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True, but that doesn't really provide any context because Harrisburg doesn't have a pro franchise either. Here is how Birmingham's TV market compares to some cities with pro franchises:

#40 Birmingham
#45 Oklahoma City
#47 Jacksonville
#48 Memphis
#51 Buffalo
#53 New Orleans

Birmingham could have supported a pro franchise up until about 10 years ago. The city had a remarkable corporate base for its size at the time with 6 Fortune 500 headquarters which was more than some much larger metro areas and had the money to support a franchise in one of the big pro sports. In fact, a study just a few years ago that measured what pro sports each city could support showed that Birmingham was one of just a small handful of metro areas that had either one or no sports franchises that could support a pro franchise in every major league sport except baseball.

Here's a study from less than 3 years ago that shows the current cities with an NFL franchise along side the small handful of cities that have the financial capacity to support an NFL franchise. Bham was on the list:

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This post was edited on 5/16/12 at 8:56 am

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Posted by KillianRussell

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Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 5/16/12 at 10:54 am to Govt Tide

There are many of these list, one can google until the find one with the data parameters set that shine advantagously on your squad

ETA Harrisburg proves how absurd the idea that pro football would survive in B'ham.

Missing from the cut and pasted TV market data is Harrisburg/York ranking one before or one after B'ham/Hoover

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