The plan is the city will allocate up to $500,000 toward putting on the event, including $50,000 to each college. Each college will also get 10% of ticket sales and the city’s general fund would receive the remaining 80% of the revenue generated by ticket sales. A 3-year option to re-new is one of the key clauses of the proposed contracts.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Today, the Birmingham Park Board approved an agreement for Legion Field to host an annual football game between Morehouse College and Tuskegee University starting this fall.
The agreement for the yearly “Football Classic” is for the next three years, but will first need to be approved by the Birmingham City Council.
“We’re constantly looking at ways we can position ourselves as a place where people come to enjoy all types of sporting events. We do this by ensuring the continued success of historic venues like Legion Field, while also looking towards the future and seeing what we can do next,” City Council President William Parker said in a statement.
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