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(05-25-2021 12:45 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(05-24-2021 09:12 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(05-14-2021 02:22 AM)blazr Wrote:  Birmingham is a notorious “walk-up” city. I imagine we won’t see the map as full as we’d like but still have 80% capacity or more for most home games (w/ Liberty being packed of course)

One must remember that for 30 years a person could buy a General admission ticket - or wait for a free promotional ticket - and sit near the 50 yard line at most Blazer games at Legion Field. It may take a season or two to break that bad habit, and to convince casual fans they have to buy reserved seat tickets like they must for nearly all other stadiums. The days of "squatter's rights" to the best seats should be over.

Does that mean we never need speak of seat certificates ever again?!?!

I am delighted to see them go since they caused so much damage to the city's football heritage. I believe they cost us any real chance at NFL football, made it financially necessary to move Bama games to campus (after TIDE PRIDE was set up in the 1980s), and almost took UAB football away as well. If UAB had not decided to play football since 1990, who exactly would have used Legion Field for football the past three decades?

I hope the city is successful in bringing in other games but right now, the list is short -- one or two at the most.