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Alabama's Don Hutson was in the first class to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963

The BDFL Champions Hall of Fame
TITLETOWN - Canton, Ohio and Tuscaloosa, Alabama don't have a whole lot in common as cities, but both love their football and both know what a championship team looks like. Canton was where pro football was born in 1920 and Tuscaloosa is where Southern college football took root back in 1892. The Pro Football Hall of Fame (NOTE: It's not the NFL Hall of Fame) is located in Canton while the BDFL's Hall of Fame lives on "The Cloud" somewhere. The BDFL was founded in 1995 and has been crowning a league champion for 23 years. The Fairfield PowerSleds won the first BDFL title back in 1995 and the Western Hills Wildcats won the last one in 2018. Both teams earned their ticket to the BDFL's Hall of Fame. The BDFL has one shameful "tainted" title from back in 1997 when the Capital City Bullets won it with a losing record, but that will never happen again. Nowadays, the league champion gets to take home the coveted Grand Daddy trophy for a year similar to the NHL's Stanley Cup. There have been 12 different BDFL franchises win the league's championship and a hand-full of those who have never won a title. This group is referred to as the "Null Set Club" and there are four members of this club still milling around the BDFL. To save them the embarrassment of a public listing, the league and these teams all know who they are. Don Hutson to this day is arguably the best receiver to ever play the game and he's the man in the icon of the BDFL's official Hall of Fame trademark.

THE BDFL CHAMPIONS BY SEASON
1995 Fairfield PowerSleds	1996 Fairfield PowerSleds	1997* Capital City Bullets	1998 The Wizards of Greystone
1999 Gulf Coast Gamblers	2000 Gulf Coast Gamblers	2001 Lake Cyrus Sloth Monsters	2002 Magic City Mayors
2003 Riverchase Cheetahs	2004 Smoke Rise Woosiers	2005 Riverchase Cheetahs	2006 Pasco County Wizards
2007 Riverchase Cheetahs	2008 Benton Bullets	2009 Mineral Springs Grenadiers	2010 Riverchase Cheetahs
2011 Fairfield PowerSleds	2012 Black Creek Wooden Warriors	2013 Fairfield PowerSleds	2014 Smoke Rise Woosiers
2015 Silver Lakes Sloth Monsters	2016 Jugtown Juggernauts	2017 Western Hills Wildcats	2018 Mt. High Blue Deacons

*BDFL title awarded despite a losing record. Loophole in the rules that was corrected very shortly thereafter. Commonly referred to as the "Tainted Title" in and around the league.