San Francisco Was Ready For Riots, So Only 25 People Were Arrested After the 49ers Super Bowl Loss

All, Courts, Legal, Fans, Super Bowl Jason McIntyre February 4th. 2013, 12:00pm

When the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in October, 36 people were arrested, a bus was smashed, fires were lit, and vandals ran amok.

Police were ready this time – remember, the Mayor knew this was coming and tried to get bars to serve something besides alcohol – and after Michael Crabtree couldn’t haul in this 4th down pass in the final two minutes (in the Miami-Ohio State BCS title game, this was a hold), it was over.

Denizens of San Francisco handled the loss well:

As the game drew to an end, dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies fanned out on foot, motorcycles and patrol cars. A police helicopter hovered above, watching for signs of trouble.
Despite the large number of people on sidewalks, most appeared to be well-behaved in the Mission after the game. Police said 25 people were arrested for public intoxication, but that was only a preliminary count. A final count would not be available until Monday.

Nice showing, San Francisco. That’s a calmer night than when the 49ers hosted the Packers in the playoffs and everyone partied really, really hard.

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50 Responses to “San Francisco Was Ready For Riots, So Only 25 People Were Arrested After the 49ers Super Bowl Loss”

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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:05 PM
That’s b/c Ray Lewis was too far away and his limo couldn’t get him there fast enough.
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KC Resident Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:07 PM
When the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in October, 36 people were arrested, a bus was smashed, fires were lit, and vandals ran amok.
Do people riot when their team loses? (applies to US teams only.)
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Nada Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:09 PM
The AV Club review
of the Super Bowl broadcast has perhaps the best take on Simms I’ve ever read.
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JDiddy3000 Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Where’s the roundup? How will I get my fill of teachers boning students and Ohio/Florida shenanigans?
/Being Serious.
//Super Bowl Monday is dragging.
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Babar 2.0 Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:10 PM
I was in SF last night…it was a depressed scene. Nobody could even muster the anger.
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Nada Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Well, that was some epic formatting fail on my part.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Nobody could even muster the anger.
Don’t worry Jim Harbaugh whined like a little girl about the officiating enough to represent the entire gay population of SF.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:14 PM
NTTAWWT
/obligatory
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johndewar Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:16 PM
I was in SF last night…it was a depressed scene. Nobody could even muster the anger.
It’s kind of draining to watch your team come back like SF did last night only to fall short.
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Nada Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Only 25 People Were Arrested After the 49ers Super Bowl Loss
Chris Culliver blames this on the gayness.
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Watsonian Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Do people riot when their team loses? (applies to US teams only.)
1999 when MSU lost to Duke. Although, that had little to do with the game and more to do with the then President really trying to crack down on what students could and could not do.
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
I like Balt winning, but the only problem will be revisionist history. Five years from now, people will pretend Ray Lewis wasn’t strictly mediocre in the playoffs
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Ted Ginn catches that.
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José Pippen Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Do people riot when their team loses? (applies to US teams only.)
From personal experience MSU and WVU fans sure do
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Is there a single person, who isn’t a huge homer/contrarian, who didn’t think that was a penalty on fourth down?
/yes, anyone affiliated with the NFL falls under homer
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
people will pretend Ray Lewis wasn’t strictly mediocre in the playoffs
He was awful last night. SF was stupid for not trying to expose Ray Ray more.
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Do people riot when their team loses? (applies to US teams only.)
You specified US, but Vancouver is damn close
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Is there a single person, who isn’t a huge homer/contrarian, who didn’t think that was a penalty on fourth down?
Is there anyone that doesn’t think that late hit on Flacco was a penalty?
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Chris Culliver blames this on the gayness.
Only guy who had a worse day than Ray Ray
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Don’t worry Jim Harbaugh whined like a little girl about the officiating enough to represent the entire gay population of SF.
I havent seen much of him but he’s become Rex Ryan West.
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MP Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Is there a single person, who isn’t a huge homer/contrarian, who didn’t think that was a penalty on fourth down?
Probably but Navorro Bowman should have been flagged for raping Roddy White on 4th down in the NFCCG so I don’t feel too bad about it.
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:30 PM
He was awful last night. SF was stupid for not trying to expose Ray Ray more
Every play was directed at Ellerbe I think.
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Tim Ryan Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
That photo is in no way depressing.
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Probably but Navorro Bowman should have been flagged for raping Roddy White on 4th down in the NFCCG so I don’t feel too bad about it.
Ya, I don’t really care about SF getting screwed at all. Will be funny to watch the NFL claim it was the right call though
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Babar 2.0 Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Only guy who had a worse day than Ray Ray
