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Isn’t it high time the Falcons hushed the yapping Saints?

3:47 pm November 28, 2012, by Mark Bradley

"How about I hit you in the face, lilttle brother? (AP photo)

Jimmy Graham to Thomas DeCoud: "Hold still while I smack you right in the face, non-rival." (AP photo)

Super Bowl XLVII will be in New Orleans, but nothing says the Atlanta Falcons have to beat the Saints to qualify. Still, it would be nice for the Falcons’ ego if, just once, they could exit a game against their nemesis without having to hear the crowing that emanates from the other side.

The Saints are reviled throughout the NFL, but nowhere are they as hated as within the red-brick building at 4400 Falcon Parkway, Flowery Branch. In December 2010 some Saints defenders posed on the Falcons’ logo after winning at the Georgia Dome. Last December the Saints allowed Drew Brees to keep throwing at the end of a rout to break Dan Marino’s yardage record.

The Falcons weren’t happy, and many among them wanted to draw the Saints in Round 1 of the playoffs. (They got the Giants instead. And lost 24-2.) Said linebacker Curtis Lofton: “I kind of hoped we’d go back to New Orleans, especially with the way they did us.”

Today Lofton is a Saint, and this week he told Atlanta reporters the Saints don’t view this longstanding series as a rivalry but as “a divisional game.” And maybe they do. Is it really a rivalry when one side wins all the time?

Since Sean Payton, the coach now sitting out a year’s suspension, arrived in New Orleans in 2006, the Saints have beaten the Falcons 11 times in 13 meetings. Since Mike Smith became the Falcons’ coach in 2008, nearly one-third of his regular-season losses – seven of the 22, to be exact – have come against the Saints.

Being a coach, Smith wants to win every quarter of every game, but he wouldn’t be human if he didn’t see Thursday night’s game against the Saints as a chance to get something right after getting so many things. Almost every tack Smitty has taken against New Orleans has gone bust, and not all of them have been poor choices.

Twice he tried punting late while behind, and twice he saw Drew Brees run out the clock. Last year he tried going for it on fourth-and-inches in overtime and saw Michael Turner halted. Earlier this month Smith didn’t go for two when trailing by six points, didn’t for a touchdown on fourth-and-goal with his team trailing by four, and finally he saw the Falcons fail three times inside the Saints’ 2.

All losses to the Saints are galling, but for the Falcons the most recent one was especially egregious. It ended any thought of an undefeated season, and it came against a Saints’ team that was, on the record, nothing special. And afterward they had to hear linebacker Scott Shanle describe them as “classless” – as we know, the team that paid bounties to injure opponents is renowned for its geniality – because Sean Weatherspoon and Jonathan Babineaux were taunting Lofton in warmups.

(Then again, Roddy White wasn’t exactly the essence of grace afterward, saying the Falcons “gave” the Saints the game.)

Shanle also described the Falcons as the Saints’ “little brothers,” and here again we note: In football as in journalism, truth is the ultimate defense. The Saints have ruled this (non-)rivalry; the Falcons haven’t come close to holding up their end. But another encounter brings another chance, and it would behoove the Falcons to seize this one.

Not because their ultimate fate rides on this game. They’ll be in the playoffs, and the Saints probably won’t. But a team that has visions of a championship needs to believe it can climb every mountain, not just selected ones. It has long been my belief that the loss to New Orleans two days after Christmas in 2010 was a precursor to the epic playoff flop against the Packers three weeks later, when the top-seeded Falcons were beaten 48-21. Both the Saints, who were defending champs, and the Packers, who would become champs, brought championship intensity to the Dome. The home side brought something less.

Eleven games in, the 2012 season bears more than a passing resemblance to 2010. As Chase Stuart of Football Perspective wrote on the New York Times’ Fifth Down blog this week: “In 2010, Atlanta raced to a 10-2 record on the strength of an improbable 7-1 record in games decided by seven or fewer points … This season, Atlanta has raced to a 10-1 record on the strength of an improbable 7-1 record in games decided by seven or fewer points.”

Now as then, a lot of folks are waiting for the Falcons to flop. The 2010 team obliged. This one might not. These Falcons have taken some significant steps — beating Denver and Dallas in prime time, ending 24 years of futility in Philadelphia, dousing the hot Buccaneers on Sunday — and they can take another Thursday night. They can stomp the Saints. They can stop being the little brother. They can make another deposit in their bank of self-esteem.

By Mark Bradley

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Herschel Talker

November 28th, 2012
3:56 pm

MB:

It’s time we sent the Saints packing out of the playoffs!

HT

Jeffrey

November 28th, 2012
4:09 pm

We need to beat em and keep em home in January. Go falcons.

Jamie

November 28th, 2012
4:09 pm

Lets punch them in the mouth!! I, along with the rest of the NFL, am sick of the Saints and their bromance with the networks! Every time you turn on a pre-game, post game or the NFL Network, you see BFF-less Drew Brees without his man crush Sean Payton. Makes me wanna puke!

david

November 28th, 2012
4:12 pm

Havent seen you on the UGA boards lately HT– no dirt to throw on UGA now?

alpha male

November 28th, 2012
4:13 pm

the dream week starts with Thursday nites Saints beatdown of the Atlanta Fraudcans…NO 33 ATLidiots 20…followed by a Murray Meltdown in the downtown dump known as the Georgia Dome…Bama 48 UGA 23…

1lovefalcons20

November 28th, 2012
4:14 pm

come on falcons send the aints packing back to their little stinkin small market city with the ugliest dome in america and the oldest…make a stand falcons!!!!!!!!beat america,s most hated team the aints

Samuel

November 28th, 2012
4:14 pm

You gotta step your game up. Go Birds!

alpha male

November 28th, 2012
4:19 pm

The Saints aren’t reviled throughout the NFL…actually the majority of NFL fans are smart enough to know that this bounty bs goes on at all levels of football and Goodell went ape crap with power in this case…it was a PR stunt…a bounty scandal would probably help the Falcons brand…lord knows, the brand isn’t respected anyways…

I'm Gumby, dammit

November 28th, 2012
4:19 pm

I don’t believe it. I posted before Seen on a Falcon’s blog.

Now lets shut him up once and for all.

alpha male

November 28th, 2012
4:24 pm

if not for the Jax Jaguars, the Falcons would be the NFL’s least influential brand…outside the perimeter, no one cares about the birds…north Georgia probaly has as many Titans fans as Falcons fans…no one north of Cartersville gives a rats rear about tha dirty birds…

Stuart

November 28th, 2012
4:26 pm

Maybe the Falcons can sign that chick in the Verizon commercial who inadvertently knocks the food into Brees with her Clay Matthews imitation.
Besides she is kind of cute.

B

November 28th, 2012
4:27 pm

Yes, yes and more yes.

