Your RBR Word of the Day: senescent

by Todd on May 4, 2009 8:00 AM CDT

senescent \si-NES-uhnt\, adjective:
Growing old; aging.

The City of Birmingham could make Legion Field, the site of some of the greatest moments in college football history, into something more than a senescent relic but "building a dome" is a better opportunity to rob it's citizens blind with tax hikes while not actually having to accomplish anything.

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But if Birmingham had a dome

it could host the 2020 Olympics.

I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey.

by Tusk on May 4, 2009 9:25 AM CDT reply actions

you forgot the /sarcasm tag

by The Beard on May 4, 2009 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions

I

don’t have it front of me and I’m too lazy to look but someone did a really well-researched article on the viability of private investor financed stadiums and 100% tax payer funded ones. The Wash. Nats new stadium has a huge operating deficit and its only been around 2 years. And the promises of it creating a domino effect as far as new commerce around it, so far have been unfulfilled.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on May 4, 2009 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions

I use to love

going to Legion Field, it was what big time college football was all about. And the Iron Bowl when the stadium was 50/50 was unreal. Those games can not be duplicated.

But the atmosphere in T-town blows away anything Legion Field ever was or could have hoped to be.

Still, it is really sad to see what it has become.

I hate the NCAA more than UT & AU combined. At least with UT & AU you got a fighting chance.

by 5026 on May 4, 2009 9:25 AM CDT reply actions

There is nothing that can be done to improve Legion

short of buldozing all the surrounding Gov’t housing and starting from scratch.
Perhaps if the city were to work with B’ham Southern and give tax breaks to people who would renovate/revive some of those great old houses that are there.
The area is dire need of re-development, that’s for sure.

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.

by That Other Dave on May 4, 2009 1:50 PM CDT reply actions

Great!

Now Birmingham can get that pro team they’ve been talking about for the last, I don’t know, 40 years. When I lived in B’ham in the early 90s, we voted down a dome provision which promised the Minnesota Vikings if we just built the dome with our tax dollars. Now that it is apparently a go, I’m looking forward to the Birmingham Vikings coming soon!

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on May 5, 2009 10:39 AM CDT reply actions