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

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 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 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, who had made two previous unsuccessful bids to buy an NHL team, purchase the Falcons.

In the playoffs, the Vikings rolled past the Arizona Cardinals 41 – 21, and came into the Metrodome heavily favored for their NFC title showdown with the Atlanta Falcons, who had gone 14 – 2 in the regular season.

The Atlanta Falcons had defeated the Packers in a 1991 game in which Favre did not participate.

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.

The Falcons offense gained a total of 337 yards, were not penalized once, and had driven inside Denver's 30-yard line 7 times.

Tampa Bay did not win their first game until the 13th week of their second season, starting with a record of 0 – 26 ( though the Bucs had beaten the Atlanta Falcons 17 – 3 in a 1976 pre-season game before their first regular season ).

In 1947, they had lost the Detroit Gems of the NBL, who moved to become the Minneapolis Lakers ( now the Los Angeles Lakers ), and the Detroit Falcons of the BAA, which folded.

Air Force Falcons football has had the best showing of the three, winning the trophy 18 of its 34 years.

The Crusader football team had a 41-game losing streak in effect from 2002 until September 30, 2006, when they defeated the Manchester Regional High School Falcons, 33-14, snapping the four-year-long losing streak.

It had seemed like a good pre-season matchup since the Falcons had played in the previous season's Super Bowl and the 49ers coming into the ' 99 season had posted 16 consecutive 10-win seasons ).

The Phantoms had a relatively short life, being replaced with new F-16A Fighting Falcons, as part of " Operation Ready Switch ".

Interior door hardware and steering columns were shared with the Falcons and the Aussie versions also had their own instrument clusters, optional air conditioning and much larger bumpers.

The Falcons women's basketball teams had recent postseason success.

Against the Atlanta Falcons a week later Owens had a 17-yard kick return and one catch for 26 yards.

After the Cowboys defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 38-28, owner Jerry Jones revealed that Owens had injured a tendon on one of his fingers ( the same finger that he broke in an unrelated incident a few weeks earlier ).

For the 1996 / 7 season the new name of Newcastle Falcons and new black-and-white colours were adopted, after local businessman Sir John Hall had taken control and attempted to create a sporting club in Newcastle that would emulate the success of the Barcelona model.

The Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins were already set to start play for the 1966 season before the merger was announced.

His distinctive voice was already well known in the Jacksonville area due to his long association with both the University of Georgia Bulldogs and the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons.

In any case, the radiation of the entire living diversity of hierofalcons seems to have taken place in the Eemian interglacial at the start of the Late Pleistocene, a mere 130, 000-115, 000 years ago ; the Lanner Falcons would thus represent the lineage that became isolated in sub-Saharan Africa at some time during the Riss glaciation ( 200, 000 to 130, 000 years ago ) already.

In 1996, already at 36, Krnčević returned to his country and played one final season with the Gippsland Falcons.

Over the last four years the Falcons, under General Manager Thomas Dimitroff, Head Coach Mike Smith, and Quarterback Matt Ryan, have been one of the best franchises in the NFC.

In recent years, the PA side has been closed to climbing during the nesting season for Peregrine Falcons, this has resulted in overgrowth of trails and climbing routes, providing an experience closer to the natural state than is found at more popular climbing destinations.

Peregrine Falcons may harass them while defending their own young and themselves, but have not been known to kill adults.

NZ assembly ceased in the early 1990s after which all Falcons sold in New Zealand have been fully imported from Australia.

The Falcons have been the biggest and most successful club in northern England, with one Premiership and four domestic cups to their name.

Canna is renowned for its birdlife, including sea eagles, golden eagles and puffins. Recently, Perigrine Falcons and Merlins have been sighted also.

Since the release of the XA model in 1972, Falcons have been fully Australian designed.

* October 16, 2005 – Atlanta Falcons ( 34 ) vs. New Orleans Saints ( 31 ) – Attendance: 65, 562 ( attendance set the facility record for a sporting event at the time ; it has been subsequently surpassed by two Alamo Bowl events )

Saker Falcons are known to be very susceptible to avian influenza, individuals having been found infected with highly pathogenic H5N1 ( in Saudi Arabia ) and H7N7 ( in Italy ) strains.

Hyundai and Kia have also been working with new FR based vehicles in the US, the Genesis Coupe and Sedan, the Equiss, and the new Kia Quoris Ford on the other hand seems to be moving away from FR based vehicles with the discontinuation of the Panther Platform, and soon the E-series the Mustang and Aussie Falcon are the only remaining FR vehicles in their lineup, at that the Falcons future is unclear.

The team was preceded in Jamestown by the Jamestown Falcons ( initially known as the Jamestown Jaguars ) and the Jamestown Expos ; a Jamestown franchise has been in the New York-Penn League since its inception as the PONY League in 1939.

In April 2007 playing away against Newcastle Falcons in the Guinness Premiership, Tindall broke his leg in a tackle on Toby Flood and this forced him to miss the rest of the season, including the Guinness Premiership final, where his leadership would have been critical in a young backline.

Brock and Bond were drivers for the Holden Dealer Team ( HDT ), which had been formed earlier in the year to take the fight to the factory Ford Special Vehicles division that was turning out the ever-evolving, race-ready GT-HO Falcons.

Feely has also been a member of the Tampa Bay Storm, Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets.

The club had just been bought out by Sir John Hall in the leadup to the game turning professional, they became the Falcons of today.

Eastern Virginia has long been a habitat for endangered birds, notably eagles and Peregrine Falcons.

One couple of Peregrine Falcons has been nesting inside the 32nd floor recess since 1984.

Hartwell has also been a member of the Atlanta Falcons, Cincinnati Bengals and Oakland Raiders.

The exhibit includes a reproduction of the Millennium Falcons cockpit, which features a four-and-a-half minute experience about real-world space exploration, particularly the unmanned exploration of the farther planets of our solar system, and the hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered.

In recent years the original song has also been adopted by supporters of Newcastle Falcons rugby club.

He had been with the group for about six months in the mid 1960s, as well as been a member of The Falcons, The Contours and 100 Proof ( Aged In Soul ).