“That’s going to be a special moment for sure,” linebacker Fred Warner said, via Kirk Larrabee of 49ersWebZone.com. “It couldn’t have worked out better. The fact that it’s going to be a prime time game (against the Green Bay Packers), it’s at night, our first home game of the season, just having fans back is going to be so special. I know personally, I thrive off the fans’ energy.”
The 49ers probably had the most curveballs thrown their way of any team in the league when it came to staging their home games last year. Wildfires in California led to dangerous air quality levels ahead of the team’s first game of the season in September. Then the team had to move to Arizona due to restrictions on allowable gathering sizes in the Bay Area being ramped up to combat virus spread. Ultimately, the 49ers played just five games in Santa Clara last year and none with real fans in the stands.
