re: Saturday: The most highly anticipated Iron Bowl of my lifetime

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Bama should have had the balls to call their bluff to quit and take their ball and go home. I would have been fine with it they need the game more than we did.

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Birmingham forced Bama's hand on that. Legion Field and the surrounding area were really no longer suitable for this game. I would love to see another 50/50 split Iron Bowl again in Bham, just not at Legion Field.

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The Iron Bowl lost a lot it's meaning when they moved it out of Birmingham. It's the city's fault for not getting a stadium deal done so it was probably inevitable. However, AUs' s insistence to moving it to JH was just an attempt to gain an advantage. They didn't want to play Bama on a neutral site. Bama should have had the balls to call their bluff to quit and take their ball and go home. I would have been fine with it they need the game more than we did.

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Pat Dye was going to move the IB to Auburn regardless. For a number of reasons. 1. Recruiting. 2. Revenue 3. national prominence.

Same reason we no longer played Georgia in Columbus or Tennessee in Birmingham etc. Bama was the last bastion of resistence.

The fact that Bham couldnt/wouldnt do a stadium deal had as much to do with Bama wanting to play more games in T-Town as the IB. Birmingham has long had incompetent city government. This was a classic example.