Why not let it fall apart? Look at the surrounding hood. It fits right in. Joe That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. -Abraham Lincoln ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Boozer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:09 AM Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] "This is depressing."
> I'm sad. There are so many meories there and the city of Birmingham is going > to let the place just fall apart. > > UAB will end up playing games at Shades Valley and hoping some of the fans > from Firday night's game are still there so the place will look full. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Behalf Of Devonna Snuggs > >Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:42 AM > >To: RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List > >Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] "This is depressing." > > > > > >yep, I grew up going to games at Lesion Field too and I was also there for > >315 but I'm NOT sad!!!!!!!!!!! Thank God, it's about > >time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >> > >http://www.rammerjammeryellowhammer.com/weblog/2004/08/this_is_depr > >ess_1.htm > >l > >> > >> This is depressing. > >> > >> The Birmingham News reports(sorry: r/r) that the City of Birmingham has > >declared that the upper deck at Legion Field is structurally unsound, and > >cannot handle spectators. The 72,000 seats in the main stadium > >structure are > >unaffected, the city reports, though something tells me spectators might be > >more than a wee bit nervous about sitting under the condemned upper deck. > >The finding also means that last year's season opener was likely Alabama's > >last game in Legion Field (I was there but didn't think to pay my last > >respects) since the upper deck closure means that Legion Field no > >longer has > >enough seats to accommodate the Tide, which had tentative plans for as many > >as three more games at the stadium. > >> > >> For someone who grew up watching Alabama play in Birmingham, this is > >beyond depressing. I saw Bear Bryant win his 315th at Legion Field, and > >great games with Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Tennessee and LSU, and of > >course, many an Iron Bowl, back in the days when the tickets were split > >50/50 between the red and the blue. I actually have a piece of astroturf > >from Legion Field, sold in swatches when it was taken up and replaced with > >grass. It's also a bummer because Legion Field's steep design made it about > >three times as loud as Bryant Denny's open bowl shape. And the > >thundering of > >pounding feet in the upper deck truly made for an anxious, exciting, > >frenetic atmosphere at college football games. Legion Field makes a couple > >of appearances in RJYH ... "a battleship gray structure atop a cross-hatch > >of I-beams -- in a steel town like Birmingham, no one would've thought to > >slap a facade on something so beautiful as a girder -- that hovers gloomily > >over the neighborhood like a summer thunderhead..." and in the book, it's > >the site of a soul-wrenching last second loss, and an ensuing mini-riot in > >the student section. > > > > > >______________________________________________________ > >RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List > > > >"Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup!" > > > >To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription > >visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List > > "Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup!" > > To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net > ______________________________________________________ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List "Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup!" To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net AOL.com addresses are NOT allowed on this list.Get a real ISP.
