a "ballot box budgeting measure". "The authors of the measure did not provide, as a part of Prop 36, any way to pay for these new services," Graves said. "As a result, they ended up putting state and local policy makers in a pretty tough position."

Of course, Brady is the executive producer of this series (via his Religion of Sports production company), and it's well-known he grew up as a die-hard 49ers fan. At a red carpet event ahead of the San Francisco premiere last week, Brady's production partner Gotham Chopra said this specific project has been a long time coming from the seven-time Super Bowl champion. "Tom is football, through and through - it's the love of his life. And I think that love was born and conceived with the 49ers," Chopra said. "... I think this is a story he's always wanted to tell, and it started to come together three or four years ago."

Your San Francisco 49ers came into an unusual Saturday night NFL game with a sterling 12-4 record and a glorious fairy tale scenario in front of them: beat the Seattle Seahawks, which would win them the Number 1 seed in the NFC, and they would have home field advantage all the way through the Super Bowl which is being played at Levi's Stadium.

While the flag-football Pro Bowl kicked off events at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Tuesday night, the South Bay is jumping with events. For a complete guide, visit Metro 's special Super Bowl edition. Friday is the big day in San Jose, with a sold-out open-air Big Game Block Party at City Hall with Oakland's Kehlani, fresh from her double Grammy win, followed by a 10pm spectacular drone light show in the sky above Discovery Meadow near the Children's Discovery Museum.

It's not like coming back home is anything novel for Austin Hooper, who still visits De La Salle's campus in the summer to train with his high school alma mater after 10 years in the NFL. And this isn't his first Super Bowl, either. But both? At the same time? That's what makes this one that much more special, the New England Patriots tight end told the Bay Area News Group this week.