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Top Ten Sports Moments at Candlestick Park

January 11, 2014   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Candlestick Park—home of the San Francisco 49ers from 1971 through 2013 and home of the San Francisco Giants from 1960 through 1999.
For many, including this author, Candlestick is a love-hate relationship. 
I will not miss the freezing cold stadium while the rest of the Bay Area endured a late-summer heat wave. Nor will I miss the parking lot fiasco that followed nearly every game.
Those troughs in the men's restrooms? Goodbye and good riddance.
Candlestick Park may have earned its "dump" moniker, but as famed 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark recently noted via Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area, "It was our dump."
Nobody can take that away from San Francisco 49ers and Giants fans, nor can they take away the plethora of memories, both big and small, that encompass this historic stadium.
"Respect the Stick" is all that needs to be said.
After attending the final regular-season matchup between the 49ers and Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football...

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