For a majority of the 20th century, Legion Field was "the football capital of the south" and was Alabama's ( and sometimes Auburns) home away from home, playing most of their big games in Birmingham, including one of college footballs best rivalries, The Iron Bowl. It was also host to the Inaugural SEC Championship and hosted the championship for another year until it was moved to Atlanta. It was also host to the 1996 Olympics soccer preliminary matches and had the US vs Argentina give the stadium a record capacity of 83,310 spectators. The Iron bowl at Legion Field was a big tradition, as both teams split the stadium for a neutral site rivalry game. Over time in the 90s, due to stadium decay, money, and other reasons, Legion Field slowly lost those games in favor of playing on campus. 
Currently, Legion Field hosts the UAB Blazers and the future AAF league team, The Birmingham Iron. However, with a new stadium being built for UAB in the future, I feel Legion Fields time is short. On top of that UABs lack of success in selling tickets to games. So why not close out the legacy of a great stadium with old traditions?
Two last Iron Bowls played at Legion Field. Now to many people who have questions, I will try to answer all of them.
1. Why 2 Iron Bowls?- This way both schools will lose whatever money the games will earn on campus and with tickets respectively. 
2. The capacity has been greatly reduced, how will this work?- I feel as though if this were to happen, it would just make the demand for tickets much higher. This would also be the first time Legion field would be at full capacity since who knows when.

I feel as though this would give Legion Field the swan song it deserves. It held many classic iron bowls, such as "The Kick", "Punt Bama Punt" , "Bo over the Top", and "Wrong Way Bo". Why not have 2 more to commemorate tradition and to send Legion field out with a bang? Would love to hear some thoughts!