The Birmingham Stallions were a franchise in the United States Football League, an attempt to establish a second professional league of American football in the United States in competition with the National Football League. They played their home games at Birmingham, Alabama's Legion Field. They competed in all three USFL seasons, 1983-1985, and seemed to be one of the league's better-run and more viable franchises, an organization which could have had a chance to have succeeded if the USFL organization as a whole had been better-funded and better-run. One of their better-known players was former Pittsburgh Steelers backup quarterback Cliff Stoudt, who had won four Super Bowl rings with his former team, literally without having ever taken a snap in either a regular season or playoff game. He proved to be quite talented when given a chance to play, as did many other Stallions players, some of whom went on to have at least brief careers in the NFL once the USFL went out of existence.
Jerry Sklar, former President of the USFL's BirminghamStallions, was one of the community leaders that met with Schramm.
The reason we were able to do Birmingham so quickly is we know its excellent reputation, we were able to negotiate a very satisfactory lease at Legion Field and the city made commitments for all the things we were looking for.
Birmingham could be "the premier franchise in the league" and Maloof said he wouldn't be surprised by crowds of 50,000 at Legion Field.
Birmingham (ˈbɝmɪŋˌhæm) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County.
Birmingham is located on the heart of a tornado alley known as the Dixie Alley due to the frequency of tornadoes in Central Alabama.
Birmingham is served by three Interstate Highways, Interstate 20, Interstate 65, and Interstate 59, as well as a southern beltway Interstate 459 and the Elton B. Stephens (Red Mountain) Expressway (U.S. Highway 31 and U.S. Highway 280).
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