Bellcows win the Battle of El Dorado

FIELDSTOWN - Called "Elda-raida" by the locals, El Dorado has always been an interesting piece of the greater Fieldstown community. It is located at the lower end of Fieldstown Road past McDuffie Hollow and Newfound Road and it ends at the old railroad tracks just before the Brookside Coalburg Road. It borders Fieldstown proper to the east, Mineral Springs and Watson to the west, Newfound and Mt.Olive to the north and Lassiter Mountain and Dogtown to the south. El Dorado was once the home of the Jew Hollow mining settlement from the late 1800s to the 1920s and it is the current home of Gardendale's Kenneth A. Clemons Recreational Complex. Once given up for dead due to unregulated strip mining, El Dorado is now a striving part of northwest Jefferson County. Where the actual name "El Dorado" came from has been debated by the scholars at the North Jefferson Historical Society for decades now, but with it's rich black gold (coal) heritage, it is believed to be named after the mythical lost "City of Gold" in South America which was searched for by many during the exploration period of the New World including the Spanish Conquistadors and England's Sir Walter Raleigh. El Dorado's "Straight" was a hot bed for illegal drag racing in the 1950s and ultimately led to the opening of the legal dragstrip raceway atop nearby Lassiter Mountain in 1958 by the Black Widows car club. At the turn of the 19th century, coal mining in these parts was highly competitive. Neighboring Brookside was incorporated as a city in 1898 and has its own illustrious history as a coal-mining boomtown. The Brookside mine was owned by the Coalburg Coal & Coke Co. while the mine at Jew Hollow was owned by the Pratt Coal & Coke Co. Since then, there has always been a natural rivalry between these two former mining camp towns. In the BDFL, this coal-mining rivalry has been revived and is now celebrated annually with the "Battle of El Dorado" grudge match between the Brookside Dogs and the Fieldstown Bellcows. The winners (Bellcows) get a shiny fiddle made of gold and bragging rights for a year while the losers (Dogs) get a cold lump of coal. El Dorado by The Jayhawks (2018)

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The BDFL's 1st Roster Power Rankings

TITLETOWN - As we head into the BDFL's patented post-season with the Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS) and the Big Mullet Series (BMS) beginning in Week 15, keep an eye out for the teams who have the most depth on their rosters. With injuries, COVID-19 and teams resting players late in the season, those teams with the deepest rosters will be the favorites to advance in the BDFL's post-season playoffs. Below is the BDFL's first-ever Roster Power Rankings (RPR). The RPR list below is based on a team's total roster point total through Week 13. These rankings can be looked at in several different ways, like who got the most from their team, who managed what they had the worse, who was fortunate, who had some bad luck, etc., etc. However, these teams at the top will most likely be the favorites and the teams to beat, to advance in the post-season from here on out. Highlighted in orange below are the teams projected by the BDFL's media experts to qualify for the 2020 Big Daddy Championship Series beginning in Week 15.