49ers to Play Next Two Home Games in Arizona

Maybe we should call them the Arizona 49ers for the next weeks.

Grant Cohn | Nov 30, 2020

Maybe we should call them the Arizona 49ers for the next weeks.

The 49ers will play their upcoming home games against the Buffalo Bills and Washington Football Team in Arizona at the Cardinals' stadium in Glendale. The 49ers announced this on Monday. They're moving to Arizona temporarily because Santa Clara County won't allow the 49ers to play or practice at Levi's Stadium for the next three weeks.

Here's a statement from the 49ers:

“The San Francisco 49ers have come to an agreement with the National Football League and Arizona Cardinals which allows the 49ers to host their Weeks 13 and 14 home games against the Buffalo Bills and Washington Football Team at State Farm Stadium in Arizona.

“The Cardinals organization, State Farm Stadium and League officials have been supportive and accommodating as we work through the many logistical issues involved in relocating NFL games.

“Information regarding the 49ers future practice arrangements will be shared at the appropriate time.”

Head coach Kyle Shanahan will have a press conference Tuesday to explain how and where the 49ers will practice. We'll have more details then.

So now, the 49ers are homeless -- never ideal for a football team. As if the Niners needed more bad luck during a season in which they've had the worst luck of any team.

But the 49ers have rolled with the punches all season long, and they could continue to do so in Arizona. Because, for what it's worth, the 49ers record at Levi's Stadium this season is just 1-4, and they're 4-2 on the road.

Maybe an Arizona excursion is exactly what the 49ers need.

Published Nov 30, 2020

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.