One Man’s Opinions Are Another Man’s Force That Is Awakening (Insert Cinematic Music And Merchandise Sales Here) …

Here’s my advice to 49ers fans thinking of paying for another airplane-towed banner that calls for a “mutual parting” with owner Jed York: Stop wasting your money, unless you’re doing it strictly for laughs.

My rationale for that statement? I checked the official NFL statistics for a list of owners who decided to sell their team after seeing airplane banners that asked them to sell their team. The number is zero.

I’m not sure why fans never get this: Owners do not fire themselves. The 49ers have been in the York/DeBartolo family for three generations. The family enjoys owning the 49ers. The family makes money owning the 49ers. The family is not going to sell the 49ers. Also, you can be sure that Jed York realizes (A) he and his team are having a very bad year on multiple levels and (B) many people blame him for all of it. He doesn’t need airplane banners to remind him.

What can fans do to send a real message to ownership? Keep in mind the NFL is a business. So think along those lines. Stop spending money on tickets and parking and concessions. Stop watching games on television to keep ratings down. Check out who the corporate sponsors are at the stadium or in the game programs. Then protest to those sponsors or stop buying their products or organize a boycott against them. Remember, Roger Goodell didn’t get off the dime with a strong anti-domestic violence policy in 2014 until Budweiser (joining other big sponsors) said it “was not yet satisfied” with Goodell’s handling of the issue.

Meanwhile, happier news! The NFL has demoted the officials who made such a hash of Sunday’s 49ers-Cardinals game. Referee Pete Morelli’s crew was pulled off the Colts-Steelers prime time Sunday night game and reassigned to a less-prominent contest. My prediction: Morelli and his striped peeps will show up at an NBA game instead and promptly whistle a point guard for an “infield fly rule” violation.

The NFL’s officiating troubles this week allow me to make a pitch — again — for the league to hire full-time people for those jobs. It’s not because of the extra hours officials could study the rule book between games. It’s because hiring full-time people would expand the talent pool.

Guess I should explain: Right now, the part-timers who work in the NFL must all have flexible enough “real” jobs to take off numerous days of work to travel and officiate Sunday or Monday or Thursday games. But theoretically, the best ref in America today might be a young cop or paramedic who works local high school games but can’t even apply for an NFL job because he can’t get out of Sunday or Monday work shifts. So he is eliminated from job consideration by the country’s richest and biggest sports league. How stupid is that?

This just in, for those of you keeping score at home: After the Ravens-Browns finish on Monday night, the Harbaugh family is back to .500 botched-kick-touchdown-return karma for the 2015 football season.

Oakland Raider fans, take note: The NFL owners are meeting outside Dallas on Wednesday to potentially schedule a vote on the Los Angeles franchise relocation situation. After hearing from the relocation committee and discussing the issues involving the Raiders, Chargers and Rams, the owners will then decide whether they want to vote on an L.A. resolution as early as January, delay it until March or maybe even put it off for another entire year. I’m betting on the last option. There are still too many balls in the air, and the NFL wants to get this right.

I’m not sure which is more silly: The Warriors getting into a “Twitter War” with a blogger who obviously wanted to start something and increase his small following, or those of us in the mainstream media (which I proudly am) who report on the “Twitter War” and give it credibility. Mainly, I am amused that athletes who sometimes complain about reporters blowing quotes out of proportion are now so eager to do the out-of-proportion-blowing themselves.

Who uttered the following quote this week? “For my 20 years out here, I think I’ve achieved a lot, and if that’s all it entails, then I’ve had a pretty good run.” No, it wasn’t Kobe Bryant. It was Tiger Woods, who after his third back surgery sounds sadly close to throwing in the golf towel.

Dear Red Sox: David Price is not worth $31 million per year. You’ll see.

Cal football coach Sonny Dykes, who makes $29 million less per year than David Price, is interviewing for the vacancy at Missouri. Does he think it will be easier to win in the SEC than in the Pac-12?

There’s a part of me that wonders if Steve Kerr has not returned to the Warriors’ bench because he doesn’t want to jinx the streak. But I don’t want to demean his medical issues. Mainly, it’s just too bad he’s not out there to soak up the vibes and participate in the wonder he has helped to create.

It was great to hear LeBron James cite a 2008 Olympic gold medal game performance as a top Kobe Bryant memory. Too often, American hoop fans slough off the Olympics as no big deal. Talk to the players. They can set you straight.