The Atlanta Falcons Football Team is owned by business man Arthur Blank, and eight limited partners.

Arthur Blank who purchased the team on February 2002 owns 90 % of the franchise and the eight limited partners own the remaining 10 % of the franchise.

Arthur Blank was born and raised in Flushing, New York.

The Atlanta Falcons Adviser Board is made up of eleven members: Arthur M. Blank, Henry L. “ Hank ” Aaron, Steve Bartkowski, Glenda Hatchett, David E. Homrich, Felker W. Ward, Jr., Carl Ware, Bill Bolling, Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Ingrid Saunders Jones and Andrew Young ( Ambassador ).

As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

The Atlanta Falcons began the Arthur Blank era of ownership with a 9 – 6 – 1 record and a berth in the playoffs as

“ The new Atlanta Falcons logo is fresh, strong and dynamic, and yet appreciates the tradition and history of this franchise ,” said Falcons owner and CEO Arthur Blank.

* Arthur Blank — co-founder of Home Depot, owner of the Atlanta Falcons

Upon selling the team to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank in September 2004, it was announced that the franchise would return to the downtown Philips Arena for the 2005 season in response to fan desires as expressed in a poll.

Falcons owner Arthur Blank did not want Vick on the Falcons, and after attempts to trade him failed, Vick was released.

In 2002, Gibbs and a small group of investors bought five percent of the Atlanta Falcons from owner Arthur Blank for $ 27 million.

Arthur Blank and his general manager, Rich McKay moved quickly to interview him for the Falcons's vacant head coaching position due to the firing of Dan Reeves.

In 2003, Arthur Blank, the new owner of Atlanta Falcons, funded the new state-of-the-art FieldTurf artificial surface system.

During the mid-2000s, several NFL owners at least partially owned arena football teams, such as Jerry Jones ( Dallas ), Arthur Blank ( Atlanta ), Bud Adams ( Tennessee ), Tom Benson ( New Orleans ), and Pat Bowlen ( Denver ), but very rarely did they ever promote or demote any players between the AFL and NFL, due in part to significant differences in the playing schedules and the style of play between outdoor and indoor football.

Arthur M. Blank ( born September 27, 1942 ) is an American businessman and a co-founder of The Home Depot.

Arthur Blank was born to a Jewish family, in Flushing, New York, with his father, Max, his mother, Molly, and his older brother, Michael.

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In 1978, after a disagreement with his boss at Handy Dan, he and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were both fired.

Together, with the help of New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors and business partner Arthur Blank, they launched the highly successful home-improvement retailer The Home Depot in 1979.

Ironically, Handy Dan employed two corporate officers named Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus.

After his career, Dunn took a stake in the Falcons ' ownership group led by Arthur Blank.

Team owner Arthur Blank publicly expressed his disapproval of Mora's comments.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Grace was a non-smoker but he enjoyed good food and wine ; many years later, when discussing the overheads incurred during Lord Sheffield's profitless tour of Australia in 1891 – 92, Arthur Shrewsbury commented: " I told you what wine would be drunk by the amateurs ; Grace himself would drink enough to swim a ship.

Arthur had been told at the French border to remove the dark cape he was wearing so that he would not be shot for a spy.

Joyce is also reported as having told Arthur Power that " what is clear and concise can't deal with reality, for to be real is to be surrounded by mystery.

At the show, Plant told the audience of his great admiration for Arthur Lee dating back to the mid-Sixties.

Gerald, a constant supporter of royal authority, in his account of the discovery clearly aims to destroy the idea of the possibility of King's Arthur's messianic return: " Many tales are told and many legends have been invented about King Arthur and his mysterious ending.

It is said that Arthur told his children to continue to petition the government for their inheritance, and in 1857 Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 ( which was a fraction of what was due ) to the Arthur St. Clair Memorial, to be divided to the six branches of the family, with each branch receiving $ 5, 000.

He is told that Arthur Curtis is merely a role he is playing, and his real name is Gerry Raigan, an alcoholic movie star caught in the middle of a brutal divorce and a declining career.

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and he later told his parents that he was immensely happy to behold the face of his lovely bride.

Arthur was doted on by his parents as he was an only child, and his mother had previously been told that she was unable to have children.

Gair tried to gain Country Party support, but talks with Nicklin broke down when federal Country Party leader Arthur Fadden told Nicklin that he had a chance to become Premier himself.

Arthur Haslerig and Sir Henry Vane threatened him, but Prynne told them he had as good right there as either, and had suffered more for the rights of parliament than any of them.

Spain later wrote that during that visit Arthur Wakefield " wished to make them a payment for the Wairau, but they positively refused to sell it, and told him they would never consent to part from it .”

During the hours-long operation, surgeon Dr. Arthur Kobrine was informed of the media's announcement of Brady's death, to which he retorted, " No one has told me and the patient.

Arthur would keep appearing on the stage in evening wear and would play a few bars of his mouth organ only to be told " Not now, Arthur!

Joseph is reported to have told his son Arthur that he was " a dunce at school " and that the only way that he could succeed in life would be in his father's flour mill.

King Arthur's encounter with the giant of St Michael's Mount-or Mont Saint Michel in Brittany-was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1136, and published by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485 in the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Le Morte d ' Arthur: Then came to Arthur an husbandman ... and told him how there was ... a great giant which had slain, murdered and devoured much people of the country ... journeyed to the Mount, discovered the giant roasting dead children, ... and hailed him, saying ... rise and dress thee, thou glutton, for this day shalt thou die of my hand.

Gunther portrays his son as a remarkable young man – he corresponded intelligently with Albert Einstein about physics – and the heartbreak of his death is told so movingly by Gunther that the book became a best-seller, and in 1975 was made into an Emmy-nominated television movie starring Arthur Hill as John Gunther, Jane Alexander as his wife, and Robby Benson as Johnny.

On August 26, 1986, State's Attorney Arthur A. Marshall Jr. stated that in the hours after Bias's death, Maryland head basketball coach Lefty Driesell told players to remove drugs from Bias's dorm room.