And if I see one more Drew Brees commercial, so help me…

Roddy

November 28th, 2012
4:28 pm

Yeah MB! They needs to shut they mouth. See ya’llz at the waffle house! Rise up.

Name Changed to Avoid Moderation

November 28th, 2012
4:30 pm

@ Gumby – That’s because he is still in his after school program. Then he get’s home for milk and cookies…then he gets on the blogs.

Let get after the Saints quickly, put our cleats on their throat and never let up!

mister.earl

November 28th, 2012
4:31 pm

You gotta be a winner to be reviled. People only pity teams that are consistent losers.

Over the last 11 games, the Falcons record vs the despised New Orleans Saints is not pretty. That is a less than stellar stretch dating back to 2007. No matter what happens on Thursday, without a win in the NFL Playoffs, the Falcons season is another disaster.

That is a stone cold fact.

Archie

November 28th, 2012
4:33 pm

I cannot possibly be any more sick and tired of the stupid argument that winning so many close games is somehow a sign that a team is overrated. What would these people rather have… a 13-3 team that is 7-1 in close games, or a 13-3 team that is 0-3 in close games? Sure, some playoff games end in a blowout, the Falcons have been on the business end of a few of those. However, 90% of playoff games are decided by 7 points or less, so which team would you rather put your faith in… the one that wins those games 75% of the time, or the one that wins those games 25% of the time?

The truth is, being 7-1 in close games in 2010 had nothing to do with losing to the Packers and everything to do with the Packers just being an awesome team that got healthy and caught fire at the right time. The Falcons were losing that game regardless of their own record.

Macon Mike

November 28th, 2012
4:36 pm

series: 46-41 in favor of Falcons…23-20 Atlanta at home…

Herschel Talker

November 28th, 2012
4:40 pm

david,

Richt had a good year. Let’s see how he does against Bama this weekend and when LSU rolls onto the schedule next year.

HT

Damage Inc.

November 28th, 2012
4:40 pm

alpha male huh? compensating for something?

MFranklin

November 28th, 2012
4:46 pm

“Isn’t it high time the Falcons hushed the yapping S-aints?”

This is my 16th attempt to post a comment on this Union of Soviet Socialist Atlanta Newspaper website. I answered the above headline quote saying yes and that our (forbidden name) opponent had produced material for (forbidden name home team) this time around. I also suggested turning said unnamed opponent into something red and muddy.

Forgive me oh lord for I have sinned.

To: Mr. Cox at the AJC,

I promised not to bother you again regarding the way your site continually censors legit comments… but I sure wish you would do something to fix this.

who dat black is back

November 28th, 2012
4:47 pm

I will reserve my comments for the subsequent blog about the Falcons demise. There will always be one at the end of their season, because it never ends with a Super Bowl win.

Terry

November 28th, 2012
4:48 pm

Easy, falcons 31-20

Jeff H

November 28th, 2012
4:51 pm

Anything to shut up the bagheads.
Thank you, Macon Mike. I knew New Orleans could not ‘rule’ the Falcons. 30 years of a team so bad their fans were ashamed to show their faces does not equal ruling anyone at all.
But you give them a few cheating coaches and players with no sportsmanship, and they cheat their way to a trophy, and suddenly they are world beaters.
Go home, bagheads, and shut your traps.

extremus

November 28th, 2012
4:52 pm

Whether it’s a rivalry or not, the law of averages means things eventually even out over time. Granted, the Saints have enjoyed a huge run of success (albeit in mostly tightly contested games) against the Falcons in recent years, but at some point the pendulum will inevitably swing in the other direction. Thursday night would be as good a time as any. While I fully expect another grind-it-out, closely fought matchup, it sure would be nice to see the Falcons put a 49ers-style beatdown on the Saints, potentially en route to securing the NFC South title should the Bucs lose Sunday. And hey, if we get the chance we owe it to them to run up the score.

Falconfan93

November 28th, 2012
4:56 pm

The NFL… picking on the Saints? Gimme a break. They have been the darlings of the league. Drew Brees is on every NFL brand commercial(Visa, Verizon, shop.NFL.com). The reason the bounty issue became such a big issue with the NFL was that the commish caught them once. Told them to cut it out, because they were the feel good story the NFL needed after Katrina. They didn’t. So he came down hard. Can you blame him?

It is going to be a throw back game. 1st 1000 Saints fans get a paper bag for their head.

tom

November 28th, 2012
4:59 pm

Breese the Manning Bros and our own Matty Ice are only as great as the protection they receive. Falcons play like they did against the Bucs and they lose big. Defense was horrible and the where was the long ball threat most of the game. One time to Jones and that was it. They need to win one with a large gap in the score.

dubshakk

November 28th, 2012
4:59 pm

As a Saints fan, this article & the comments make me chuckle. If you don’t want the Saints talking trash, win the game. If you don’t want passing records set on your team in primetime, stop Brees from throwing 4th quarter TD passes. If you don’t want your overtime possesion to end, make a yard on 4th and 1. If you don’t want Remi Ayodele pissing on the dirty bird, then…..well, I won’t go there, but you get the point. Be a professional, and beat the other team on the field, then the yapping will stop. Until then, the Saints can yap all they want. WHO DAT!!!

Roark

November 28th, 2012
5:01 pm

hope this gets posted on the ATL bulletin-board!

stomp the sAints

November 28th, 2012
5:04 pm

Enter your comments here

MFranklin

November 28th, 2012
5:04 pm

History is absolutely clear; the S.aints fans did indeed wear bags over their heads because their team had more vacuum power than a Hoover. They also produced ‘I Hate The Falcons’ tee shirts for a while as well. They were gold with black lettering. Why? Because when they were on the verge of their first playoff spot, we beat them and sent them to an early off season.

The S.aints and F.alcons have been huge rivals since they were both in the NFC West and both subject to humiliation by the Rams and 49ers year after year. The major issue was that we (F.alcons) were always just one level up from them in this NFL dungeon. But… instead of understanding the brotherhood of suffering both teams endured during these years, the S.aints and their fans turned a grudging hate against us… that endures to this day.

**Wondering if this will make it past the KGB censors…

stomp the sAints

November 28th, 2012
5:07 pm

It’s time to wrap up the NFC South on Thursday Night Football.

oldmike

November 28th, 2012
5:08 pm

Seems like the perfect time to end the Saints season. Brees looked pretty ordinary against the niners. We looked poised and confident against the Bucs. I’ll take 7-1 in 7 point games any day of the week. Smitty is a conservative coach at heart. Let’s hope beget one giant gorilla of our backs Thursday and then stuff the Giants to boot.

Heat Check

November 28th, 2012
5:10 pm

extremus,

I will let you in on a little secret….

There are 2 main reasons the 49ers whip the Saints and the Falcons possess neither quality. The 49ers pass rush this season is hands down the best in the NFL and they seldom rush more than 4 to get the QB. The next is they run the ball. You, I, and anyone watching football knows the 49ers are going to do but can’t stop it.

