[2] McAlinden was featured in the squad in 1977 when they won the Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) final.
[4] In addition to his inter-county and club involvement, McAlinden played for Ulster in the Railway Cup.
[4] He played once for Glenavon against Larne in the Irish League, a game in which his team was defeated by a score of 4–2.
[4] He was appointed joint-manager of his county team from 1995 until 2001, with the help of Brian Canavan, who had retired from Armagh around the same time as McAlinden.
[4] When he discovered Coleman always liked the dressing room on the left side of St Tiernach's Park, McAlinden put together a plot to get it off him.
I gave him 20 quid and asked him to put our name on the dressing room on the left-hand side and keep the door locked until we arrived on the Sunday.
[4] The Armagh GAA chairman suggested they head to the opposing dressing room instead, but both Brians stood their ground.
[4] After losing to Kerry in the 2000 All-Ireland SFC semi-final, the squad voted to get rid of the "Two Brians".
[2] His son Thomas won an All Ireland Minor Championship medal in 2009 when he was playing for Armagh.