From ‘Funnymaine’ To Food And Fan Vendors, The Magic City Classic Is Serious Business

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

Jermaine “Funnymaine” Johnson makes his living as a comedian, but he’s not joking when he talks about the Magic City Classic.

“Absolutely not. Absolutely not,” said the man who grew up in Birmingham’s Pratt City neighborhood. “The Classic is serious business but it’s always so much fun for all the families and kids who get to march in the parade.”

Johnson knows of what he speaks. He marched in the Magic City Classic Parade when he was in middle school and then as a Mustang marcher at Jackson-Olin High School. He annually ventured back to Birmingham from Stillman College for the Classic when the last Saturday of October rolled around.

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