Special Treat For Those Coming to the SF Game

[Chef Jim]

You'll be here for Fleet Week. Blue Angles will be flying all over the city on Thursday and Friday practicing and they will have shows on Saturday and Sunday. Get your butts into the city on Saturday to check it out. It is so cool to see and hear them flying through the city. Also there will be several Navy and Coast Guard ships docked throughout the city with a parade of ships on Saturday.

 

http://www.fleetweek.us/index.html

[PromoTheRobot]

I thought you were going to say you are catering the tailgate.

 

PTR

[yungmack]

You'll be here for Fleet Week. Blue Angles will be flying all over the city on Thursday and Friday practicing and they will have shows on Saturday and Sunday. Get your butts into the city on Saturday to check it out. It is so cool to see and hear them flying through the city. Also there will be several Navy and Coast Guard ships docked throughout the city with a parade of ships on Saturday.

 

http://www.fleetweek.us/index.html

 

Sounds fun. Just one question though: are the Blue Angles as good as the Blue Angels?

[San Jose Bills Fan]

You'll be here for Fleet Week. Blue Angles will be flying all over the city on Thursday and Friday practicing and they will have shows on Saturday and Sunday. Get your butts into the city on Saturday to check it out. It is so cool to see and hear them flying through the city. Also there will be several Navy and Coast Guard ships docked throughout the city with a parade of ships on Saturday.

 

http://www.fleetweek.us/index.html

 

Also, one of the premier music festivals in the United States will be taking place in Golden Gate Park that weekend.

 

The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/

 

It's free and really captures the post-sixties vibe of the city. There'll be incredible music played at beautiful stages throughout the park, excellent concessions, and the warm, liberal, open, accepting spirit, which still defines San Francisco today.

 

I strongly suggest a trip to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass on the Friday or Saturday before the game.

[Charles Romes]

Rice-a-Roni?

[San Jose Bills Fan]

Sounds fun. Just one question though: are the Blue Angles as good as the Blue Angels?

 

I'm told the geometry of their flight patterns is more precise.

[Chef Jim]

Sounds fun. Just one question though: are the Blue Angles as good as the Blue Angels?

 

Better!

 

 

Also, one of the premier music festivals in the United States will be taking place in Golden Gate Park that weekend.

 

The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: http://www.hardlystr...ybluegrass.com/

 

It's free and really captures the post-sixties vibe of the city. There'll be incredible music played at beautiful stages throughout the park, excellent concessions, and the warm, liberal, open, accepting spirit, which still defines San Francisco today.

 

I strongly suggest a trip to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass on the Friday or Saturday before the game.

 

Hardly Strictly is the same weekend as Fleet Week? WTF were they thinking? Glad I don't live in the city anymore.

[San Jose Bills Fan]

Better!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOREzxyWJY

 

 

 

Hardly Strictly is the same weekend as Fleet Week? WTF were they thinking? Glad I don't live in the city anymore.

 

I thought you lived near Candlestick now. Are you going to the game?

[Chef Jim]

I thought you lived near Candlestick now. Are you going to the game?

 

I was actually near AT&T but I'm over in the Oakland Hills now. Not planning on going to the game. I'm a Raider fan now.

Edited September 29, 2012 by Chef Jim

[Chef Jim]

Rice-a-Roni?

 

Your age is showing. The younguns here won't get that.

[Offside Number 76]

Is this similar to the Navy Week we just had here?

[Chef Jim]

Is this similar to the Navy Week we just had here?

 

I have no clue seeing I don't live there wherever here is. I assume Buffalo?

[San Jose Bills Fan]

Anyways, you have hawks and doves on the same weekend (or as Hardly Strictly headliner Emmylou Harris would say, "Blackhawk and the White-winged Dove.")

 

Kind of a strange mix… the post hippies and the military and military-philes.

 

It's gonna be a great weekend regardless.

[Chef Jim]

Anyways, you have hawks and doves on the same weekend (or as Hardly Strictly headliner Emmylou Harris would say, "Blackhawk and the White-winged Dove.")

 

Kind of a strange mix… the post hippies and the military and military-philes.

 

It's gonna be a great weekend regardless.

 

People B word all the time in SF about the gratuitous flaunting of military might. Watched the show last year from the observation tower in the Transamerica Pyramid. It was fun but you really need to be outdoors. The sound is the best part.

[1B4IDie]

 

 

Better!

 

 

 

 

Hardly Strictly is the same weekend as Fleet Week? WTF were they thinking? Glad I don't live in the city anymore.

 

There is an America's cup boat race that weekend too.

 

They're supposed to have some spectacularly close viewing areas.

 

They're have already been articles in the SF paper saying don't think about driving car that weekend, plan your public transport because its going to be crazy.

[MattM]

My dad and I will be flying in for the game. Couple of quick questions--

 

1. Do I need to rent a car? I was thinking not, as I recall SF having pretty good public transit/cabs and bad parking situation. My estimate is I'd need to spend $500 for a car ($300 for rental plus $50 a night parking plus gas, tolls, parking);

 

2. Linked to number 1. Are:

 

A. Am thinking of catching the Stanford or Cal game on Saturday. Looks like Caltran runs to Palo Alto and we're about a mile from the Caltran station in SF. BART goes to Berkely I believe (or it did when I lived there 20 years ago.) Is that easy to do? Are there problems getting tickets to those games?; and

 

B. In terms of the Bills game, same question--can one get to the stadium via public transit?

 

Muchas gracias for the info--looking forward to the trip (and hopefully a W to go with the one tomorrow!)

[LewPort71]

Your age is showing. The younguns here won't get that.

 

For us olduns, that was funny as heck.

[NickelCity]

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/transportation/2012/09/1m-visitors-expected-crash-san-francisco-playoffs-parties-music-galore

[Fan in San Diego]

I live just west of Miramar and see them fly over my house every Oct 14, 15 and 16. It's amazing I can see the pilots faces when they loop over my house. back in the day windows got busted from the power wash of the jet engines. The noise is so loud, my dogs completely freak out and don't know what to do.

[sfbillsfan]

My dad and I will be flying in for the game. Couple of quick questions--

 

1. Do I need to rent a car? I was thinking not, as I recall SF having pretty good public transit/cabs and bad parking situation. My estimate is I'd need to spend $500 for a car ($300 for rental plus $50 a night parking plus gas, tolls, parking);

 

2. Linked to number 1. Are:

 

A. Am thinking of catching the Stanford or Cal game on Saturday. Looks like Caltran runs to Palo Alto and we're about a mile from the Caltran station in SF. BART goes to Berkely I believe (or it did when I lived there 20 years ago.) Is that easy to do? Are there problems getting tickets to those games?; and

 

B. In terms of the Bills game, same question--can one get to the stadium via public transit?

 

Muchas gracias for the info--looking forward to the trip (and hopefully a W to go with the one tomorrow!)

 

The whole weekend is going to be a cluster f^&K. Blue angels, Bluegrass festival in GG Park, America's Cup sailing event. Where are you staying? It's possible to get to Candlestick via muni, our bus system. As for college games, stanford is the better option w/ Caltrain stoppingsomewhat near the stadium. Cal is much tougher, and forget driving there.