The game Thursday to me is a toss up when you factor in the short week, but with Samuel out or playing with 1 arm it’s gonna be a long night for that Falcons defense. I think the Saints eeek 1 out in similar fashion to the first 35-27, with Brees having a 350 yd plus night.

sidslid

November 28th, 2012
5:11 pm

That defense is abysmal. With Julio back at what looks like full strength, we should easily put up 40.

sidslid

November 28th, 2012
5:13 pm

Enter your comments here

Heat Check

November 28th, 2012
5:13 pm

oldmike,

the 49ers don’t have much in common with the Falcons. I don’t know how drawing on that game has anything to do with tomorrow night

BigHittas

November 28th, 2012
5:19 pm

Please bomb the Saints to death. And make sure to throw the ball just beyond that slow azz Lofton’s coverage a bunch? And if we’re up with 2-3 minutes left, please run it up instead of being nice?

NuclearJim

November 28th, 2012
5:20 pm

Uh, they only wore the bags over their WOMEN’S heads in NOLA – for obvious reason unrelated to football and the NFL. If you have ever been to NOLA and seen their washed-out haggard looking homely fem’s, you know exactly what I mean! NASTY!

PMC

November 28th, 2012
5:20 pm

The “big brothers” are a 5-6 grease fire, and Steve Gleason has had more relevance in the last 5 years than Scott Shanle.

The Saints aren’t even relevant this year even if they sweep the Falcons, they aren’t making the playoffs.

The reason the Falcons have been poor against the Saints is one of matchups. Stephen Nicholas is an average player, he can’t matchup with Jimmy Graham period. The Falcons have had one of the poorer pass defenses in the league, partially because outside of Spoon the linebackers aren’t very talented or in Mike Pete’s case in thier prime.

The Falcons have also been generally bad at rushing the passer, Drew Brees does really well when he’s not pressured.

Prior to last season the Falcons lacked enough offensive playmakers to score with the Saints given our porous pass defense.

Also, this is the first year the Falcons have employed an NFL caliber defensive coordinator

I can only assume Thomas Dimitroff will continue filling holes, but Sean Payton with Drew Brees has been one of the better offensive combos in the league since 2006 and we haven’t exactly hit it out of the park with all our personnel moves to counter that.

It’s generally the matchups that have been the difference. Every game for the most part has come down to the end.

The Saints defense is hot freaking garbage, though despite this “not being a rivalry” they generally save thier best play for Falcons games.

PMC

November 28th, 2012
5:23 pm

Everyone in our division has worn bags over thier heads.

We all hate each other. Let’s get over it.

I’d love to hear a little more passion about winning these games coming from the front office here, at least I’d like to know that they are hurt by thier piss poor record against them.

BigHittas

November 28th, 2012
5:23 pm

and BTW, you HAVE to pressure Brees. You can’t allow him to stay in the pocket and pick you to death, OK D????

Steve

November 28th, 2012
5:23 pm

The Braves just got Upton, nice!

JustCS3

November 28th, 2012
5:25 pm

The overall record is 46-41, with Atlanta leading by 5 games. So, despite winning 11 of the last 13, the Aints are still just trying to play catch up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcons%E2%80%93Saints_rivalry

Kick who dat's butt

November 28th, 2012
5:32 pm

Looks like who dat alpha male is trying to peek out like a groundhog since aints have been in hibernation all season…. either way… the sphincter muslce will not be seen on Friday morning…. makes me feel so good that the cry baby has not been seen the entire season… only an occasional wimper from the crying rodent.

dubshakk

November 28th, 2012
5:32 pm

Nice rational post by PMC. It’s funny how we hate divisional opponents in NFL and wish their demise, but we will root for other SEC teams in college football if our guys can’t get it done. That being said, I hope UGA beats Bama, so I don’t have to root for Bama in the NC.

MardiBug

November 28th, 2012
5:35 pm

@dubshakk – I couldn’t agree with you more.

All the Falcons fans ever do is whine about New Orleans. All the Saints have done is beat them.

WHO DAT BABY!!!

Ted M

November 28th, 2012
5:37 pm

Keep the ball out of Michael Turner’s hands.

Billyho55

November 28th, 2012
5:39 pm

WELL GUYS…THE FREAKIN JAGS CLAIMED BABIN OFF WAIVERS! GOES TO AN EVEN WORSE TEAM THAN IGGLES! JUST COMICAL!

Billyho55

November 28th, 2012
5:40 pm

Steve,
THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!

NotConvinced

November 28th, 2012
5:45 pm

Facts is Facts….
Im not convinced at all about the 2012 Falcons.
Win a playoff game first!!!

NotConvinced

November 28th, 2012
5:46 pm

And no Im not a Saints fan either, but Ryan is just not explosive enough to compete in BIG games where it matters!

1990_Champs_GT

November 28th, 2012
5:48 pm

The biggest regular season games left are the Saints and Giants. Both are at home. Both are teams that have a beat down coming from us.

If we don’t beat both of them, I’m afraid the bubble will burst again in the playoffs.

It’s time to man up, not play down to our competition!

1990_Champs_GT

November 28th, 2012
5:53 pm

Ryan isn’t the problem (other than the Cards game). If they flounder and just back into the playoffs, it’s Smitty’s fault.

If they lose the playoff game, all fingers will be pointed at the HC.

And if that happens, I predict a certain Super Bowl winning coach who looks like Sgt. Slaughter will be at the helm in 2013.

1990_Champs_GT

November 28th, 2012
5:54 pm

“Listen up, you MAGGOTS!”

Johnny Vaught

November 28th, 2012
6:05 pm

One of the things that is very obvious about you Georgia peckerwoods and homer writers is that you can dish it out, but can’t take it. Imagine UT players standing on the Big G in Sanford Stadium once when they won. Of course the Bullfrogs can be completely classless – fans are worse than players – and it’s perfectly OK. And just think, you beat a team without its head coach and during a down year – even it was trouble of their own making – and you can go beat your chests. Falcons will be somewhere for the next Super Bowl – it won’t be in New Orleans …

Carzo

November 28th, 2012
6:18 pm

A little Atlanta pass rush and no Michael Turner carries and the Falcons can handle the Saints

david

November 28th, 2012
6:37 pm

Fair enough HT–

take it from me.

