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(08-19-2015 02:05 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  I know that someone will correct me if I am wrong here, but it was my understanding that the the stadium certificates at LF entitled the owners to the right to buy tickets to those seats at regular price - not to free access to the events - for up to 48 hour before the events. After that they can be sold to the general public.

I know that I have attended many events like a Rolling Stones concerts at LF were those seats were definitely sold out and I'll bet that not all of those seats were bought by certificate holders.

I stand ready to be corrected.

According to the letter from the Park Board, the Stadium Certificates are contracts with the city for only football games at Legion Field. Each SC is for regular price (no premiums added) purchase of tickets for two seats in the designated sections - 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding 50 yard line sections in the east stands as well as the Gold Seats - and are perpetual in legal standing. According to the SC contracts, holders have the exclusive right to purchase those seats until the week of the individual game (effectively the Monday before a Saturday game).

That letter indicated that there are 2,500+ SCs so they cover about 5,000+ of the best seats at Legion Field. Due to secondary market purchases, the SCs are now said to be held by about 1,600 persons or businesses (back in the 1960s and 70s, they were being offered in the Classified section of the NEWS for $2,000 to $3,000 each). A major buyer was said to be Crawford Johnson, the Coca-Cola bottler for central Alabama. Perhaps Golden Flake Enterprises bought some as well.

We have been told that UAB has sold some of these seats as season tickets, but if so, it was not legal under the SC contracts, but if no one cares, it would go through. The city would be the one to have a gripe with UAB since it holds the contracts with the SC holders.

Too bad it won't be ready in time for the US Women's Exhibition game.

(08-19-2015 03:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 02:05 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  I know that someone will correct me if I am wrong here, but it was my understanding that the the stadium certificates at LF entitled the owners to the right to buy tickets to those seats at regular price - not to free access to the events - for up to 48 hour before the events. After that they can be sold to the general public.

I know that I have attended many events like a Rolling Stones concerts at LF were those seats were definitely sold out and I'll bet that not all of those seats were bought by certificate holders.

I stand ready to be corrected.

According to the letter from the Park Board, the Stadium Certificates are contracts with the city for only football games at Legion Field. Each SC is for regular price (no premiums added) purchase of tickets for two seats in the designated sections - 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding 50 yard line sections in the east stands as well as the Gold Seats - and are perpetual in legal standing. According to the SC contracts, holders have the exclusive right to purchase those seats until the week of the individual game (effectively the Monday before a Saturday game).

That letter indicated that there are 2,500+ SCs so they cover about 5,000+ of the best seats at Legion Field. Due to secondary market purchases, the SCs are now said to be held by about 1,600 persons or businesses (back in the 1960s and 70s, they were being offered in the Classified section of the NEWS for $2,000 to $3,000 each). A major buyer was said to be Crawford Johnson, the Coca-Cola bottler for central Alabama. Perhaps Golden Flake Enterprises bought some as well.

We have been told that UAB has sold some of these seats as season tickets, but if so, it was not legal under the SC contracts, but if no one cares, it would go through. The city would be the one to have a gripe with UAB since it holds the contracts with the SC holders.

Thanks, that pretty much confirms what I have heard in the past and pretty much puts to rests concerns that someone can be arrested for sitting in those the day of the game.

Once the certificate holder loses the right to buy the tickets to the seats by not buying those tickets in time, he/she and the city loose all rights to them. UAB can then sell those sell tickets to those seats and, if it doesn't, anyone can sit in them because they belong to no one.

I wonder if the other maintenance items are complete? This is from January.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index....r_bir.html

Quote:More than $700,000 worth of lighting, plumbing, accessibility and other infrastructure improvements are set for Legion Field.

The City Council Tuesday will vote on a $729,400 bid from Battle Miller Construction Corp. of Hoover perform work at the perennial structure.

Oh dear Ford, not this again. I'm leaving work early to find my old UAB season ticket stubs I saved somewhere in my attic.

(08-19-2015 02:21 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  F0x 6 reported Councilor Roberson as saying the city is negotiating with Coca-Cola to split the cost of the scoreboard. If that's done, the city will use the extra $750k to upgrade the locker rooms and speaker system.

