I cant wait to get the HELL out of Legion Field
(07-02-2015 01:37 PM)Blazer Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]I cant wait to get the HELL out of Legion Field
Most of us agree with your sentiment, but right now and for the foreseeable future, there is no other adequate alternative.
BTW, UAB at present is "out of Legion Field", but not happy about it.
(07-02-2015 01:32 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2015 01:00 PM)blazers9911 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2015 12:31 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ] (06-30-2015 10:03 PM)uabbean Wrote: [ -> ] (06-29-2015 02:23 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]I would think the Council wants reassurances about undergraduate programs rumored to be on a chopping block. A vibrant and growing UAB is dependent upon an expansion of undergraduate offerings in the future. It is the BOT's FEAR of such growth that drove the killing of the school's athletic programs in Dec. No one has been assured that the FB program was the only objective of the crimson centric BOT.
While the original owners are probably long dead, the certificates themselves were gradually consolidated by secondary purchases and/or inheritance and are very much alive legally. The Park Board said in their letter that about 1600 persons or businesses now owned the 2,500+ SCs which are legally binding on the city in perpetuity for all Legion Field football games. Apparently, few of that 1600 care a lot about UAB football, the Classic or the bowl game. I only know of two who regularly attend UAB games.
I assume that these are not separate unrelated instances in the grand scheme. Have the BOTs bought up the 1600 certificates so that our current students will now all quit UAB because the best seats are denied them - complete the BOT plot
One of the reported principal secondary purchasers of SCs during the time they were most valuable was the metro area Coca-Cola boss, and you know who his "great pair" friend (and his heir) was. Is it possible these folks were also into financing the "RAPS" movement back in 1998 in part to protect their investments in Legion Field? (every 100 SCs @ $3,000 each - 1970's money - equals $300,000.)
You are the only person concerned about these stupid stadium certificates. Somebody literally posted a picture of his seats in the area you can't have seats and stated those were the seats on his season tickets. Yet, that isn't enough. Nobody cares about the damn stadium certificates, can you please just drop it?
Also, why is great pair quoted? I'm confused. Are you quoting somebody?
You may be correct that I am the only one concerned about those SCs, but the FACT is that they are still perpetually valid legal contracts between their owners and the city. The possibility that UAB illegally sold such seats in violation of that contract because they could, does not diminish their status. "Nobody cares", while perhaps true, is not a legal defense of anyone's actions that violates any legal contract.
The "great pair" quote was in answer to the question about any possible link between the SCs (with many hundreds said to have been bought up by the Johnson family) and the BOT leadership. I suggested that there might be one.
Well we better let those stadium certificate holders know about this immediately. By the way, have you ever seen a said stadium certificate? Do you have any links to your incessant rambling on the subject? I tried to google it, but it keeps directing me to this site and the same tired nonsense.
I don't doubt they exist. It's just that no one who has them gives a ****.
(07-02-2015 01:32 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]"Nobody cares", while perhaps true, is not a legal defense of anyone's actions that violates any legal contract.
May not be a legal defense, but it is a great reason to stop bringing it up around here.
To be fair, he didn't bring it up in this thread. Someone pulled his string like a old doll and he went off.
Sooooo....
Explain these stadium or seat certificates again.
Oops! There it is...I googled it. Sorry.
So how does this reate to education in Alabama and government again?
(07-03-2015 01:27 AM)rook360 Wrote: [ -> ]Oops! There it is...I googled it. Sorry.
So how does this reate to education in Alabama and government again?
You are so mean
I cannot figure out
If it is to one tone deaf poster or the rest of us
I thought the stadium certificates were being converted to timeshares with Wyndham ;-) ?!?!
(07-02-2015 01:37 PM)Blazer Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]I cant wait to get the HELL out of Legion Field
I can't wait to get the HELL into Legion Field
Funny how 6 months can change your perspective.
(07-04-2015 02:43 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ] (07-02-2015 01:37 PM)Blazer Engineer Wrote: [ -> ]I cant wait to get the HELL out of Legion Field
I can't wait to get the HELL into Legion Field
Funny how 6 months can change your perspective.
Amen.
I agree, I was just frustrated about baiting.
It's been a while, but as I recall the stadium certificate seats must remain available until 48 hours before a game and then they can be sold. I think that while the seats are reserved for the certificate holders, they must still pay full price to use them.
I'm sure some will point out if I am wrong.
(07-05-2015 09:53 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]It's been a while, but as I recall the stadium certificate seats must remain available until 48 hours before a game and then they can be sold. I think that while the seats are reserved for the certificate holders, they must still pay full price to use them.
I'm sure some will point out if I am wrong.
Bbf will be here shortly.
It doesn't matter how many times facts are pointed out to him, he can't be swayed. He sticks to his facts, no longer how wrong. I've never seen him say "oh, I was mistaken."
Just be glad BBF believes we landed on the moon.
(07-05-2015 10:35 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]It doesn't matter how many times facts are pointed out to him, he can't be swayed. He sticks to his facts, no longer how wrong. I've never seen him say "oh, I was mistaken."
Just be glad BBF believes we landed on the moon.
Do we know for sure that he does??
(07-05-2015 10:03 PM)blazers9911 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-05-2015 09:53 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]It's been a while, but as I recall the stadium certificate seats must remain available until 48 hours before a game and then they can be sold. I think that while the seats are reserved for the certificate holders, they must still pay full price to use them.
I'm sure some will point out if I am wrong.
Bbf will be here shortly.
I am not the authority on these certificates. I was quoting a letter from the B'ham Park Board, copies of which I made and gave out to Blazer fans at a radio / call in show at Full Moon BBQ on Valley Ave. According to their letter, the designated seats could be sold only to Certificate holders until the week of the individual game. Within 7 days of the game (effectively that is the Monday before the Saturday game), the tickets could be sold to whomever had the money and wanted them.
This meant that 5,000+ of the prime sets were off the market (LEGALLY) for advance season ticket sales. Now when a UAB AD sold such seats in advance of the season anyways because "legally" doesn't matter, that is not shocking, but it does break the city's contract with those who hold the certificates. When UAB signs a contract with the city to use Legion Field, I would think it becomes a party to those contracts. If anyone checks with the city PB and finds the letter was in error, let us all know.
