{"id":3667,"date":"2021-06-03T23:12:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2021-06-03T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:17:26","slug":"vulcans-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/2021\/06\/vulcans-in-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans?  In Birmingham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing a site selling t-shirts of defunct sports teams, and learned that there was a team in the World Football League called the Birmingham Vulcans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3681 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Birmingham_Vulcans_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So of course I looked for the team in any team sets available for games that I play.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that they played for one season, or rather part of a season before the league folded.<\/p>\n<p>They were the team with the best record when the league ceased operations, so a bunch of sports writers declared them the champions of that shortened season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3680 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975wfl.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975wfl.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975wfl-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3669\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975birmingham.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975birmingham.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975birmingham-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3674\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975memphis.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975memphis.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975memphis-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3670\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975charlotte.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975charlotte.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975charlotte-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3673\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975jacksonville.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975jacksonville.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975jacksonville-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3675\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975philadelphia.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975philadelphia.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975philadelphia-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3679\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975socal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975socal.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975socal-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3677\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975sanantonio.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975sanantonio.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975sanantonio-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3678\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975shreveport.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975shreveport.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975shreveport-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975hawaii.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975hawaii.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975hawaii-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3676\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975portland.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975portland.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975portland-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3671\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975chicago.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975chicago.gif 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1975chicago-2x1.gif 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I may replay the entire season, or just the games that were never played.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing a site selling t-shirts of defunct sports teams, and learned that there was a team in the World Football League called the Birmingham Vulcans. So of course I looked for the team in any team sets available for games that I play. I learned that they played for one season, or rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[245,44,251],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grid-iron-wars","tag-245","tag-football","tag-wfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}