November 28th, 2012
6:47 pm

If the Falcons let Brees stay in the pocket,and make trows to Graham & co with ease and no rush,it will be a long night,and loss #2.

stomp the sAints

November 28th, 2012
7:10 pm

Falcons 62
sAints 7

techmule

November 28th, 2012
7:13 pm

I wish you all could hush them saint”s Fans and their football team.But we haven”t got the players to stay up with them.This game is number 2 in the lost colum again.They have what we don”t and thats drew bress.We have no qb. and dang sure have no deffense.Where is the pass rushers at? 55 and what the heck is that little men you call a pass rusher that runs everywhere but where he is suppose 2 and other words (71) he and the rest ot the entire team can’t and want catch up with bress thursday night and no other QB this year.You sports writers in georgia run your mouths like the players do.we are going to do this we going to do that and comes back to bite you .We all here in Falcon land wants this bad too.but when you and the players go running that big ole trap we are bound to lose as usual again.Then come up the reason we lost it.(if we did this or if we did that) same ole same ole CRAP.Thats the reason we have no respect from any one out side of georgia no love and there right.Loser’losers losers

techmule

November 28th, 2012
7:17 pm

Losers again’ num 2 coming up

techmule

November 28th, 2012
7:20 pm

Can”t never could and thats spells out A T L A N A T A – F A L C O N S

Great Falconi

November 28th, 2012
7:22 pm

The fact of the matter is that the Falcons and Saints came into the league around the same time, we’re the only teams in the South, sucked for many, many years, and will always be rivals. Georgia-Florida was a rivalry when the Dawgs owned the Gators in the ’70s and ’80s, just as it was a rivalry when the Gators owned the Dawgs in the ’90s and ’00s. It’s about the fans and tradition. We hate them and they hate us.

Let’s give them a reason to hate us more tomorrow night, Falcons.

techmule

November 28th, 2012
7:35 pm

Where is the Blitzs we saw in the first 2 games of the season that made us look like a Pro team.YOu have gone away from it and we are lucky enough to be 10 -1.Com”n man bring it back.Pressure drew in throwing some incompletions and some interception make them middle LB earn their $ in this game or get em outta there one and get some people off the streets that are unemployed and let them so you how to earn $.

bigdaddywags

November 28th, 2012
7:38 pm

Falcon fans continually attempt to berate the City of New Orleans, and the Mercedes Benz Super Dome. Here’s your chance Falcon fans. Why will New Orleans be hosting the Super Bowl for the 10th time (more than any other city), and Atlanta has only hosted the game twice? My answer – Atlanta has absolutely nothing to offer to its guest. American Express’ Travel & Leisure Magazine pronounced the people of New Orleans to have the friendliest people in all major tourist destinations in the U.S. Do you think, for one moment, that Mercedes Benz would place their name on a structure that wasn’t beautiful, like their cars? The Mercedes Benz Superdome is the Taj Mahal, when compared to the lowly Georgia Dome. I’ve seen hundred of cars streaming from Atlanta, to come to the Essence Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, in New Orleans. It’s obvious that folks from Atlanta love to come to New Orleans to check out those beautiful Creole ladies, and enjoy great music. If Motley Crew hadn’t memorialized Tattletales in “Girls, Girls, Girls”, Atlanta would be devoid of any notoriety!

dave

November 28th, 2012
8:02 pm

just win baby win

true facts

November 28th, 2012
8:04 pm

Falcons and Dogs, Braves are regular season teams, you may not like the Saints but they do have a ring, and won it their first time out, now what did Falcons do their first time in the Super Bowl? dogs, falcons get ready for the let down we all no it is comming.

Mark Bradley should be trashing the Falcons and Dogs for not wining anything and set the standards high, but he defend a bunch of regular season winners shows what a loser he is.

DawgNole

November 28th, 2012
8:06 pm

Bradley: “Ten games in, the 2012 season bears more than a passing resemblance to 2010.”
_______________

We’re 10-1. How can we be only “ten games in”?

Buzz2011

November 28th, 2012
8:22 pm

Indeed, perhaps time for Bama to hush your “yapping Dawgs”..

Peter Crawford

November 28th, 2012
8:35 pm

Is this still a rivalry? Yes The Saints have won 11 out of the last 13 games against Atlanta, but Atlanta still leads the series by 5 games, unless I am mistaken. In reality New Orleans has been playing catch up for the past 6 years. So the question becomes was it a rivalry when Atlanta owned them?
Thursday night’s game needs to be a statement, I think saying that Atlanta ready to make a Super Bowl run.

Bud

November 28th, 2012
9:02 pm

Stick it to the Falcons. The football team resides in Loserville after all.

kc

November 28th, 2012
9:05 pm

Great article Mark. I agree 100% with everything you said.

intellibird

November 28th, 2012
9:11 pm

Saints and all of their bad sports deserve to lose 70 to nothing. But their cheatin buts will probably score 24 points, so I’m guessing 55-24.

God bless us.

Alpha Male

November 28th, 2012
9:49 pm

I am a loser like Saints sinking franchise. All I have to harp on is the Katrina pity bowl win when we cheated by listening in on play calls, paying off refs and bounty hits. NO has become sin city and God is speaking.

Hurst

November 28th, 2012
10:11 pm

Way to go guys. You egged the Saints bus on the airport tarmac.
http://www.wwl.com/Saints-bus-egged-at-Atlanta-airport/14895763
By Saturday night, all of you followers of Georgia football teams that wear red and black will have all of the egg on your faces you can handle.

Hurst

November 28th, 2012
10:13 pm

Way to go guys. You egged the Saints bus on the airport tarmac.

By Saturday night, all of you followers of Georgia football teams that wear red and black will have all of the egg on your faces you can handle.

mister.earl

November 28th, 2012
10:52 pm

Stay Classy at The Airport

@JimmyGraham: Bus just got egged after landing in ATL by the ramp workers. Classy! “RISE Up” smh

Linebacker Will Herring also confirmed the incident:

@wherring54 First time my bus has been egged by opposing fans! Tomorrow should be fun!! #WhoDatNation

Not all of the Saints were put off by the incident. Wide receiver Joseph Morgan seemed to have fun with it:

@jmthegreat How do eggs make people mad? Cool and hilarious prank #childhood #memories

cdog

November 28th, 2012
11:08 pm

mark, great job!orlando ledbetter shouldn:t cover the falcons. he is terrible.you bring electricity to your articles.ledbetter shouldn:t cover sports period.i can feel the ejlectricity already.falcons will win 35-20. 11-1 south division champs.great job mark.

anthony

November 28th, 2012
11:33 pm

alpha male, if you love the saints like you say you do, then get on the plane and go back to saint ville. And I live above Cartersville where there are plenty of Falcon fans. We don’t need you here.

voodoopriest

November 28th, 2012
11:53 pm

The majority of individuals in metro Atlanta are not fans of the Falcons. It is because of this energy, the Saints will win.

voodoopriest

November 28th, 2012
11:57 pm

Atlanta is a Major League Baseball city. That’s the Falcons problem.

voodoopriest

November 29th, 2012
12:07 am

Forbes list Saints franchise as more valuable than Falcons franchise.

diamonddaveincali

November 29th, 2012
12:26 am

Tell me this: All of the NO Aint’s front office brass, coaches, the GM all served their suspensions with Payton still serving his. They did not put up much of a fight. Brian Williams is out of the league. And why are the players not serving their suspensions? I know there are players unions etc, but the brass have admitted guilt and are serving their pennance. Can anybody tell me what is wrong with this picture?

