Brookside Pride

Dogs upset the Cheetahs to win the title

BROOKSIDE, AL - There is an old wise saying that states, "You can take the boy out of Brookside, but you can't take the Brookside out of the boy" and it's true. Brookside is more than a small, historic town in Jefferson County, northwest of Birmingham, Alabama. Brookside is a town of pride. Settled by strong, tough Eastern Europeans (mostly Slovaks) who came over from the Old Country to work in the near by coal mines in the late 1800s. Brookside has always been a close-knit community of hard-working, God-fearing people. Named for its unique location along the legendary Five Mile Creek, Brookside has had its own twists and turns over the years. As a true "boomtown" in the early 1900s, Brookside was a vibrant and breathtaking town that once hosted Hollywood for the filming of the Coming Through movie on its streets in 1925. Brookside has survived violent coal miners strikes, three major floods, a school burning, church closings and recently a national police scandal. All the while, the town has never forgotten its roots and what made it strong in the first place, and that's the pride in their people. In Week 18 of the 31st season on the BDFL, Brookside's local football team (the Dogs) dug down deep to outlast the highly-favored Southside Cheetahs (15-9) in Big Daddy Bowl XXIV to bring home the coveted Grand Daddy Trophy to the town's proud people as the league's 2025 champions. The "BDFL Brookside Pride Vict’ry Tour" parade has been planned by the Mayor, the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce. The parade will start in Dogtown at Alford’s Grocery and proceed west down Brookside-Coalburg Road until it reaches Sharon Heights Baptist Church where it will take a right onto Bivens Brookside Road that leads into downtown Brookside. The parade will then cross over Five Mile Creek for the first time on the old proverbial "pedestrian bridge" as it enters town. The parade route will then proceed down Goose Alley over to Cardiff Street and over the Five Mile again to the Brookside Greenway & Ball Park and then on to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Local #64 before coming back and turning up Park Avenue to pass by the historic St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church. The parade will then take a left on Church Street near the Frank P. Slovensky estate, then to the right on Main Street and onto Tiger Hill Road. Once atop Tiger Hill, the parade will conclude at St. Michael’s Cemetery to bury the Southside Cheetahs one last time and crown the Brookside Dogs as the 2025 BDFL Champions. Don’t miss it!

Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2 (1984)

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