Name: Guy Flavors
Favorite Team: Washington Pirates
Should the Bulldogs relocate?: Yes
Why: Crain doesn’t seem like he wants to stay in Baltimore. Neither do the fans and the city. Atlanta would make a great NFA market. It is in a somewhat-untapped market with no teams (minus Miami and the Texas teams) in the Deep South and since that region loves college Football, the NFA should be no different.

Do any of the current teams play in domes yet?

Name: Bobert Billiams
Team: "Whichever doesn't get me hit" - Ralph Cox (Originally the Pirates, but I do like some newer additions like LA, Miami, Detroit and Cleveland)
Relocate?: Sure, why not?
Reason: While Baltimore seems to truly want their team to work, their owner is too much. It is like a bad relationship. Sure, you love the idea of the other individual, but it is toxic and not healthy. The move is win/win for the league. Either they get a successful city in the South, or the owner gets laughed out of the league and shows that Baltimore could work as a viable market under the right circumstances. Worst case is that Georgia doesn't work and Baltimore refuses to play with the idea of a football team ever again..... which is ok because there are many markets in the USA that are just as good.

Name: Titus Jacobs
Favorite Team: New York Cannons
Should the Bulldogs Relocate?: Yes
Your Reasoning Why: Simply put, Baltimore has given up on the Bulldogs. Bay Stadium is very outdated and the city is unwilling to give the Bulldogs' ownership what they want. Also, Baltimore -- and pretty much the entire State of Maryland, for that matter -- is basically Washington Pirates territory due to that team's history of success. With that said, the Bulldogs relocation to Atlanta will give the team an opportunity to start over from the ground up. Additionally, the NFA should be able to gain a more established presence in the Southern markets with this move.

Relocation Council Results
For 3 days Jim Crain and many others sat and awaited the decision the Relocation Council would come to. It wouldn’t be until February 19th that the decision would be submitted to the league and the announcement that followed would come. The vote would pass with a resounding 8-3 vote in favor of relocating the Bulldogs.  

Many of the members of the council pointed to the Bulldogs lack of attendance and location as their biggest reasons for voting to allow them to relocate. 
“Baltimore has a nearby rival close by (Washington Pirates) that's significantly more successful than they are.  There's a real possibility that even in the city of Baltimore itself, there may be more Pirates fans than Bulldogs fans.  The attendance for Bulldog games could be evidence of that.” said Johnny Armando, a council member. Another also mentioned Philadelphia as another successful team that has possibly taken a lot of the Bulldogs market.
One member claimed this to be a win-win situation for the NFA. “Either they get a successful city in the South, or the owner gets laughed out of the league and shows that Baltimore could work as a viable market under the right circumstances."
Finally, several members mentioned how, despite the quality of ownership and past failures, Atlanta is a great southeastern market that, as the previously mentioned Armando stated, the NFA would greatly enjoy expanding its presence in. 

But it wasn’t all positives. While not as outspoken, some voters had serious concerns with Atlanta’s ability as a market and felt as though it would be a big mistake moving out of a city with such a long history in professional football. They pointed to the failed SFL experiment where markets such as Atlanta, New Orleans and Birmingham, and even to an extent Houston, who didn’t start garnering much of a following until starting play in the NFA, as evidence that the South maybe wasn’t ready for football. At least that relocating one of the foundations of the league to such a risky market wasn’t the smartest move in the world, no matter how nice the stadium package seems. 

Either way, the next morning after the official announcement from the league Jim Crain officially came out and thanked the city of Baltimore for all the memories. Him and Casey Ford would hold a press meeting at the stadium within the week and would officially complete the transaction to give Ford an unexpected 45% stake in the team. Giving up nearly half of the team’s ownership. Many were surprised initially that Ford had convinced Crain to give up that high a percentage of the franchise, until they found out that Ford had paid a whopping 6.5 million for that stake. Obviously, this was the tipping point that Crain needed to move the team out of his hometown. Despite how much he wanted to keep the team at home, he wasn’t going to pass up an offer of $6.5 million dollars for under half of the team’s ownership, and the ability to move his team to a brand new $35 million dollar stadium, without having to pay a penny of the price.  

The construction of the new stadium will get underway in September of this year and is planned to open in around 30 months, or approximately in the spring of 1972. Crain has already said that he wants to name the stadium after his late father and founder of the team, Patrick Crain. Other possibilities include Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Stadium, honoring the late civil rights leader who was a native Atlantan and extremely notable figure in America over the past several years. The stadium is officially planned to hold 67,535 people, making it the 5th largest capacity in the league. 

Until the stadium construction completes in 1972, the Bulldogs will play at Jefferson Stadium. Jefferson Stadium was the home of the Atlanta Copperheads and the current home of the Atlanta State Thrashers.

Thank you to everyone who voted in the council! Let me know what you think of the Bulldogs officially relocating to Atlanta!