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The San Francisco 49ers  schedule for the 2010 NFL season has some pretty big games at Candlestick Park this year with the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints coming to town for the second home game and the San Diego Chargers opening up the season at Candlestick Park on September 2nd. But the biggest game of the year is between the 49ers and the Oakland Raiders on October 17th.

Tickets for the 49ers vs Raiders game are currently sold out through Ticketmaster but you can still find seats for the big game from sports ticket brokers with the prices running over $100 per ticket at this time. Never mind that the Raiders haven’t played well in years, the rivalry goes back far enough to keep the interest high when they play each other in the regular season.

In comparison to other San Francisco 49er football games, the 49ers vs Chargers game on September 2nd has really cheap 49er tickets available. This is the cheapest 49er game of the year with tickets running only $15 each to get in the door.  The best seats for the 49ers will run you under face value with 40-50 yard line seats running just over $100 each.

These ticket prices for the 49ers are pretty amazing considering the San Diego Chargers had a great year last season and this is the home opener. But the economy is taking it’s toll. It’s hard to imagine how the 49ers will convince 49er fans to cough up the money for PSL’s for a new stadium in Santa Clara when they have this kind of trouble selling a premium game on the secondary market.

San Francisco 49er tickets are on sale now for all their 2010 NFL regular season games without any hidden fees or service charges.

You can still find plenty of cheap 49er tickets for this Sunday night’s game at Candlestick Park against Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings. Favre practiced with the team for the first time this year on Wednesday, and up until now, football fans weren’t sure if he was coming back this year.

If Brett Favre had made the decision earlier, this game would probably be close to a sellout. But with the last minute announcement ticket sellers hope this helps spur sales for a very slow selling game. The cheapest football tickets for the game on Sunday are currently running about $20 each.  And even the best seats for the 49ers vs. Vikings game are only running about face value or less.

The San Francisco 49ers are cleaning house for the move to Santa Clara. But it’s the long time season ticket holders, many back to the Kezar Stadium days who are being kicked to the side. 49er season ticket holders were recently sent renewal forms with the dramatic price increases for the new Platinum, Gold and the leather backed seats in the new “Club” section.

It was just a few years ago when all the tickets at Candlestick Park had the same price, $60 each. But now the 49ers want to “modernize its season-ticket structure to get it more with the rest of the NFL”. That’s the new corporate name given to the dramatic raising of prices, “modernize”.

To the fans, they’ve been jacked up.

Last years $99 seats are now $149 each, a 50% increase. But when the season ticket holders dump their seats as the 49ers are hoping, then the general public gets a shot at that seat, for $179 each, and that’s before Ticketmaster’s service charges.  The 49er season ticket prices were jacked up, not modernized!

And those may be some of the lucky ones.

For a few lucky 49er season ticket holders in the box seats, their season ticket invoice went from $5475 to $19,000! Because the 49ers are converting them to “Club Seats”,  leather backed seats with food, drink and a pregame field pass. And the fans are pissed off according to the MercuryNews.com and many will give up their 49er season ticket this year.

Why are they doing this the fans are asking, especially in this economy and when the 49ers haven’t had a winning season since 2002? Well they’re cleaning house. First they need to clear out some premium seats to the developers, banks, politicians, etc that they owe for helping put up a stadium in Santa Clara and currently all of the best seats are taken. By jacking up the fans now, they will have seats for the high rollers, and much more revenue from the new fans.  Not only that but this willl better prepare the 49er season ticket holders that remain for the dreaded PSL’s.

And that’s when the fans will really feel jacked up.

So if you’re looking for San Francisco 49er tickets this year, check with a 49er ticket broker, because the resell market for those 49er tickets may be much less than the face value, unless they can pull out a miracle winning season. This may be the last season for many of the 49er faithful, who never would have dreamed it would turn out this way back in the Kezar days.