The 49ers will play December home games at the Cardinals’ stadium after Santa Clara County stopped all games.


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The San Francisco 49ers have completed their search for a new home location after the country of Santa Clara at Levi’s Stadium, releasing new COVID-19 rules that include a temporary ban on all high school, collegiate and professional sports. Team Announced on Monday The weekly games of the 13th and 14th against the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Football League will be played at the State Farm Stadium, the home stadium of the Cardinals in Arizona.

The move comes after California’s worst increase in its Covid-19. San Francisco and San Mateo counties repealed similar restrictions, such as Santa Clara, limiting nearby options for the 49ers as they searched for a new makeshift home. Under Santa Clara County’s new restrictions, a 14-day quarantine is required for anyone traveling more than 150 miles in and out of the country, with Buffalo and Washington definitely coming, meaning Ninars had to look elsewhere.

Earlier, 49-year-old coach Kyle Shanah expressed frustration with the county’s decision on Sunday and the lack of communication between the county and the team, noting the earlier cooperation between the parties.

“We are working with him as a partner, just trying to get him out,” Shanah said. “We had to get out of here yesterday and our relationship for that, all our players and coaches and each of those on the plane and our wives to find out when we were sitting in the plane, and no one had to tell us.” It was just too frustrating. “

The rest of the country is dealing with an increase in COVID-19, even the NFL could not hide from the epidemic. A number of teams, including the Steelers, Ravens and Colts, have recently battled with positive COVID-19 tests that come to their respective organization and, in the case of the Steelers-Ravens, their game needs to be rearranged twice. The league sent memos to all 32 clubs informing them to limit the number of positive tests that could come out of Thanksgiving and to stop all activities in person on Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1. Leave.