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The stadium's future beyond the 2020 college football season is uncertain. The Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center Authority started construction of a new stadium on the Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex grounds in July 2019. [9] UAB football moved into the new 47,000-seat Protective Stadium, in 2021. [10] [11]
On November 11, 1892, Alabama won its first game ever played, against Birmingham High School 56–0. They lost the first Iron Bowl against Auburn, 32–22, on February 22, 1893 at Lakeview. Alabama played home games at Lakeview between the 1892 and 1894 seasons, with an all-time record at Lakeview Park of 2–5. [5]
Protective Stadium is a football stadium owned and operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. [2] [3] Since its opening in 2021, the stadium has been named for Protective Life, a financial service holding company based in Birmingham, which pays $1 million per year as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. [4]
However, despite the majority of past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant–Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the ...
During construction, the venue was named Protective Stadium via a sponsorship deal with the Birmingham-based Protective Life insurance company. [14] The 47,100-seat facility [ 15 ] opened on October 2, 2021 as the new home of UAB Blazers football , with UAB's first game being a 36–12 loss to Liberty . [ 16 ]
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Protective Stadium, current venue of the Birmingham Bowl. The bowl marked the return of post-season football to the city of Birmingham, which previously hosted the Dixie Bowl from 1947 to 1948, the Hall of Fame Classic from 1977 to 1985 (which relocated to Tampa and became the Outback Bowl), and the All-American Bowl from 1986 to 1990 (which was canceled when the SEC Championship Game was ...
Between 1978 and 1988, the Blazers played their home games at the off-campus Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex Arena, located just north of downtown Birmingham. [4] On December 3, 1988, the men's team defeated Vanderbilt 76–69 in the first game played at the then named UAB Arena. [ 5 ]