The Birmingham Iron drew another sizeable crowd to Legion Field.

Birmingham’s latest foray into a professional spring football league drew an announced crowd of 17,319 for today’s 12-9 victory over the Salt Lake City Stallions, a few hundred more than last week’s attendance for the season-opening 26-0 victory over Memphis.

Today's crowd has to be viewed as a positive, considering temperatures hovered around 50 degrees under cloudy skies.

The Iron makes its first road trip to Atlanta next week, and the next home game is Sunday, March 3 against San Antonio.

Last week, Iron coach Tim Lewis said he was encouraged by the team's crowd support.

“I hope they fill it up,” Lewis said. “I hope they take those green tarps off (in the end zones), and that there’s a need to take them off.”