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Birmingham Americans
The Birmingham Americans were a professional football team based in Birmingham, Alabama in the World Football League, an attempt to start a new major professional football league in the United States in competition with the established National Football League. They competed in the 1974 season and won the only championship game that the league ever staged. They played their home games at legendary Legion Field.
The 1975 entry in the WFL was known as the Birmingham Vulcans. and they played until the league folded in midseason. The Americans/Vulcans developed a more considerable following than was typical of most WFL teams, and at least some effort was expended in an attempt to get the team admitted into the NFL for the 1976 season, although unlike the similar and more extensive effort in Memphis which involved actual cash deposits toward season tickets it seemed to consist mainly of getting fans to sign a "statement of support" somewhat similar to a petition. When the Memphis effort failed, Vulcans followers were forced to accept the inevitable as well, and efforts to get the team admitted as an NFL franchise were abandoned.
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