Donte Whitner giving up three TDs should probably be atop this list.
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Is there a single person, who isn’t a huge homer/contrarian, who didn’t think that was a penalty on fourth down?
Impartial, I thought it was uncatchable. Also, those plays were all dogshit.
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Every play was directed at Ellerbe I think.
Davis was murdering Lewis in the first quarter
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:32 PM
You specified US, but Vancouver is damn close
That started in the first period of the game.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Also, those plays were all dogshit.
This. Once it was 1st a goal. I thought it was a forgone conclusion that Kaepernick would run over Ray Lewis for a TD.
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Watsonian Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Impartial, I thought it was uncatchable.
That only matters on pass interference, not on holding.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Impartial, I thought it was uncatchable.
Irrelevant on defensive holding.
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Watsonian Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:35 PM
This. Once it was 1st a goal. I thought it was a forgone conclusion that Kaepernick would run over Ray Lewis for a TD.
Yeah, the plays they ran were baffling.
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:36 PM
okay. I’ll avoid the next rules imbroglio until golf is the sport in question.
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Tim Ryan Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
This. Once it was 1st a goal. I thought it was a forgone conclusion that Kaepernick would run over Ray Lewis for a TD.
Yeah, the plays they ran were baffling.
Jimmy has to be sitting in a dark room and mumbling to himself for at least a month.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Is there a single person, who isn’t a huge homer/contrarian, who didn’t think that was a penalty on fourth down?
Based on no-calls earlier in the game (both teams), I didn’t think it was a penalty.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Granted the fact that it was uncatchable just further shows how fucking badly they handled those plays.
Honestly thought they would have been better off getting that delay of game. Gives you a wider area to work with and then you end up getting the ball with 50 seconds back instead.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Based on no-calls earlier in the game (both teams)
Ed Reed was offside on the two point conversion and they missed an awful blatant false start on Oher.
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sctrojans Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Moral of the story: commit a blatant penalty in a big spot and the refs will be afraid to call it. See: holding on Seymour before the helmet catch
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Moral of the story: commit a blatant penalty in a big spot and the refs will be afraid to call it. See: holding on Seymour before the helmet catch
If they called the penalties there would be just as many people complaining that the refs took the game into their own hands and should “let them play.” Moral of the story: NFL fans are morons.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Ed Reed was offside on the two point conversion and they missed an awful blatant false start on Oher.
First half, there were 2 blatant interference/holding no-calls on the 49er DBs and one that wasn’t blatant but could have been called. It was obvious at the outset, they were going to let them be physical and let them play.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:46 PM
They let Cary Williams shove a ref so, yeah – let em play.
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
If they called the penalties there would be just as many people complaining that the refs took the game into their own hands and should “let them play.” Moral of the story: NFL fans are morons.
Yeah, you have a huge melee early in the game and they do the off-setting penalties bit. As a result, you have some borderline/blatant cheapshotting and thuggery the rest of the game. Call some damning penalties early and either you get the players to get in line, or established consistency that allows you to make the proper call at the end of the game.
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Tim Ryan Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
First half, there were 2 blatant interference/holding no-calls on the 49er DBs
And there was a pretty bad no-call offensive PI on the Ravens where he rode the DB like a horse. Lots of no calls. Bottom line is the Niners “approach” on their four, yes FOUR, shots at the end zone from the 9-yard line was an abomination.
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scripty Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:48 PM
so, yeah – let em play.
it’s always best to run a finesse play/timing route in a game where they aren’t calling anything
-Greg Roman
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
it’s always best to run a finesse play/timing route in a game where they aren’t calling anything
-Greg Roma
Awesome.
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squawkbox Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:52 PM
And there was a pretty bad no-call offensive PI on the Ravens where he rode the DB like a horse.
On that same play, the db cracked the WR in the head at about 10 yds down the field. No way they were gonna call anything on either player.
I wondered why the Ravens coaches were also asking for a penalty on that play – CBS never showed a good replay so I backed it up to the live showing.
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bk Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 1:27 PM
I thought the defensive holding could have gone either way, but there were multiple holds on the punt just to waste time. That rule needs changed, if there is a hold in the end zone, safety and punt from the 10. There was no negatve action for the holds b/c the punter went out of bounds anyway.
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Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Crabtree initiated the contact. The refs did a good job in not making that call. They were letting things go for both sides the entire game. Bailing out the 49ers on a bad pattern would have been horrible.
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Shining Base Path Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 1:45 PM
Is there anyone that doesn’t think that late hit on Flacco was a penalty?
thank you vladdy
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Nada Says:
February 4th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
rules imbroglio
Natalie Imbruglia > rules imbroglio