If the 49ers win the NFC Championship Game and advance to the Super Bowl, the organization is going to have to do some serious thinking about a volatile issue.

Where to have the Super Bowl parade?

Down Market Street, like God intended?

Or down Tasman Drive, making a hard right on Great America Parkway?

Or split the difference in San Mateo?

Past 49ers’ championship parades have been down Market Street in the city of their birth. The most off-the-chain parade was January 1982 after their first Super Bowl victory, when city officials were overwhelmed by the numbers in attendance; fans climbed Muni buses and Market was so mobbed that police diverted the action to Howard Street.

The Giants also had three parades down Market Street. The Warriors’ three parades were through the streets of Oakland.

The 49ers have relocated 50 miles south to Santa Clara. The south bay is the team’s new home. So perhaps a parade through Great America? Or around the Google campus?

Here’s an idea from colleague Scott Ostler who has been watching network coverage of 49ers games and seen the camera shots used to illustrate the team’s location: Maybe they could start the parade on the Golden Gate Bridge and end it at Levi’s Stadium. It’s that close, right?

Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Email: akillion@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @annkillion