UAB Considering Adding A Live Komodo Dragon To Their Field

The comeback story of UAB’s football program has been nothing short of amazing. After Alabama fulfilling Bear Bryant’s death wish of destroying the UAB football program, the Blazers came back from the dead in 2017. Since then, 21-9, including a CUSA championship.

Currently, UAB is building their new stadium. The state of the art stadium has fans excited, but you can never have too much excitement from your fan base, so UAB’s AD has been thinking of various ways to increase excitement.

SOURCE-AL.com: Fans are really excited about it. Some on Twitter have even suggested a live komodo dragon exhibit? What are your feelings on that and is it within your power to make it happen?

Ingram: “Funny story. I came here from Temple University and they are the Owls. And we partnered with a zoo in Philadelphia to get a live owl at our games. The owl’s name was Stella, and she was really stout and a beautiful animal, and fortunately well-trained. You could take your picture next to Stella, fans loved it, and we brought her to football and basketball games and she just sat on a perch with her handler. It was really a neat deal.

“So, I thought the same thing coming here. How cool would it be to get a komodo dragon? As luck would have it, within my first couple of weeks, someone from the Birmingham Zoo was here for a meeting. Introduced, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe you’re here. I’ve got this idea I want to share with you. What do you think having a komodo dragon?”’

This. would. be. AMAZING. Ingram knows what it takes to succeed in the G5. It’s a Semi Pro like move, but that’s what makes it so perfect.

G5 teams should start thinking more and more like minor league baseball teams. They come up with crazy ways to get fans to the stadium. A team like UAB should have multiple promotions every single home game. Make it FUN to come to the game.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s going to occur:

“Children getting spit on and paralyzed, and eaten, potentially, by the komodo dragon. I thought it seemed like a great idea, but apparently it’s not as good of an idea as I once thought.”

Fucking kids.

Also, ever heard of survival of the fittest? If a kid gets spit on, a kid gets spit on. That’s how it used to work.