The Falcons finished the season with a very disappointing 5 – 11 regular season record.

The Falcons finished the 2001 season with a record of 7-9 and missed the playoffs.

The Falcons finished the 2008 regular season with a record of 11 – 5, and the # 5 seed in the playoffs.

The Falcons finished the season at 10-6, securing the fifth seed after a Week 17 beatdown of Tampa Bay in which the Falcons pulled their starters after leading 42-0 just twenty-three minutes into the game.

In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they usually finished near the bottom of the standings, even though they made the playoffs again in 1932.

The Vikings also finished the regular season with a 12-2 record, winning their first nine games before a loss on Monday Night Football to the Atlanta Falcons.

Dallas was also the defending Super Bowl XII champion, and finished the 1978 regular season with a 12-4 record, and posted playoff victories over the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams.

A switch to Glenn Seton Racing mid-season in 1992 brought improved results and race wins and he finished runner up to his team leader Glenn Seton as their V8 Ford Falcons dominated the 1993 Australian Touring Car Championship.

On the pitch the Falcons reached another European Challenge Cup Quarter-Final going down to Saracens away from home and finished 10th in the Premiership.

Despite this relative success the Falcons finished their worst ever Premiership season with just 23 points ( 4 wins ), only escaping relegation thanks to the inferior points difference of Leeds Carnegie.

In the 2008 – 09 season, the Saints finished eighth on the table and only losing one game at home to Newcastle Falcons.

Although the Steelheads finished with the best record in the WCHL's final season in 2002 – 03, the Falcons eliminated them in the first round of the playoffs.

He finished second among league rookies in scoring, eight points behind Daniel Briere of the Springfield Falcons, and was named to the AHL All-Rookie Team.

The Sugar Bowl finished a string of three football games in four days that started with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl between LSU and Miami ( Florida ) and an NFL game between the Falcons and the Carolina Panthers two days later.

The Falcons played only in the inaugural season of the BAA and finished 4th in the Western Division with a 20 – 40 record, 18½ games out of first place.

For the 2007 season, he finished third on the Falcons with 119 tackles ( 86 solo ) while adding two interceptions and five passes defensed, collared 11 tackles vs. New York Giants ; the 11 stops marked the 60th time in his 12-year NFL career that he collared double-digit tackles in a single-game, tallied 11 tackles, one pass defensed and his first interception as a Falcon vs. San Francisco 49ers, when he picked off Alex Smith.

After England finished 4th in the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup, he saw out his contract at Wasps and moved to the Newcastle Falcons.

In week nine against the Atlanta Falcons, Mitchell caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from McNabb and finished with two catches for 43 yards.

Then Vick led the Falcons 90 yards in 16 plays, and kicker Jay Feely finished the drive with a 22-yard field goal on the last play of the half.

The Wild Card Jaguars, who had barely made the playoffs with a 9-7 record by winning their last 5 games of the season ( including their final one when Atlanta Falcons kicker Morten Andersen missed a last second field goal ), overcame a 12-point deficit and scored on six consecutive possessions to upset the Broncos, who had finished the season with an NFL best 13-3 record and were favored to win by over 14 points.

He finished his Falcons career with 1, 152 receiving yards on 65 receptions.

Atlanta finished with the best record in the NFC at 13-3, but the Falcons were upset by the eventual Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Playoffs.

King played 43 more NHL games from 1993 to 1995 and then finished his career playing for the Baltimore Bandits, Philadelphia Phantoms, Rochester Americans, Providence Bruins, and Springfield Falcons of the AHL and the Michigan K-Wings and Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League.

The first half was a defensive struggle, with the first points coming off of a safety by the Falcons, giving Atlanta a 2-0 lead.

Later in the quarter, Falcons defensive back Ronnie Bradford intercepted a pass from Elway ( that had bounced off Shannon Sharpe ) and returned it to the Broncos 35-yard line.

Immediately after the Broncos got the ball back, Smith broke ahead of Falcons safety Eugene Robinson, caught a pass from Elway, and took off for an 80-yard touchdown reception, giving Denver a 17-3 lead ( the fourth 80 + yard touchdown pass play in Super Bowl history ).

However, Young recovered and led the 49ers on a five game winning streak, capped off by a 56-17 win over the Atlanta Falcons in which Young passed for 399 yards and three touchdowns.

An Extra EA-300 S of the Royal Jordanian Falcons display team taxis for take off.

They progressed even further in the ECC and beat off Montpellier Hérault RC in the quarter-final and saw off Newcastle Falcons in the semi-final which set up a final against Bath.

And during the 2009 season Brown had an 83-yard touchdown return from an interception off of a pass from Chris Redman of the Atlanta Falcons during week twelve and a 60-yard fumble return for touchdown against the New York Giants in week fourteen.

Packers coach Mike Sherman did not challenge the call, a mistake considering replays showed the punted ball bouncing off a Falcons player's left shoulder.

Shortly after the signing of quarterback Daunte Culpepper, Henson was waived by the Lions on November 12 when the team claimed wide receiver Adam Jennings off waivers from the Atlanta Falcons.

In his final season with the Falcons in 2006, Webster played the first eight games, holding off a challenge from Jimmy Williams for the starting job, but then tore a groin muscle in practice.

After several punts the Panthers had the ball deep in their own territory, but Delhomme was picked off by Kevin Mathis at his 32 and Mathis ran in the winning touchdown, a 20 – 14 Falcons overtime win-the Panthers only overtime loss of the season.

The Falcons play their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta, but construction is likely to begin in 2014 on a new stadium with play beginning in the 2017 season.

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season.

In the 1978 season, the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time and won the Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles 14 – 13.

In the strike-shortened 1982 season, the Falcons made the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 30 – 24.

The Falcons ' 1991 season ended in a divisional playoff loss to the Washington Redskins.

In 1998, under recently acquired head coach Dan Reeves, quarterback Chris Chandler and running back Jamal Anderson the " Dirty Bird " Falcons had their greatest season to date.

In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

In 2000, the Falcons suffered through another horrendous season finishing 4-12 and once again missing the playoffs.

After beginning the season at 1 – 3, head coach Dan Reeves and quarterback Michael Vick led the Falcons to an NFL-best eight-game unbeaten streak ( 7 – 0 – 1 ).

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

For the 2007 season, the Falcons were forced to start Joey Harrington at quarterback.

After the tumultuous and disappointing 2007 season, the Falcons made a number of moves, hiring a new General Manager and head coach, drafting a new starting quarterback, and signing a starting running back.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.