It’s 2024 and the 49ers are back in the Super Bowl. If the team walks off the field with a win on Sunday night, the city could burst into its biggest impromptu street party in years, comparable to the dancing crowds that filled the streets in 2020 when Joe Biden was elected president. (The San Francisco Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
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But a 49er Super Bowl celebration could also involve bashed-in car hoods and streets full of broken glass. Just ask anyone who was on the city’s streets after the 49ers won their first championship in 1982.