Q&A: Ex-49ers exec Carmen Policy talks Levi's Stadium, Chip Kelly, more

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — Super Bowl 50 and its week-long fanfare feels like the quintessential San Francisco moment, a celebration of the entire Bay Area and its rich NFL history. And who better to give voice to San Francisco’s turn on the big stage than Carmen Policy, the former 49ers club president who had an integral role and superb vantage point from which to view the making of perhaps the league’s preeminent dynasty, the 49ers of the 1980s and first half of the ‘90s?

Policy, who also served as the CEO and club president of the expansion Cleveland Browns from 1999–2004, wakes up every day living the dream at the picturesque 14.5-acre Casa Piena vineyard he and his wife, Gale, own and…