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

The Falcons finished off the season with a team-record 23 rushing touchdowns and a franchise-best eight games with 30 or more

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.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

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.

traded the team's first overall selection in the 2001 NFL Draft to the Atlanta Falcons for the first round selection ( fifth overall ) and third-round selection in the same draft.

Suwanee was the practicing home of the Atlanta Falcons football team from 1979 to 2001 and was voted among the Top 10 Best Places to Live by Money in 2007.

The LaTrobe City Stadium was home to the Gippsland Falcons, which competed in the National Soccer League until they disbanded in 2001, an offshoot club competes as the Falcons 2000 Gippsland Soccer League along with Fortuna 60 and Morwell Pegasus.

McAllister threw a touchdown pass on December 9, 2001 vs. the Atlanta Falcons.

He left after his sophomore year to enter the NFL and was drafted first overall by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 NFL Draft.

Hall sold the Falcons for a ' nominal ' sum in 1999 to current owner Dave Thompson and since then Newcastle have won two Powergen Cups: in 2001 the Falcons beat Harlequins F. C.

The Steelheads reached the WCHL finals in 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02, but were defeated by the San Diego Gulls and Fresno Falcons, respectively.

He was a member of the Pro Football Weekly All-Rookie Team with the Falcons in 2001 and was a Pro Bowl alternate with the Giants in 2005.

Although Jake Arians was expected to be the Falcons ' placekicker during the 2001 season, it was Feely that won the job.

As a rookie with the Falcons in 2001, Feely converted 29 of 37 field goal attempts ( 78. 4 %) and all 28 extra point attempts.

He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft.

Crumpler was drafted by the Falcons in the second round ( 35th overall ) of the 2001 NFL Draft.

Anderson played eight seasons with the Falcons, amassing 5, 336 rushing yards, 156 receptions for 1, 645 yards, and 41 touchdowns before he suffered what became a career-ending tear of his ACL in 2001.

In 2001 he was an important member of Falcons ’ Powergen Cup winning side at Twickenham, a feat he repeated in 2004 as captain.

Sanchez has two sons and one daughter: Nikko Gonzalez, born on February 12, 2001 from a previous relationship with Atlanta Falcons tight end, Tony Gonzalez ; Evan Whitesell, born on June 22, 2006 ; and Ella Whitesell, born on January 15, 2008.

* Devin Bush, professional NFL FS for the Atlanta Falcons ( 1995 – 1998 ), the St. Louis Rams ( 1999 – 2000 ) and the Cleveland Browns ( 2001 – 2002 ).

Their original NFC West competitors — the Atlanta Falcons, the Los Angeles ( and later, St. Louis ) Rams, and the San Francisco 49ers — would also remain in the division through 2001 ( with the Carolina Panthers joining in the 1995 NFL season ), leading to the development of long standing rivalries.

Caught his only touchdown of his career on December 30, 2001 when the Falcons were playing at the Miami Dolphins.