VILMA, SMITH, HARGROVE, and FU FAJITA all should be sitting at home. That is BS, Vilma is a thug.

USAF92

November 29th, 2012
12:44 am

I’m all for Spoon making a lawn dart out of Drew Brees and planting him head first in the Falcons logo at midfield.

Gritsfed

November 29th, 2012
2:13 am

Hey ALPHA MALE, I live in Dalton! In case you can’t read a map that is north of Cartersville. The Falcons were up here in pre season to scrimmage the Titans. But LONG before that this area has had Falcon’s fans since I can remember–and that goes back to 1966 when I was 6 years old. And just so you know, every year the Chattanooga (that’s in Tennessee since you probably can’t read a map) sports radio station does a listener poll to find out which team the fans want to watch when there is a conflict between Fox and CBS affiliates when the Falcons and Titans are on the same network –which occurs a couple of times a year. The vote usually comes out 50-50. Obviously “Alpha Male” you need to change your name on here. It gives the rest of us true Alpha Males a bad name. Falcons win Thursday, BIG—just like in the old days, and even before the “Big Ben Right ” play when they used to kick Saint’s butt either at Atlana Stadium or Tulane Stadium (where the Saints used to play) 41-20 !

504BOYZWHODATNATION

November 29th, 2012
4:46 am

The Falcons need a bag over their head if they don’t play on the big stage. I am Saints Fan since I was born and raised in New Orleans, grew up on second lines Gumbo and Red Beans, Canal Street River walkin. I am pulling for the Falcons, just not against my boyz. We still going to put yall in ya place as we always do. Get off that after Katrina BS and the bounty scandal. We just happened to get hit with the charge. Defensive players train to go after the QB and the receive a salary for being good at just that. So what if they get an extra incentive. Do me a favor Falcons CheerLeaders Win the SUPERBOWL!!!!! Or shut the —- up.

WHODAT

November 29th, 2012
4:48 am

Mark Bradley is a deuche, and All Falcons fans are in denial. You really are our little brothers….Just deal with it. Jealousy is a b*&((tch isnt it? lmao!!!

504BOYZWHODATNATION

November 29th, 2012
5:04 am

Dear Dirty Bird Cheerleaders,

If yall get stage fright. You will see next year how its suppose to be done.

Paul

November 29th, 2012
6:00 am

It’s this simple: Run Michael Turner and we lose. Let Ryan be Ryan, and we win. Running Turner on 4th and inches lost the OT game, running Turner near the Goal Line lost the game this year. Will they ever learn?

End of story.

marko

November 29th, 2012
6:08 am

We all know Einstein’s definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. With that in mind, I’m confident that these aren’t the same old birds. Matt’s a five year starter. He’s the one that throws for three hundred plus week after week. Our offense looks more like the Saint’s offense than the Saint’s offense does. If New Orleans wants a gun fight, fine. Just remember that we have more guns than they do.

Whadda Ya Know?

November 29th, 2012
6:44 am

Falcons need to make this a statement game–for themselves. All that BS the Taints players talked is all because of Smitty and his coordinators lack of creativity playing this team. They are not infallible.

For once this team needs to play up to it’s potential and whip these suckers and send them home with one less playoff hope. We need to be physical with these punks who are nothing more than cheap shot artists. We owe them many a whipping…the first starts TONIGHT!

harleyman

November 29th, 2012
7:34 am

@ David. Why are you giving Hershel Talker a free pass when he only shows up when he has something to support his argument against the Dawgs? Which, by the way, hasn’t been very often here lately.

Whadda Ya Know?

November 29th, 2012
7:48 am

The reason the Taints have beaten the Falcons 11 of the last 13 times played is simple. Sean Payton just doesn’t say he’s aggressive, he attacks teams on the field from beginning to end. Smitty on the other hand is the epitome of conservativeness. He says he wants to attack our opponents, but he half azz does it for two quarters and then spends the second half trying to milk the clock. Now you tell me which HC is truly the aggressive one? Smitty is killing this team. I don’t want to hear that he has all these regular season wins…that don’t mean jack! If he wants to go deep into the playoffs or to the Superbowl, then he truly needs to use all the talent on this team to attack opponents from first whistle to the clock hits zero in the game. Let Koetter and Ryan handle the offense and stay the F out of it Mr. Control Freak!

Remarkable

November 29th, 2012
8:05 am

Yes! It is high time the Falcons hushed the yapping Saints. If they don’t then there is plenty of room to question whether they are the team they appear to be.

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November 29th, 2012
9:03 am

Is it a rivalry if you are on the short end of 11-2?

dc74

November 29th, 2012
9:12 am

Doused the Buccaneers ?? They won by one point in a game that the Bucs could have and probably should have won. Until the Falcons finally win something you shouldn’t be suprised that people don’t take them seriously.

Piedmont Southern

November 29th, 2012
9:20 am

Waiting to see how the Falcons do against the Giants. That should quiet down a lot of critics if they win.

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November 29th, 2012
9:25 am

Every week this thin roster loses a player. By playoff time the backups will be starting. Not a very good thing going against teams with actual winning records.

Bazooka Joe

November 29th, 2012
10:04 am

The last team in the nfl that should be calling anyone classless is the saints…. they are the worst, most classless bunch in the history of the nfl, which makes them a perfect match for that cesspool called new orleans. Like the gators, they dont believe the nfl existed before cheating peyton got there….. while we havent been able to enjoy the bi-annual beatdowns of NO lately (and trust me, we did…. they were out biotch) we will return to that – its the natural order of things.

Pamela

November 29th, 2012
10:16 am

The Saints and the Packers are always on the analysts’ mind. I saw a prelude to Peter King’s Monday morning quarterback column in which he told the Packers how and why they stunk on Sunday against the Gmen. He could have been a paid consultant.He probably did the same for the Saints. There is no good reason for the Falcons to lose tonight. Every team has its nemesis. Who would have dreamt that the Cleveland Browns would show up against the Steelers? Yes, the Saints will come marching in. The Falcons need to be mentally tough for 3 hours plus. It’s a chess game and I am sure that Mike Smith is learning from his mistakes. Asante and Spoon want to play; Roddy White made an outrageous statement that he has to back up. It’s all good. Only men play in the NFL; females would cringe at the sight and sound of fury these guys unleash at each other. It makes the division exciting and competitive. The Falcons will not be sleepwallking into the playoffs. They are the targets of the analysts, the competing teams and the whole nation. Falcons, rise up!

Seen This B4

November 29th, 2012
10:53 am

We all know, however, we must all forgive and learn to love these Saint fans that post here, even though they are ignominiously irritating, brash, arrogant, annoying, caustic, galling, hateful, nasty, unpleasant, peevish, cavalier, cocky, conceited, contemptible, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistical, haughty, insolent, overbearing, smug, snooty and snotty. There must be some redeeming factors about them………..er…………well………maybe not.

