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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 ).
The Falcons had already been playing the California teams in the NFL Coastal Division, but the Saints were in the Eastern Conference and now faced with two trips to the West Coast per season.
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.

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* Bobby Petrino — Former head football coach of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
* 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.
Stanley brought a wealth of coaching experience, with stops at SMU, UTEP, Oklahoma State, Navy, and on the professional level with the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and NFL's New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons, mainly as an assistant coach.
Asante Samuel of the Atlanta Falcons, with 4 postseason INT returns for a TD, is the NFL's all-time leader.
The Dome is home to the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, the NCAA Division I Georgia State Panthers of Georgia State University, the annual host ( since 1998 ) to FCS Classic football game between Florida A & M University and another HBCU opponent ( Southern in 2011 and Tennessee State University in prior years ), and the annual host to the Southeastern Conference Football Championship Game, Chick-fil-A Bowl ( formerly known as The Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl and The Peach Bowl ) post-season college football games, and since 2004 the FIRST World Championships.
In, both the NL's transplanted Braves and the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, an expansion team, began to use the facilities.
He subsequently became an announcer for Smoky Mountain Wrestling and the NFL's Atlanta Falcons ( the second time he was with the Falcons as an announcer ).
The NFL's Atlanta Falcons came close, but lost to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII during the 1998 season.
Mora served as the head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons from 2004 to 2006 and Seattle Seahawks in 2009.
" This non-winning season continued one of the NFL's strangest records-the Falcons had never had back-to-back winning seasons in the history of the franchise, a 40-year statistical oddity that no other modern professional team has matched.
In eleven professional seasons he led the Falcons in tackles nine times, went to five Pro Bowls ( one in 1972 after two knee surgeries ), was named All-Pro twice and was chosen for the NFL's " All-Decade Team " for the 1960s.
This category is for everyone who had ever played for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
Henning served as the head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons ( 1983 – 1986 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 1989 – 1991 ).

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The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).
The Saints, under rookie head coach Sean Payton and new quarterback Drew Brees, defeated the Falcons 23-3, and would go on to notch the second playoff win in franchise history.
One of the significant players on the 1992 Packers team was second year quarterback Brett Favre, who spent his rookie season playing for the Atlanta Falcons.
The Broncos defeated the Falcons by the score of 34 – 19, winning their second consecutive Super Bowl.
The Falcons defense ranked second in the league in fewest rushing yards allowed ( 1, 203 ), eighth in fewest total yards ( 5, 009 ), and fourth in fewest points.
The team also won its second straight Division 6 state title in 2009 with a 24-21 victory over the Monroe St. Mary's Catholic Central Falcons.
* January 31 – Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos win their second Super Bowl in a row, defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34 – 19 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida.
" symbol with his arms after scoring his second touchdown against the Atlanta Falcons.
His first pick came in only his second game, as he intercepted Atlanta Falcons quarterback Doug Johnson.
Their second win, in their homecoming game, was against a better, ranked team: the Bowling Green State University Falcons.
The second club which was a break away unit of the Torpedo's are Longford Falcons.
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.
He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and also played for the Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL.
His 97-yard return of a fumble during a game against the Atlanta Falcons on October 2, 1966 is still the second longest in Cowboys history.
The Falcons were the second team that season to fold, following the Augusta Lynx.
She and Atlanta Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon are second cousins.
The contract is estimated to be worth £ 325, 000 a year, which would make him the second highest wage earner in the English Premiership ( Newcastle Falcons prop Carl Hayman tops the list ) He made his Worcester debut in a pre-season friendly against Ulster on 27 August 2008.
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.

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