If one thing is for certain, a season without Alabama football would be a huge loss financially for the city of Tuscaloosa.
But it turns out that it isn’t quite $2 billion, and much more along the lines of 1/10 of that.
On Monday a report from CBS42 Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox was quoted indirectly saying that not having Alabama football would result in a $2 billion loss in revenue.
The story obviously blew up because of the astonishing figures stated, but there was some uncertainty amongst the true wording of the statement.
In reality, what Maddox was trying to say is that the $2 billion dollars is the entire universities economic impact, not just the football team.