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Were the annual AL/AU games played in Birmingham considered neutral
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:06 am
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:06 am
site games like TX/OK or GA/FL? Or were they handled differently? Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:07 am to Indiana Tiger
By Alabama fans yes.
By Auburn fans no.
By Auburn fans no.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:08 am to stat19
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By Alabama fans yes.
By Auburn fans no.
To anyone not a bama fan...no.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:08 am to Indiana Tiger
It was a 50/50 ticket split, so yes, it was a neutral site. It's not Alabama's fault our fans are better at getting tickets.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:09 am to piggidyphish
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To anyone not a bama fan...no.
Well, let's be honest for a second here.
By Alabama fans yes.
By Auburn fans no.
No one else fricking cared.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:09 am to bigpapamac
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It was a 50/50 ticket split, so yes, it was a neutral site. It's not Alabama's fault our fans are better at getting tickets.
Was it. I thought that the "home team" got a bigger cut.
And i agree, it's not bama's fault that more bama fans got tickets.
But it certainly wasn't neutral.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:09 am to Indiana Tiger
imagine playing in a stadium every year that your opponent used as their home field.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:10 am to cyde
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Well, let's be honest for a second here.
By Alabama fans yes.
By Auburn fans no.
No one else fricking cared.
True. I guess they way i'd try to rephrase this is to the causal observer it would not appear neutral.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:11 am to piggidyphish
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Was it. I thought that the "home team" got a bigger cut.
I don't think so. This was obviously before Auburn moved their home game to Auburn and Alabama kept it's home game at Legion Field until 2000.
This post was edited on 10/20/11 at 10:12 am
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:11 am to bigpapamac
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It was a 50/50 ticket split, so yes, it was a neutral site. It's not Alabama's fault our fans are better at getting tickets.
Except for the LARGE allotment of tickets that went to local politicians, friends and family, which were 99% bama fans.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:13 am to bigpapamac
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Alabama kept it's home game at Legion Field until 2000.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:14 am to diddydirtyAubie
The Auburn/Alabama game. We played our home game in the series at Legion Field up until 2000 when we played yall at BDS for the first time. Was that hard to understand?
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:15 am to diddydirtyAubie
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imagine playing in a stadium every year that your opponent used as their home field.
I understand. It's just that I'm collecting some data for a personal project and I don't know how to handle that game. Arky in Little Rock is a home game. Bama playing LSU in Birmingham is a home game. This one is not clear.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:16 am to Indiana Tiger
Label it as neutral with an asterisk
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:18 am to Indiana Tiger
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I understand. It's just that I'm collecting some data for a personal project and I don't know how to handle that game. Arky in Little Rock is a home game. Bama playing LSU in Birmingham is a home game. This one is not clear.
Yea it's considered neutral by all written accounts. But it wasn't.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:19 am to Indiana Tiger
Auburn had to expand their stadium bigger than Legion Field. The first Iron Bowl in Auburn was 2 years later.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:19 am to Indiana Tiger
Personally I am glad the IB went on campus and that Alabama no longer has any association with Legion Field. Arkansas should take note.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:21 am to Indiana Tiger
Tickets were supposed to be split 50/50 between the two schools. However, there was a group of tickets - probably two or three thousand - that were alloted to Birmingham area politicians and to the bondholders that put up money to fund Legion Field's construction. Most of these people that got tickets in the special allotment were Bama fans.
So while the "general" ticket issue was said to be a 50/50 split, the total number of tickets distributed never was exactly equal, even in years when Auburn was the "home" team.
So while the "general" ticket issue was said to be a 50/50 split, the total number of tickets distributed never was exactly equal, even in years when Auburn was the "home" team.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:21 am to stat19
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By Alabama fans yes.
By Auburn fans no.
50/50 ticket splits, and Auburn playing their big games in Birmingham for years (because Auburn was in bumfrick) lent itself to neutrality.
Posted on 10/20/11 at 10:22 am to piggidyphish
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True. I guess they way i'd try to rephrase this is to the causal observer it would not appear neutral.
I guess so. The only thing is where else could we have had it? It's not like the equidistant, neutral areas had stadiums which could support the game.
Maybe Mobile?
Ok, I laugh, but I also just threw up a little in my mouth too.
Seriously, though, Mobile would be too far south for 'Bama fans and Huntsville would be too far north for Auburn fans. They should have picked a spot somewhere in like... Wilcox County or something and built a stadium for the game there.
This post was edited on 10/20/11 at 10:24 am
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