The solution was already there. James "Jim" Fair built his South Pacific Coast Railroad through Alviso in 1877. Fair was a real "forty-niner" and he envisioned a football team would locate in San Francisco and call themselves the 49ers. He tried to buy the land in San Francisco for a stadium, but someone named Kezar got there first.

Fair then figured Candlestick Cove might be a place for a football stadium, but even he was smart enough to realize only idiots would build a stadium there. So, over 130 years later Fair's dream of having a stadium in Alviso for forty-niners would be realized. Unfortunately for Fair, in the 1870s no one ever heard of professional football as it wasn't around then. Fair's dream was to have a place for his forty-niners to gather, have horse and wagon tailgate parties, booze it up, and watch their fortunes come and go with team. Some things haven't changed.