James

November 29th, 2012
11:06 am

First I DO like the Falcons and I DO believe they have a good team BUT I think they are soft…They played the Saints and were beaten…they have had an easy schedule..I believe if they play the Bears, Packers, Houston et al they will get destroyed. I think they will once again be one and done

Dawglasville

November 29th, 2012
11:14 am

Spoon gets that azz tonight.

To the Saints fans who live here but don’t like Atlanta, GO, excuse me, GEAUX home!

Seen This B4

November 29th, 2012
11:22 am

Where is Joe Tess Fish House? He is the ultimate and completely representative Saints fan. Where is he? He is a genius.

Heat Check

November 29th, 2012
11:50 am

Dawglasville,

Um, you do realize that Big Brother has whipped Atlanta even with Spoon in the line up right? I would be worried about Asante Samuel being out or trying to play with 1 arm.

Brees goes for 350+ and 3 td’s.

Big Brother 35 – Dirty Birds 27

Pamela

November 29th, 2012
11:53 am

Not Gonna Happen! The Saints will beat their pants off..as usual…GEAUX SAINTS!!! WHO DAT???

secrules

November 29th, 2012
12:01 pm

There is NO other team I want to beat more than the Saints. I mean I hope we hurt these MF’ers and mess um UP!

Hold up fellas

November 29th, 2012
12:10 pm

So it sounds like everyone is in the same place they were a few years back. Until we proved we could have back to back winning seasons nobody thought our winning would last. Now that has been replaced with we can’t win a playoff game. Like the winning seasons, this too will be overcome and the next thing will be we can’t win it all. Face it, the Falcons have consistently improved over the past few years and we will get the respect we deserve if we keep doing what we are doing.

Ray Edwards

November 29th, 2012
12:11 pm

I’m cheering for the Falcons too. I’ll be in section 118 with my shirt off.

Gentilly Filly

November 29th, 2012
12:15 pm

I am a die hard Who Dat and I have always enjoyed the Saints-Falcons rivalry. I think both cities are charming, full of great people and known for hospitality. From a football perspective, I think the Atlanta coach is too consevative. The Falcons’ offensive talent should be posting 35 points per game. Regarding “Bounty Gate”, unless you’ve seen evidence not made public, it appears that extreme punishments have been given based on rumor and inuendo. I will consider it a moral victory if our Saints can pull off a winning season under such daunting circumstances. What’s the difference between a Dirty Bird and a Dirty Tub? A Dirty Tub hs a ring! :) Here’s to a good game!

Escaped from Email Purgatory

November 29th, 2012
12:19 pm

The game means more to the Saints than it does to the Falcons. That would make it all the sweeter if we beat them.

Gotta figure the Birds offense needs to sustain drives and keep Brees and Company off the field. Not sure our defense can stop the Saints offense with any consistency. And the Falcons’ D is pretty banged up.

As good as we’ve been this year, we haven’t had a “statement” game yet. How about tonight?

NewOrleansJazz

November 29th, 2012
12:20 pm

yep shut our mouths tonight

No more talking

Chuck

November 29th, 2012
12:22 pm

Quite the homer there, MB. Just barely discussing White’s comment after the game a few weeks back in NOLA. Never mentioning his hateful speech last year regarding the city, post-Katrina. Way to be objective. You have a deadline to change your blog avatar to red-and-black pom poms?

whatever it takes

November 29th, 2012
12:24 pm

Put New Orleans down! Rough the qb and take the penalty, and take Graham out too! You Falcons need to do whatever it takes, but get the job done tonight. I’m sick of the Saints and you’re not going anywhere until these guys are off of our backs.

Nativebird

November 29th, 2012
12:27 pm

There is nothing wrong with this Falcon team in terms of the Players. But their HC needs to get his head out of his a$$. This guy needs to lose his little nice guy and sportsmanship routine and SToMP teams. For years the falcon nation continues to scratch their head while “Smitty” sits on a touchdown lead for a halftime of football….while elite teams like the Patriots and the Packers are flat out stepping on the gas hanging 50 points on the board, 21 of them in the fourth quarter with a 21 point lead! In the NFL, you get NO POINTS for being a “nice guy”. You’ve got to step on the neck of your beaten and downtrodden opponent and break their spirit, break their soul. You must vanquish them! This is a gladiator sport. You may not like that…but it’s reality. Be a PRIK Smitty! Belicheck is…and everybody considers himthe greatest thing that ever lived. Nobody CARES if you’re a nice guy!!!! This my friends is why these Falcons cannot win a playoff game. It’s the culture at the top. It must change.

Panic fan

November 29th, 2012
12:42 pm

The one thing i have noticed in watching the saints and how they win it still is quite clear its suspect
SEVERE GAME CHANGING PENALTIES
49ERS– 10 SAINTS 4
EAGLES — 7 SAINTS 4
RAIDERS– 11 SAINTS 4
FALCONS — 6 SAINTS 5
It is obvious in watching when these flags fly (late)
only after a game changing play ,always in favor of them, on both sides of the ball (stop a drive) (keep drive going) just know with wire tap at super dome
corruption runs rampant still .So will have to watch close when playing this team because the refs just might be a factor

Bryan

November 29th, 2012
1:04 pm

This is hilarious because no team in NFL has rep for talking more and producing less in playoff time than the falcons….remember “they didn’t really win a game today we gave it to them”….c’mon I think it’s about time the falcons HUSH UP!

FAILCANTS

November 29th, 2012
1:07 pm

Will always be owned by the Saints…what a homer and hilarious article…such desperate, delusional fans….

ATL will be forever SB ringless..lmao….bunch of frauds and amateurs…

Dawglasville

November 29th, 2012
1:07 pm

Heat Check – Spoon has played the Saints. He didn’t play in the loss this year. I feel that his play coupled with Julio going the entire game will make a difference. I’m glad that your team has enjoyed a few good years under Brees. To imply that the Saints are a Big Brother to anyone is silly.

Gentilly Filly – It was refreshing to read an intelligent post. Even the joke at the end was funny. Go Birds.

FAILCANTS

November 29th, 2012
1:08 pm

Hey, FAILCANTS…until you win a SB? Ssshhh…you’re an embarrassment….

Melted Ice tried to throw an egg

November 29th, 2012
1:08 pm

But missed…the bus was 10 yards away….

