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 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.

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 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.

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

The Falcons then went on to play the New York Giants in a 2011 NFC Wild Card Game at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

In the 1980s, the Falcons wore their white uniforms at home most of the time because of the heat.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

It was announced at the 2009 state of the franchise meeting that the Falcons would wear 1966 throwback uniforms for a couple games during the 2009 season.

The September 25, 2006 home opener, the first home game in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was won by the Saints 23 – 3 against the Atlanta Falcons, who were undefeated in the 2006 season at that time.

In 2007, the Giants became the third NFL franchise to win at least 600 games when they defeated the Atlanta Falcons 31 – 10 on Monday Night Football.

In 2006 Poland's first F-16 Fighting Falcons came to be stationed at the 31st Air Base in Krzesiny in the south-east of the city.

* Jessie Tuggle-former American football linebacker who played his entire career with the Atlanta Falcons ; played American football at Valdosta State University after graduating from Griffin High School

The Port Huron Fighting Falcons of the junior North American Hockey League currently plays at McMorran Place, beginning in 2010.

* Major Everett-Running back in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta Falcons ; played high school ball at New Hebron High School and at Mississippi College.

* Ernest " Bubba " Bean, graduated from Kirbyville High School in 1971 and was a standout running back at Texas A & M University as well as with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Barbary Falcons breed at different times of year than neighboring Peregrine Falcon subspecies, but there are no postzygotic reproduction barriers in place.

The Sknyliv air show disaster occurred on Saturday July 27, 2002, when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed during an aerobatics presentation at Sknyliv airfield near Lviv, Ukraine.

Bright, who usually stayed behind the scenes, publicly criticized Landry after an embarrassing home loss to the Atlanta Falcons in 1987, saying that he was " horrified " at the play-calling and complaining " It doesn't seem like we've got anybody in charge who knows what he's doing, other than Tex ".

Peregrine Falcons and Eurasian Sparrowhawks are natural predators of pigeons that are quite adept at catching and feeding upon this species, as shown by the high losses of racing pigeons to these predators.