Im only 22. Ive been to Legion Field maybe twice. I love the stories that everyone tells about that place and I wonder what it would take to get that facility back up and running. I know theres plenty of money floating around and I realize thats not the problem. My point is not just to have the Iron Bowl back in Birmingham but to have the sec championship. It would be great for the city of Birmingham and also nice to have it in the center of the south.:BigA:
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Not going to happen... especially with these factors:
-Alabama and Auburn both have stadiums on campus that are LIGHT YEARS ahead of Legion Field.
-The SEC is not going to have a repeat instance of the first SEC Championship where it was brutally cold.
-The City of Birmingham couldn't put something like that together if their lives depended on it.
Let UAB have the fraction of Legion Field that they fill. We have a perfectly good stadium right here at home.
-Alabama and Auburn both have stadiums on campus that are LIGHT YEARS ahead of Legion Field.
-The SEC is not going to have a repeat instance of the first SEC Championship where it was brutally cold.
-The City of Birmingham couldn't put something like that together if their lives depended on it.
Let UAB have the fraction of Legion Field that they fill. We have a perfectly good stadium right here at home.
It'd be great, but I'm a realist... it's not going to happen. Atlanta, for the most part, is a central location with a big enough indoor stadium. The only other option would be New Orleans or Nashville as a distant third.
Man that sucks, though. If someone(or a group of people)would invest and throw some money in alot of people would gain from it. Not mentioning the state of Alabama.
No I havent. But that wasnt my point. I would like to enrich not only the City of Birmingham but The State of Alabama. Alot of revenue goes through Atlanta.You obviously haven't been following the domed stadium debate in Birmingham.
It's gonna take a lot more than a domed stadium. They had a chance to lure the Delta hub that Atlanta got years ago, and they passed. Now, they are B'ham and Atlanta is Atlanta.
another reason both schools wont go for it is because they make way more money during the Iron Bowl with the way they have it now, nothing having to split the tickets. They would if we went back to the half and half system
You could not pay me to attend a game in Legion Field.
The upper deck has been condemned, and
I would not expose my family to that dangerous neighborhood.
The upper deck has been condemned, and
I would not expose my family to that dangerous neighborhood.
Maybe they could have it, oh, say an hour west of Birmingham. There's a huge stadium there that holds ~ 92,138 plus standing room.
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The stadium and its location are awful.
Lets start a new tradition by playing in the finest stadium on the prettiest campus in the country (every other year ).
Lets start a new tradition by playing in the finest stadium on the prettiest campus in the country (every other year
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... which is exactly how a lot of people in B'ham want to keep it.
BamaBobo, if you've only been to Legion Field twice (I'm assuming you mean 2 Bama games), then you probably don't have a full understanding of how poor of a facility this has become. I'm only in my early 30's, but I've had years of bad experiences, gradually getting worse.
It would take "Warren Buffett money" to fix up LF and it's surroundings to make it an appealing venue.
The traffic situation is pathetic. For a stadium that is not limited by the surroundings of a campus, the ingress/egress points are despicable. Not to mention the pain of being a student and having to drive over and back from Tuscaloosa for a game.
For years, LF was the only place we could fit respectable capacity crowds, so yes, I have a lot of fond memories of big games there. My first memories of Bama football PERIOD are from LF. However, I am ready to let them be just that: memories.
The low-point of Legion Field came for me during the ATL Olympics (1996?) I attended an Olympic soccer match, and you could literally smell the sewage outside the stadium. Water from the toilets was running down the access ramps, and I thought to myself, "World, welcome to Alabama." That was a criminal misrepresentation of our state.
Diamond is absolutely correct about the Delta Hub, but even prior to that we had the OPPORTUNITY to have the REGIONAL airport in Birmingham long before Atlanta built Hartsfield. Birmingham was initially chosen (in the late 40's) as the optimal site for a regional airport because it is MUCH more centrally located than Atlanta. The fact is that the powers in Birmingham have always fumbled the ball when they've had the chance to do something special with it. I appreciate Bamabobo's idealistic outlook on things but frankly I've lived here too long and have seen opportunity after opportunity come and go and to think that we can "enrich" Birmingham once again. This is yet another pipe dream by people who are either to naive or to young to have seen what I've seen!
