[3] In addition to football, the stadium is also used for concerts (maximum capacity 50,000), boxing matches, high school graduations, trade shows, and festivals.

On May 4 and 5 of 1955, a tour headlining country and western stars Hank Snow, Faron Young, The Wilburn Brothers, Mother Maybelle, The Carter Sisters (including June, the future Mrs. Johnny Cash), Jimmy Rogers Snow, The Davis Sisters, Onie Wheeler and a still unknown Elvis Presley played two nightly shows there.

[5] On December 6, 2008, the Board of Trustees at the University of South Alabama approved adding football to its intercollegiate athletics program.

Beginning in 1974, the stadium began hosting the Gulf Coast Classic, an Alabama State University homecoming game against a fellow Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) opponent.

In 1988, the stadium hosted the first Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic, an annual football event that features the best senior high school players and top collegiate prospects from Mississippi against the best from Alabama.

The league champions were the Mobile Admirals, who hosted the RFL Bowl at Land-Peebles on June 20, 1999, and defeated the Houston Outlaws, 14-12, in front of a crowd announced as 5,571.

Held annually since then, the game has undergone several name changes due to sponsorship agreements; as of November 2019[update] it is known as the LendingTree Bowl.