"I feel that if South Alabama wants to buy them a stadium, South Alabama should fund it."
No one remark could sum up a community meeting held Monday night on the future of Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium: It was a lively and at times raucous affair that kept Mayor Sandy Stimpson on the hot seat for nearly two hours. Plenty of people, including Stimpson himself, had plenty to say.
But if you had to strip it all down to one core message, that remark from senior citizen Frances Thomas seemed to capture the single sentiment shared by most of the people in the room.