http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1214036114220520.xml&coll=2

How bout Raleigh instead ?

Maybe even Greensboro or Cary

Stupid fucking bammers

11/21/2008 11:12:03 PM

cary? i mean really?

11/21/2008 11:13:32 PM

cary wouldnt know what the fk to do th that many people

11/21/2008 11:14:32 PM

i mean the only city that might... might have a chance in NC is Charlotte

11/21/2008 11:15:21 PM

I mean, the thought of Birmingham hosting it seems farfetched, completely...but Birmingham was supposed to be what Atlanta is today, and Atlanta should be what Birmingham is.

Stupid city planners not ready for change in Birmingham screwed that up.

11/21/2008 11:15:28 PM

^i'd really like to know more about this sounds interesting

11/21/2008 11:16:56 PM

wow you guys are fagging it up


you're suppose to lol that a city as nondescript as Birmingham would have the balls to think it has a snowballs chance in hell

11/21/2008 11:17:50 PM

I'm loling...

really.

Story goes...looking at a map, Birmingham is a more central location in the southeast than Atlanta. It's a pretty equidistant shot to the edges of Texas, Arkansas, up to Kentucky, the Carolinas, and down in Florida.

Delta wanted to build main airline hub in Birmingham because of this central location, but 'Hamers felt it would change the local landscape too much...Delta went somewhere else, that somewhere else being Atlanta.

Other businesses followed suit, Atlanta grew into a metropolis, B'ham stayed a second thought.

11/21/2008 11:23:10 PM

sorry, shouldn't have fagged it up in chit chat, dunno what got into me. forgive me tdub.

11/21/2008 11:23:38 PM

we could have it at the softball complex in Garner

11/21/2008 11:24:00 PM

I'm not convinced ANY city in NC has a fighting chance. Charlotte maybe, but it's too close to Atlanta. Raleigh maybe, but the airport is WAY undersized, there's not enough hotel capacity, and downtown doesn't have enough cultured venues (upscale restaurants, museums, suit & tie type clubs) to warrant it yet.

To bring it back to the states I think we need to check Indianapolis, Chicago, Columbus (OH) is not too bad, Denver and Seattle.

Word on the news is that Denver and Stockholm have been on the short list for the last couple rotations and haven't surfaced yet. Denver turned down the Winter Olympics (apparently) in hopes of picking up the full deal.

On a side note I'm still trying to figure out where they're going to cram everyone into London. There's no real room to expand, and they can't just tell people to piss off like they can in China...

11/22/2008 12:02:53 AM

birmingham was historically a major southern city, probably moreso than atlanta

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 1:11 AM. Reason : -]

11/22/2008 1:05:29 AM

Birmingham loves the govnor.

11/22/2008 8:26:12 AM

Bringmeham?

11/22/2008 8:59:52 AM