Loser franchise, loser team….no SB win…ever…lmao…

Iam D. Eggman

November 29th, 2012
1:15 pm

I hear things got ugly out at the airport when the Saints landed…those Atlanta airport workers are ready for tonight. Falcons will be facing some angry Saints…this should be good.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8689695/new-orleans-saints-say-bus-egged-atlanta-airport

warfalcon

November 29th, 2012
1:15 pm

LETS GO FALCONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

papa pink

November 29th, 2012
1:25 pm

Not only do the Falcons need to win tonight. They need to win big and knock the air out of Drew Brees(Breeze). The Falcons still have not gotten any respect from the NFL Media. I’ll bet you’ll hear more great things about the Aint’s than you will about the Falcons, and that is OK. Let the Falcons earn thier respect in February by winning the Super-Bowl. Don’t look ahead, let’s play one game at a time. I hope Smith goes to the no huddle offense in the Dome. This has always put the defense on it’s heels.

Dawglasville

November 29th, 2012
1:26 pm

FAILCANTS – I think it is funny that some of you guys talk like you’re in the company of the Steelers, Niners, Pats when you are really in the company of teams like the Bucs. Yeah you won one title, but you are going to be watching everyone else come January.

Don't believe the talk. This IS a rivalry!

November 29th, 2012
1:30 pm

I’m 43 years old. I remember the Big Ben play to beat those Saints way back when (God bless Steve Bartkowski). I remember the Saints good defenses in the 80’s – Patrick Swilling anyone?
We would have a terrible record and they would have a terrible record, and for some reason, when these two teams met, it was like watching a Super Bowl (a close one – not one of those one-sided affairs). Today, I have a really good friend from NOLA that I rag on all season long. When my son was born, he sent me a small Saints football. I called him and asked if he was flat out crazy. When I call him – he checks caller ID and answers “Who Dat?” I always tell him how stupid he sounds when he abuses the King’s english that way. Don’t kid yourself people. This game means a lot between both these cities, these fans, and yes between very good friends. Lately, my pal has been rubbing my nose in this. I wouldn’t have it any other way – he knows I would be letting him have it if my Dirty Birds win it. I hope that this time is different and we get a little payback – I love the Saints because I absolutely LOVE to hate them.

ELLLIOTTT

November 29th, 2012
1:37 pm

THE DIRTY BIIIIIRD ROCK!

http://www.dirtybirdrock.blogspot.com

1saintman

November 29th, 2012
1:43 pm

who is this loser reporter? WHO DAT!!! i guess Roddy White running his mouth EVERY year isn’t classless? Falcan’ts lose AGAIN to the MIGHTY SAINTS!!!!

ATL SAINTS

November 29th, 2012
1:58 pm

WHO DAT?!! Falcons are overrated.. played the easiest schedule so far out of all NFL teams

Not For Long Network

November 29th, 2012
2:00 pm

For those who have digital cable but don’t have nfl network and don’t live in Atlanta area

Just subscribe to the sports package and get the nfl network immediately…they have a special deal going…I subscribed just for this game and will cancel afterwards

jeff Green

November 29th, 2012
2:33 pm

@alpha fail–you are a moron! i’ve lived in chattanooga all my life and have loved the falcons since 1972! i hate the titans and their bandwagon fans. the first year they were in tennessee and called the tennessee oilers they had no fans. then in ‘99 they somehow go to the super bowl and everyone loves them. get out of here with your no one above cartersville likes the falcons crap. chattanooga is and always will be falcon country!!!!

Nola Cola

November 29th, 2012
2:38 pm

Let’s face FACTS : no matter HOW MUCH you may absolutely DESPISE us, the bottom line is that WE HAVE OWNED YOU —–PERIOD; and there’s not a d*mn thing you can do about it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Esquire

November 29th, 2012
2:51 pm

Well written article Mr. Bradley. It’s time to open up a can on these guys and play playoff caliber football. Would like for our Falcons to be the catalyst that the Caints finish out their season playing for draft position.

Pound, Punish, Pummel, Maul, and Demolish the Caints!!

WE ARE THE MIGHTY MIGHTY FALCONS!!!

Jimmy Crack

November 29th, 2012
3:00 pm

“I’m cheering for the Falcons too. I’ll be in section 118 with my shirt off.”

- Ray Edwards

lol Yea, Ray, and you’ll be just as productive from there.

Heat Check

November 29th, 2012
3:11 pm

Dawglasville,

I would like to remind you that Sproles didn’t play in the last game. I think the Saints would welcome the idea of Atlanta paying extra attention, even trying to double Jimmy Graham. Sproles will have a field day

AtlSwagger

November 29th, 2012
3:18 pm

I am surprised that Dude can spell ALPHA right. Stop making yourself look stupid. I cant wait to get in there and hit them in the mouth. Lets end the saints season now.. Win the NFC south and move on and act like we been there before. They talk about the Saints have done this and that.. We have won in the playoffs before. We were in a Superbowl b4. You guys have one Superbowl. Stop living in the past. And with the airport egging. I am not even sure it is real. Where are the pictures. And if they would not have tweeted it, nobody would have knew. The back up quaterback should go hold his clip board and stop trying to get media attention. And the call us classless. Yet their fans kill fans from other teams. They came to Atlanta and complain but will not GO HOME, and their players went as far to PEE on the Falcons logo last year! AND WHO IS CLASSLESS? I would like to see responses if you can spell well enough or know how to use a computer Saints Fans.

Heat Check

November 29th, 2012
3:26 pm

AtlSwagger,

nobody literally pee’d on the field logo, dude would be in jail for doing that, c’mon already! The pictures taken were of the player “posing” on the Falcon logo with his leg hiked up in the air similar to the way a dog would relieve himself.

Heat Check

November 29th, 2012
3:30 pm

If you don’t believe me that it wasn’t just rhetoric here is the link of the photo in question

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Saints+Pee+on+Falcons+logo&hl=en&safe=strict&sa=X&tbo=d&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&biw=1440&bih=719&tbm=isch&tbnid=Pd9Npbh4xV4MXM:&imgrefurl=http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-falcons-blog/%3Fp%3D5871%26cp%3D2&docid=QwdF2Fb8F6VGhM&imgurl=http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-falcons-blog/files/2010/12/saints_falcons-logo-2.jpg&w=461&h=346&ei=r8W3UK3pGpTu8ASU4YCICw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=454&sig=108331232477669378480&page=1&tbnh=154&tbnw=209&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:91&tx=122&ty=76

inkspot

November 29th, 2012
4:10 pm

OK, we’re officially stealing the EGG BOWL moniker from the Ole Miss- Mississippi St game. Apologies to the state of Mississippi. And if the Falcons win, the Egg Bowl for Falcons-Saints just might “stick.”

Mike Lum

November 29th, 2012
4:36 pm

dubshakk _

If you don’t want to get hit by a hurricane with a 7 day warning, get out of town.

Big Donnie

November 29th, 2012
5:05 pm

I for one loathe the miserable Saints and their ridiculous, illiterate fans. Even the battle cry is a reflection of the stupidity that permeates that God-forsaken town. Why the Falcons let these guys own them is beyond me. If Michael Turner gets the ball with 1 yard to go, I may slit my own throat. Simple little miscues have given the Falcons at least 5 losses over this stretch of New Orleans dominance. Just play smart, and win the game. Falcons fans would like nothing more than to see a dagger plunged through the heart of this miserable franchise tonight. All silly playoff hopes for the Saints destroyed at the hands of the Falcons.