Apparently thete might be a new Legion Field 'Stereo System'

http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/ne...um=twitter

(08-19-2015 06:01 PM)BlazerHam Wrote:  Apparently thete might be a new Legion Field 'Stereo System'

The only positive to not having football this year is not having the DJ. When Ray Watts dies and descends to the Ninth Circle of Pumpkin Hell, he deserves to have the Legion Field DJ serenade him for all eternity. That is how much I hate Ray Watts.

(08-19-2015 03:04 PM)Hopeful Wrote:  Too bad it won't be ready in time for the US Women's Exhibition game.

When is that? I totally may try to make that one.

(08-19-2015 08:16 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 06:01 PM)BlazerHam Wrote:  Apparently thete might be a new Legion Field 'Stereo System'

The only positive to not having football this year is not having the DJ. When Ray Watts dies and descends to the Ninth Circle of Pumpkin Hell, he deserves to have the Legion Field DJ serenade him for all eternity. That is how much I hate Ray Watts.

But how can you hate the DJ that much. He's just doing what he's told.

(08-19-2015 08:19 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 03:04 PM)Hopeful Wrote:  Too bad it won't be ready in time for the US Women's Exhibition game.

When is that? I totally may try to make that one.

Sept. 20.

(08-19-2015 08:20 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 08:16 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 06:01 PM)BlazerHam Wrote:  Apparently thete might be a new Legion Field 'Stereo System'

The only positive to not having football this year is not having the DJ. When Ray Watts dies and descends to the Ninth Circle of Pumpkin Hell, he deserves to have the Legion Field DJ serenade him for all eternity. That is how much I hate Ray Watts.

But how can you hate the DJ that much. He's just doing what he's told.

Kinda like Ray.

(08-19-2015 08:27 PM)TMcCarty Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 08:19 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 03:04 PM)Hopeful Wrote:  Too bad it won't be ready in time for the US Women's Exhibition game.

When is that? I totally may try to make that one.

Sept. 20.

I'll be over in Alabama anyway that weekend because we have a home game. I'm definitely making the trip up 65 on that Sunday to check out the Women's National team.

(08-19-2015 03:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(08-19-2015 02:05 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  I know that someone will correct me if I am wrong here, but it was my understanding that the the stadium certificates at LF entitled the owners to the right to buy tickets to those seats at regular price - not to free access to the events - for up to 48 hour before the events. After that they can be sold to the general public.

I know that I have attended many events like a Rolling Stones concerts at LF were those seats were definitely sold out and I'll bet that not all of those seats were bought by certificate holders.

I stand ready to be corrected.

According to the letter from the Park Board, the Stadium Certificates are contracts with the city for only football games at Legion Field. Each SC is for regular price (no premiums added) purchase of tickets for two seats in the designated sections - 10 & 11 in the west stands and the corresponding 50 yard line sections in the east stands as well as the Gold Seats - and are perpetual in legal standing. According to the SC contracts, holders have the exclusive right to purchase those seats until the week of the individual game (effectively the Monday before a Saturday game).

That letter indicated that there are 2,500+ SCs so they cover about 5,000+ of the best seats at Legion Field. Due to secondary market purchases, the SCs are now said to be held by about 1,600 persons or businesses (back in the 1960s and 70s, they were being offered in the Classified section of the NEWS for $2,000 to $3,000 each). A major buyer was said to be Crawford Johnson, the Coca-Cola bottler for central Alabama. Perhaps Golden Flake Enterprises bought some as well.

We have been told that UAB has sold some of these seats as season tickets, but if so, it was not legal under the SC contracts, but if no one cares, it would go through. The city would be the one to have a gripe with UAB since it holds the contracts with the SC holders.

I've have had four in Section 10 for about 12 years now.

But do you have a stadium certificate?

Do the people who own them even remember that they do? And do they care?

(08-20-2015 09:11 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  But do you have a stadium certificate?

Nope.

Anyone have a stadium certificate? I'm curious now. Has anyone ever seen one?

(08-20-2015 09:40 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I'm curious now. Has anyone ever seen one?

Yes.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...9551&hl=en

(08-20-2015 10:28 AM)BlazerHam Wrote:  https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...9551&hl=en

$150 in 1949!!!!