The new Alliance of American Football announced last week that one of its eight franchises will play in Birmingham in 2019. The AAF's Alabama entry won't be the first professional football team to call Legion Field home. This story focuses on the Birmingham Barracudas, a Canadian Football League team that played at Legion Field in 1995.
Of Birmingham's six professional football franchises including the newly formed Alliance of American Football squad, all but one have been from upstart leagues.
The lone exception was the Birmingham Barracudas, who played the 1995 season at Legion Field as part of a short-lived expansion into the United States by the Canadian Football League.