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(01-26-2018 10:36 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I remember the Steeldogs purging their roster and adding Gumps and Barns near the end and it backfired. hell they even added jay barker for a backup as a publicity stunt. The team tanked and attendance did as well. Just sign the best players and win. yea, you can add a couple local guys if good but this area only supports a winner, especially when the new wears off.

+1

People want a good product. Just look at Raw 25 lol.

(01-25-2018 06:05 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I think it could work if done correctly. If you market it to the right people and have it at the right time of year it would at least be interesting to me. Just for simplicity’s sake if you created a team in alabama it would have to be made up of former Alabama and Mississippi college players. Make a bunch of teams like that and you would at least have some regional affiliations. If you have a team in Birmingham whose qb played at Washington and rb at ss state, who around here really cares?

Didn't someone try that already and it not only did not come to fruition it got lambasted.

(01-26-2018 11:25 AM)rook360 Wrote:  

(01-25-2018 06:05 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I think it could work if done correctly. If you market it to the right people and have it at the right time of year it would at least be interesting to me. Just for simplicity’s sake if you created a team in alabama it would have to be made up of former Alabama and Mississippi college players. Make a bunch of teams like that and you would at least have some regional affiliations. If you have a team in Birmingham whose qb played at Washington and rb at ss state, who around here really cares?

Didn't someone try that already and it not only did not come to fruition it got lambasted.

I remember it being discussed but I don't know if it ever came to fruition. It didn't seem to garner a lot of interest.

Yeah, i can’t recall that league ever taking off either. I liked the concept.

It's going to be another year or two, then crash and burn league.

Besides, "no criminal record allowed" will severely limit the available bammers.

Will limit any sec players..... LOL

There have been some leagues that have had area specific drafting.

I think the CBA team - the bandits had rights to a certain number of players from area schools.

You had Jim Farmer, etc. playing for them.

Can't believe people are going to fall for his gimmick again.

Birmingham falls for every gimmick.

(01-25-2018 01:35 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  What would those failures be?

The Cape Cod Coliseum and the Cape Cod Buccaneers

(01-26-2018 08:23 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Birmingham falls for every gimmick.

To be fair, B'ham has not been offered many "surefire" options. They have had successful local products undermined by faulty league decisions (Americans & Stallions), the NFL Europe (can't get more locked than that), the CFL and USFL (while playing in the spring). One wit said the WFL should have placed a team in the capitol of the Philippines so they could have the Manila Folders.

The XFL may make a successful comeback as a spring league (perhaps as a "D" league for the NFL) as well. What offers will the city get as alternatives? I would bet that an XFL team playing at the BJCC would outdraw a pro soccer team playing at UAB.

That is probably true. The 2nd/3rd tier soccer team is probably much cheaper to run though. I expect the soccer team to be successful, i don’t have high hopes for the XFL, if Birmingham even got a team.

(01-26-2018 10:36 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I remember the Steeldogs purging their roster and adding Gumps and Barns near the end and it backfired. hell they even added jay barker for a backup as a publicity stunt. The team tanked and attendance did as well. Just sign the best players and win. yea, you can add a couple local guys if good but this area only supports a winner, especially when the new wears off.

Barker was also the QB for the Bolts, who finished 2-8. Coincidence?

Maybe he can come back for the first game and get knocked out at halftime for the fans? I’d buy a ticket just to see that.