Birmingham HAD the SEC Championship and had a chance to have it rotate between Atlanta and here and actually Memphis at one time but that too was lost because Birmingham wouldn't STEP UP to the plate. This Dome Stadium debate is yet one more item that WON'T happen because the city leaders are too stupid to realize that every city has taken a chance on building something with only a hope of what can come of it and they've won big! As a perfect example look no further than Jacksonville, Florida!
Birmingham won't take chances because Birmingham has city leaders who never FREAKIN' leave office! The same is true of the Jefferson County Commission! We've got morons like Carole Smitherman, Bettey Fine Collins and Larry Lankford and mayors without a clue who have control whether they are in or out of office. These are the same people who thought Visionland was a good idea! No offense to the Cities of Bessemer and Hueytown, but who really believed that either of those two areas were ever going to be a Mecca for Visitors to the City? Places like theme parks need to be in nice areas of town where outside visitors want to come and spend money because there aren't enough people locally to sustain parks like that. Shoot, even the outlet mall is dying a slow death with retailers leaving almost on a daily basis.
Birmingham is a doomed city and it's sad, but frankly it is an opportunity that is being taken by other cities, namely Hoover. Hoover understands what it takes to compete in a global economy and is doing what it can to takes its place among some top cities in America. As a resident, I'm not sure that I like all of the building that's going on currently or is planned, but at least our leaders are visionaries who understand the economic impact that sporting events and entertainment can have on a city. Hoover is even looking at building a hospital to increase tax revenue from other industries so it doesn't have to always look to it's citizens for money. All of those people who have built lofts on the North side of downtown Birmingham are going to lose their shirts. The entire City Federal Building is now lofts, the old Blach's building is now lofts and many other places are following suit. It shocks me that people think young urban highly educated and yet funky kids will want to live on the north side of downtown Birmingham. I do realize a few do, but there aren't nearly enough to fill the available spaces.
Anyway, Birmingham has unfortunately had its opportunities and I just don't see them coming along again. We've got a reputation as a city that doesn't follow through. Too bad considering we could have had an NFL team here!
Birmingham HAD the SEC Championship and had a chance to have it rotate between Atlanta and here and actually Memphis at one time but that too was lost because Birmingham wouldn't STEP UP to the plate. This Dome Stadium debate is yet one more item that WON'T happen because the city leaders are too stupid to realize that every city has taken a chance on building something with only a hope of what can come of it and they've won big! As a perfect example look no further than Jacksonville, Florida!
Birmingham won't take chances because Birmingham has city leaders who never FREAKIN' leave office! The same is true of the Jefferson County Commission! We've got morons like Carole Smitherman, Bettey Fine Collins and Larry Lankford and mayors without a clue who have control whether they are in or out of office. These are the same people who thought Visionland was a good idea! No offense to the Cities of Bessemer and Hueytown, but who really believed that either of those two areas were ever going to be a Mecca for Visitors to the City? Places like theme parks need to be in nice areas of town where outside visitors want to come and spend money because there aren't enough people locally to sustain parks like that. Shoot, even the outlet mall is dying a slow death with retailers leaving almost on a daily basis.
Birmingham is a doomed city and it's sad, but frankly it is an opportunity that is being taken by other cities, namely Hoover. Hoover understands what it takes to compete in a global economy and is doing what it can to takes its place among some top cities in America. As a resident, I'm not sure that I like all of the building that's going on currently or is planned, but at least our leaders are visionaries who understand the economic impact that sporting events and entertainment can have on a city. Hoover is even looking at building a hospital to increase tax revenue from other industries so it doesn't have to always look to it's citizens for money. All of those people who have built lofts on the North side of downtown Birmingham are going to lose their shirts. The entire City Federal Building is now lofts, the old Blach's building is now lofts and many other places are following suit. It shocks me that people think young urban highly educated and yet funky kids will want to live on the north side of downtown Birmingham. I do realize a few do, but there aren't nearly enough to fill the available spaces.
Anyway, Birmingham has unfortunately had its opportunities and I just don't see them coming along again. We've got a reputation as a city that doesn't follow through. Too bad considering we could have had an NFL team here!
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I did have some great memories at Legion Field. The last time I was there was the 96 Iron Bowl. Glad the games are now all at BDS
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