Are the 49ers leaving san francisco?

Are the 49ers leaving San Francisco? It would be a shame if they did.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The San Francisco 49ers professional football team announced on Thursday that they would move from their home at Candlestick Park in San Francisco to Santa Clara, California by 2012 but not change the team name.
"The Candlestick Point project will not accommodate the next generation NFL stadium," team owner John York told a news conference.
He called Candlestick Park "the oldest and worst stadium" in the National Football League and stressed the decision to build a new state-of-the-art stadium in Santa Clara would allow the 49ers to remain in the San Francisco region.
"The 49ers will not leave the San Francisco Bay area," he said.
Across the San Francisco Bay, the owners of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics are considering moving the team 20 miles south to Fremont, California, where they could build a new ballpark.
An announcement on the move is widely expected to be made next week. The move would allow the A's to have a baseball-only venue as they now share Oakland's McAfee Coliseum with the NFL's Oakland Raiders.
They would also be closer to San Jose, California, which is the San Francisco Bay area's most populous city. Its only professional sports team is the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks and many officials there have long advocated a professional baseball franchise.
Santa Clara is near San Jose so the 49ers would be well situated to take advantage of local pent-up demand for additional professional sports.