I couldn't believe that the new 49ers stadium (in Santa Clara) cost a trillion dollars, so I looked it up. It cost $1.2 billion [1] - a "gigabuck" rather than a "terabuck." To put that in perspective, a single office building in nearby Palo Alto just sold for $300 million. [2]

Judging from the people driving up and down 101 with flags flying, the people wearing 49ers jerseys year-round in San Jose, the big BBQs hanging off the big trucks in the parking lot of games, and the truck commercials that litter televised football, the new car-centric location suits the football team nicely.

I'd be much more upset if the SF Giants decided to move out of the city!

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23414780/49ers-new-stadium-cos... [2] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/03/11/tibco-sel...

In other news, applying SI prefixes to atypical units is really fun. It reminds me of how civil engineers use kilo-pounds aka "kips."

Er, what? San Francisco didn't put a penny in the 49ers stadium. It's in Santa Clara because they were the ones willing to pay for it. Completely different entity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi%27s_Stadium#Financing_and_...

Don't worry, the site has poor access by car as well as by transit! (It's not particularly close to 101; it's closish to 237, but 237 is terrible, etc)

Could be worse, the SJ Earthquake's stadium is adjacent to caltrain, but you have to take a crazy bus route to get there. You can see it, but you can't walk to it.