49ers Fans Crowdfund Billboard to Troll Seattle Rivals

Trolling rival sports fans on Twitter? That's so passé. A group of San Francisco 49ers supporters is upping the ante by crowdfunding money to buy billboard space in Seattle to troll Seahawks fans in their own hometown

The drive's initial funding goal was $7,000. But as of 5:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday, it had already raised more than $9,800.

However, 49ers fans aren't being that original. The billboard-in-Seattle move is in retaliation to a similarly creative bit of trolling by Seahawks fans. Seattle supporters — who earlier this season set a Guinness World Record for loudest sports crowd in history — paid to have a plane fly over Candlestick Park in San Francisco while pulling a pro-Seahawks banner during the teams' Dec. 8 matchup. (The 49ers won that game by a score of 19-17.) Read more...