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Veteran sportswriter and Birmingham, AL native Scott Adamson (The Home Team: My Bromance with Off-Brand Football) joins the pod to discuss his curious decades-long relationship with the various attempts at rooting pro football in the "Magic City." Birmingham's venerable Legion Field - known legendarily as the "Football Capital of the South" for its long-time association with the annual Alabama-Auburn "Iron Bowl" college season-ender - has also been home base for a parade of franchises in virtually every major challenger pro football league since the 1970s, including: The World Football League "World Bowl" champion Birmingham Americans (1974); 1975's de facto title-winning Birmingham Vulcans of the reincarnated second edition WFL; The USFL's perennially competitive Birmingham Stallions (1983-85); The World League of American Football's Birmingham Fire (1991-92); 1995's Birmingham Barracudas of the Canadian Football League; The woeful Birmingham Thunderbolts of 2001's original XFL; AND The pla