Talk:Candlestick Park

Cost of new name
When 3COM changed the name of the park to 3Com Park they had to change all the road signs for the freeway including the signs that said "3com park 5 [miles]". I remember it was some ridiculously large sum of money. Does anyone know how much that cost? If you say how much it cost to build, and have a big deal going on about the name changes, you might as well say how much it costs to change all the traffic signs. Also, did they have to pay for it to be renamed back to SF stadium since it wasn't bought by another company at that time or was that part of the original contract?Billy Nair 23:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Move to new name
if the offical name of the stadium is now SF stadium at Candlestick point should not the page be moved to San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.12.117.10 (talk • contribs).

As I understand it the convention is to use common names for things, but to list the official name in the first sentence.--Samuel J. Howard 01:07, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Right. See Naming conventions (common names). - Hephaestos|&#167; 01:09, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

I would respectfully disagree, don't most people in the bay area and sports fans in US call it the stick? so we would should list by that by that standard. Here in St Paul alot if not most of the people call the Xcel Energy Center just Xcel Center or the X Smith03 01:13, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

"The Stick" is a slang reference, and it's not used much more commonly than "Candlestick". Yours, Meelar 01:15, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

So would there be a huge outcry of protest if the page was moved? Smith03 01:59, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Time to move now. The city finally found a new naming rights sponsor, and the stadium is now officially Monster Park. Dale Arnett 00:33, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * As a San Francisco 49ers fan - that's a really stupid name. Can't really argue with the page move, though. --Goobergunch 00:36, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * And the ornery votes of SF voted to keep it as Candlestick Park on Nov 2nd. Palnu 23:51, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

For a short time in 2003 I beleive, the stadium was named "49ers Stadium at Candlestick Point." Further research might uncover that. Doctorindy 22:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I think you're thinking of when it was "San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gateman1997 (talk • contribs).

What about "Commercialstick Park"? I know for a while, thats what SportsCenter was referring to is as. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.19.220.200 (talk • contribs).

The whole point of anything having a name is to identify it, so someone can refer to it and have the other person understand what they mean. That's only more important on Wikipedia, where you have a vast range of language and geographical orgins of folks trying to learn about something. Having names change is a pain in the ass. Even in the Bay Area, the one name you can use and have people understand what you're referring to is "Candlestick" (as in "Candlestick Park", to be specific). The article should be titled "Candlestick Park", and whenever this or that corporation pays for naming rights, a new synonym can be added to the article, and a new redirect page can be created. But the article name should remain consistent. Otherwise, we wind up needlessly hassling with updating nested redirects from "Candlestick" to "3Com" to "Monster" to "Candlestick" (again) to... who knows what.ENeville 18:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Candlestick Park forever ! !! No matter what name it gets, it will always be candlestick park. Unless you are driving by it all the time and read the signs you would never know it was "3Com" or "Monster".  I only knew it was "Monster" because it said here.  I was in SF when it changed to 3com and people still called it Candlestick there, I think I was the only one calling it 3Com mostly out of jest, and if someone said Monster Park to me now, I would look confused for a while until they said "What they are calling Candlestick these days."  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BillyNair (talk • contribs).
 * LOL, same. the only reason I ever knew it was "Monster" was from seeing the exit sign on 101 that said "Monster Park -->". Firejuggler86 (talk) 16:29, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

It is now officially "Candlestick Park" again. The title of the page should reflect this fact. Dfrishberg (talk) 06:49, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually the "fact" is that it is still "Monster Park". Candlestick Park does not return as the name until the contract with Monster Cable expires in June. Gateman1997 (talk) 17:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Bill Walsh Field
It was announced by Mayor Newsom that the field will be renamed for Bill Walsh. Updated article with reference to: --NCC-1701 (USS Enterprise) 21:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Candlestick Park is the most common name for the park. The article should be named that. I think Boston tried to do something like that - change the name of the Boston Garden when they built the new Fleet Center, but everyone still called it the Garden, so TD Bank relented and renamed it to the TD Banknorth Garden. Gonezales (talk) 06:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Mention parking lots much larger than stadium
In Image:Stadium.PNG we see the parking areas are much larger than the stadium itself. Do add a note about that. Jidanni 11:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move
Monster Park → Candlestick Park — Current name of this stadium after May 31 —Gateman1997 (talk) 19:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Pictures in the info bar
I changed the pictures in the info box, because I noticed the two pictures inside the article were good representations of how the stadium looked in both it's baseball and football versions, form the same section in the seats. --The gus14 (talk) 19:18, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Seating Capacity
The football seating capacity is obviously wrong, given that it looks to be 10, 150, and 1000 times the real values. I don't know what these values should be, otherwise I'd fix it. Braedley (talk) 23:19, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Football only?
After all of it's renovations, is candlestick stil capable of hosting baseball games? Is it classified as a "football only venue" because if it is California Memorial stadium would no longer be the largest "football only venue" as stated in the article on California Memorial Stadium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Memorial_Stadium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.245.60 (talk) 05:51, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Closed for football
No matter what happens, the 49ers will never play another game at Candlestick. Not sure why this is being reverted. This should be treated just like the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome article, which is listed in the past tense as the Vikings former home and TCF Bank Stadium is listed as the their current home.Richiekim (talk) 15:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Which revert do you not understand? What source did you give for your statements?  Was it a crystal-ball statement, or a sourced fact?  Details like that would let people react to the question.  Dicklyon (talk) 23:58, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * And how can you expect an edit like this to not be reverted?  It removes 1.6 KB with not so much as an edit summary to give a clue why.  Dicklyon (talk) 00:09, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I have added a source that Candlestick is officially closed. Richiekim (talk) 00:34, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You also reverted without comment my revert of your kilobytes of removal. And your source is some guy saying "official", yet the 49ers site still shows Candlestick as their stadium at .  Can you not find anything more official to base an edit on?  Dicklyon (talk) 00:41, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

"Enclosed" stadium?
I doubt if there's any canonical authority for terminology like this, but when I hear the term "enclosed," I think "covered."

Is there another acceptable way to describe the stadium as originally not having stands surrounding the entire perimeter, and then later having stands all the way around? Or am I the only one who thinks the term "enclosed" is unintentionally misleading?--NapoliRoma (talk) 05:04, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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My urban legend
What to name the stadium the Giants were to play in? Jack slew the GIANT and Jack jumped over the CANDLESTICK. Candlestick? THAT'S IT! We'll call the stadium Candlestick Park.