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received an e-mail from the ticket office today in regards to my football season tix. I received the option of section 9 or 12, at any level. I've always liked rows 20-30 in LF. Is there a predominant Blazertalk section between the two?

what say you Blazertalkers?

There are a bunch of Blazertalkers who sit in nine. Home of our four seats, halfway up with our backs to the wall in front of the aisle.

Lots of great folks sit around my family in section 9 rows 25-30. We have had our seats for several years now.

UAB Band Dad Wrote:There are a bunch of Blazertalkers who sit in nine. Home of our four seats, halfway up with our backs to the wall in front of the aisle.

The wife, the little Blazer and I sit about 10 rows up from you guys, on the edge of 9. Same seats for 6 years.

The gap between 9 & 12 is the midfield seats covered by those Stadium Certificates I've mentioned before. Those 2,000 seats on both sides (sections 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding midfield two sections in the east stands) are held by the Park Board for ALL FB games until the week of each game for those who hold those "SCs". Anyone can then buy them if unclaimed by the prior Monday for each Saturday game. The "Gold Seats" are also covered in a similar way.

BlazerCPA1 Wrote:

UAB Band Dad Wrote:There are a bunch of Blazertalkers who sit in nine. Home of our four seats, halfway up with our backs to the wall in front of the aisle.

The wife, the little Blazer and I sit about 10 rows up from you guys, on the edge of 9. Same seats for 6 years.

Yeah, we've been there forever. The seats on row 31 with the wall behind them forming a seat back are high demand items and don't come open often. Any time we stay long at the tailgate and get to the pregame a little late we have to throw squatters out of them. As a bonus we sit with Tom Stallings. Please believe me when I tell you that its never boring when you sit with Tom.

UAB Band Dad Wrote:

BlazerCPA1 Wrote:

UAB Band Dad Wrote:There are a bunch of Blazertalkers who sit in nine. Home of our four seats, halfway up with our backs to the wall in front of the aisle.

The wife, the little Blazer and I sit about 10 rows up from you guys, on the edge of 9. Same seats for 6 years.

Yeah, we've been there forever. The seats on row 31 with the wall behind them forming a seat back are high demand items and don't come open often. Any time we stay long at the tailgate and get to the pregame a little late we have to throw squatters out of them. As a bonus we sit with Tom Stallings. Please believe me when I tell you that its never boring when you sit with Tom.

I've seen you throwing out the squatters and the wife and I get a big kick out of Tom. We love the flag waving and the cheering. One of my favorite UAB sports memories is Tom standing on the concrete wall at UGA when we were up in the 3rd qtr in 2003, leading us UAB fans in the U-A-B chant. The 200 or so UAB fans were louder than the 92,000 UGA fans and Tom was doing a much better job than our cheerleaders!

BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:The gap between 9 & 12 is the midfield seats covered by those Stadium Certificates I've mentioned before. Those 2,000 seats on both sides (sections 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding midfield two sections in the east stands) are held by the Park Board for ALL FB games until the week of each game for those who hold those "SCs". Anyone can then buy them if unclaimed by the prior Monday for each Saturday game. The "Gold Seats" are also covered in a similar way.

I've always wondered if they were still doing those. I used to know someone who's father had 2 of those & all he had to do was renew them each yr for about $25 but it was back when UAT & the Iron Bowl were played here. My tickets are just above the gold box seats in sec 10 row 50. I used to have mine on the east side until I got tired of the drunk obnoxious Mem fans (not all of them are that way thankfully) & found friendlier grounds.

Section 9!

Section 12 is a bit more, shall we say, genteel.
Section 9 is where the cheer "Fire Wayne Bolt" was started. Need I say more?

I'm a couple of rows in front of Band Dad and I can testify to the entertainment factor of Tam Stallings. Of course, one should not get me fired up either.

BlazerRob Wrote:Section 9!

Section 12 is a bit more, shall we say, genteel.
Section 9 is where the cheer "Fire Wayne Bolt" was started. Need I say more?

Yeah, I know. We started it.

Never admitted that before... Tom was doing it by mid fourth quarter and I kept shushing him, and then the bottom fell out at the end of the game and it broke out in earnest.

I can't say I'm real proud about it, but I guess now it can be told.

blazerwkr Wrote:

BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:The gap between 9 & 12 is the midfield seats covered by those Stadium Certificates I've mentioned before. Those 2,000 seats on both sides (sections 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding midfield two sections in the east stands) are held by the Park Board for ALL FB games until the week of each game for those who hold those "SCs". Anyone can then buy them if unclaimed by the prior Monday for each Saturday game. The "Gold Seats" are also covered in a similar way.

I've always wondered if they were still doing those. I used to know someone who's father had 2 of those & all he had to do was renew them each yr for about $25 but it was back when UAT & the Iron Bowl were played here. My tickets are just above the gold box seats in sec 10 row 50. I used to have mine on the east side until I got tired of the drunk obnoxious Mem fans (not all of them are that way thankfully) & found friendlier grounds.

According to the Park Board source who answered my inquiry, the "SCs" are perpetual as there is no time limit or repurchase provisions. They are good FOREVER as long as a football game of ANY kind is played by anyone at Legion Field. I have always credited the "SCs" for keeping the NFL away from B'ham (no owner is going to forego over 5,000 of the best seats for season tickets) and assuring that when Steve Sloan set up the "Tide Pride" program, Bama's time for playing home games at Legion field was almost over. Multiply a premium of- -say $2,000 per seat-- times just over 5,000 seats and you can see why they no longer play here. The "scary neighborhood" and recruiting problems were just good covers for making an easy economic decision. No AD is his "right mind" is going to forfeit over $1 million per game every year to make the SC holders happy.

UAB Band Dad Wrote:

BlazerRob Wrote:Section 9!

Section 12 is a bit more, shall we say, genteel.
Section 9 is where the cheer "Fire Wayne Bolt" was started. Need I say more?

Yeah, I know. We started it.

Never admitted that before... Tom was doing it by mid fourth quarter and I kept shushing him, and then the bottom fell out at the end of the game and it broke out in earnest.

I can't say I'm real proud about it, but I guess now it can be told.

I'm not sure that getting rid of Bolt helped the Defense that much either but calling for his removal did help the morale of some of our demoralized fans.

Bolt was bad and seemingly unmotivated. That said, I'm not sure how much of the problem was Bolt and how much was Zero. Either way, most college coaches are well paid professionals, and should be able to take some criticism (at least it should motivate them). The debacle at Tulane was a simple lack of preparation and an uncooperative HC/OC. Both should have been booed.

What I consider off-limits is booing the college players.

Section 9 , Row 42 as I recall,, got 4 on the aisle. great vistas from up there. Blazer Jay sits in front of us

thanks for everyone's input.
requested and received tix in sec. 9
placed in row 25 seats 12-15

see you at the games.