Retour sur les incidents du match de samedi soir... Il y a eu atteintes par des coups de feu.
Jed York, the 49ers' co-owner and team president, called the violent episodes at Candlestick on Saturday night "one-off events." Greg Suhr, San Francisco's police chief and a longtime 49ers fan, called the level of criminal behavior at the exhibition against the Raiders an aberration.
"This game was like no other that I can remember," the chief said after citing the tally of arrests, ejections and medical calls from an evening that, at its worst, yielded two shootings and a restroom assault that hospitalized three men.
York and Suhr appeared at a news conference Monday at Candlestick, trying to spread some calm and sunshine after what they and Mayor Ed Lee portrayed as a perfect storm. No one in authority seemed ready to contemplate the possibility that San Francisco and the 49ers have undergone a climate change, which can't be resolved by telling the Raiders to stay on their side of the bay.
The authorities saw the local rivalry as Saturday's main storm cloud, compounded by the 5 p.m. start and the nature of exhibition tickets, which frequently end up in the hands of people who paid little or nothing for admission. Without much of an investment in the product, and minimal meaningful action on the field, these patrons tend to arrive with other forms of entertainment on their itinerary.
So York asked the NFL to suspend the annual preseason meeting with the Raiders and promised to monitor who gets tickets. He did not see a need to move this Saturday's exhibition against the Texans up from its scheduled 5 p.m. start. Chief Suhr said he thinks day games create a tamer atmosphere but didn't quibble with the plans for this weekend.
"I'll be at the game myself," he said, "and I'm very much looking forward to it.""
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/22/MN401KQGAN.DTL
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