For those who follow Olympic history, John York has become San Francisco’s answer to New York State assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, the man who killed New York’s 2012 Summer Olympics dream. York, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers, could not reach an agreement with the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, to build a football facility that would have doubled as the main stadium in San Francisco’s scheme to bring the 2016 summer games to the city by the bay. The stalemate effectively ended San Francisco’s hopes of landing that Olympiad.