And Drew Brees’ birthmark looks idiotic. Some days, it appears to be your standard run-of-the-mill brown birthmark, and some days, it looks like a scar. Other days, it appears swollen like a bug bite. WHAT IS IT??? I’m calling BS on Drew – that’s not even a real birthmark sissyboy.

RISE UP!!!!!

BobDawg

November 29th, 2012
5:12 pm

…they are in the coffin… I have a shovel handy and ready to put the final bit of dirt on them tonight!!!! I can line up a Mardi Gras band to serenade their 2012 death also….

BobDawg

November 29th, 2012
5:14 pm

The hole is dug for the Saints and all we have to do is push them over and sprinkle a little dirt on their sorry butts…

ppeck

November 29th, 2012
5:31 pm

If I see a fourth and one tonight by the Falcons and they don’t boot Ryan around the end. I will EGG the Falcon bus when it gets to FLowery Branch. Puhleeeze !

Really?

November 29th, 2012
5:43 pm

The taint’s players are as pathetic as their fans. Crying and complaining about everything with their hands out begging for charity. The taint’s got used to freebies from the nfl and their fans live off of pity and welfare.

smithyred

November 29th, 2012
5:50 pm

I do not think that happened. They just wanted everyone to know that they were in town and they wanted publicity.

ATL has egg on its face

November 29th, 2012
6:12 pm

Throwing eggs at our opponent? It is really sad when fans lose perspective and forget that these are human beings and it is ONLY A GAME. My God, people, get a life!

1lovefalcons20

November 29th, 2012
6:27 pm

love the egg thorowing at the aints..next time i hope they are stones…way to show passion FALCONS..I,M LOVING IT…I LOVE FOLKS THAT ARE PASSIONATE WHEN IT COMES TO MY FALCONS….RISE UP !

air of mendacity

November 29th, 2012
6:37 pm

come on – eggs are harmless. I for one am sick and tired of Saints. They are dirty cheap shot bounty hunters. We need to win this game for sure. If we don’t, let’s hope they don’t make playoffs because they might have our number. Rather play SFO than Aints

Seen This B4

November 29th, 2012
6:56 pm

Egg-axactly

billsaints

November 29th, 2012
7:10 pm

bagheads win superbowl.falcons lose history.jeff h

Who Dat Dude

November 29th, 2012
7:10 pm

Get ready 11-2 Oh yeah pigeon fans y’all are familiar with the #2 the same amount of points y’all put up against the Giants LOL!! We own you little shitters!! Oh and by the way we throw touchdowns not eggs bottom feeders!!!

billsaints

November 29th, 2012
7:13 pm

falcons playoff mat

Live from Falcons-Saints: Welcome to the Egg Bowl! | Mark Bradley

November 29th, 2012
7:14 pm

[...] and seven of nine since the advent of Dimitroff/Smith/Ryan. Yes, it’s getting old. Yes, it’s time for the Falcons to beat this team, which on the record isn’t all that good. Yes, I believe it will happen [...]

Who Dat Girl!!

November 29th, 2012
7:26 pm

Y’all throw eggs we throw touchdowns baby!!!the closest the pigeons will get to a Super Bowl is on Madden LOL !!! Who Dat!!! We Dat !!! Clowns!!!

I Threw the Egg

November 29th, 2012
7:27 pm

Playoff records:

Atlanta 6-11 = 17 games

NO 6-6 = 12 games
First play Appearance 1988

December 28, 1991 Atlanta Falcons 27, New Orleans Saints 20

There you go Aint fans deal with it.

Pete

November 29th, 2012
7:55 pm

Maybe if they werent busy chucking eggs, we wouldnt have to wait so long for our luggage.

Time

November 29th, 2012
8:15 pm

Am I the only one who thinks Lance Armstrong when I hear the self serving supposed hero of a city Drew Brees run his yap?

neworleanssaintsguy

November 29th, 2012
8:16 pm

Interesting journalism Mr. Bradley,

In trying to understand your vitriol towards the Saints, I clicked on the link cited in your story that, “The Saints are reviled throughout the NFL.” As a lifelong Saints fan who has lived all across the country I’ve never encountered anyone who speaks of the Saints with such venom. So I clicked on your “cite.” I can only describe it as comical that you cite your own story as a cite in this story. That’s pretty comical, although not very convincing that your solo soliloquy is anything other than your opinion, and more angst at that.

To be honest. I’ve never had much hatred for the Falcons. For decades both the Falcons and Saints were the lovable losers of the 49′er/Ram owned NFC South. I even had the great pleasure of seeing the Falcons beat the ‘98 Vikings, in person, at the NFC Championship game. However, there does appear to be some anger towards the Saints on the Falcons side. Perhaps that is a sign of success.

However, I suspect that your angst comes from the fact that the Falcons are, for whatever local reasons there are, mostly backpage news in Atlanta; in sharp contrast to New Orleans, a city that lives and dies with its team. In the end, the Falcons lack of success on the field can be explained as being the same lack of general enthusiasm that you see in the Atlanta area for the Falcons. Apathy is contagious.

When the Saints lose, its all anyone in New Orleans talks about the next day. If the Falcons lose, this article, and the Falcons, will be off the front page before the stands have emptied (approximately speaking). I can say firmly, without any pleasure in the statement, that the Falcons, like the majority of their fans, lack heart. You can feel it in the stadium, the players can feel it on the field, and, if the Saints win, which I give them a decent chance of doing, no one will read your article in the morning.

80sFalcon

November 29th, 2012
8:34 pm

Running game is good Turner TD!!!

MenVsBoys

November 29th, 2012
8:52 pm

The inability to bring consistent pressure on QBs will kill this team against the leagues best offenses.

Iluvnutella

November 29th, 2012
8:54 pm

Hey Saints ur cookin is AWESOME, ur town, ur team and ur fans all suck big fat ones…..Dont like it?
COME AT ME BRO!

MenvsBoys

November 29th, 2012
9:11 pm

Geaux Saintssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

MnvsBoys

November 29th, 2012
9:17 pm

The NY Gints or Green Bay or San Fran will end the Falcons season fast.

mdrake58

November 30th, 2012
12:17 am

I have to agree about winning at least the first playoff game. But 5 turnovers for the offense spells disaster if the Saints defense cannot reciprocate. The Aints simply are do not have the firepower and defense this time to defeat the Falcons. Rebuild N.O. next year and see what happens. For 2012 , go Falcons. You represent the best the NFC South has to give.

Vett

November 30th, 2012
10:04 am

we definitely hushed them! Crazy story, great game!!! I’m so happy I was there to witness: http://www.rcsoatl.com/2012/11/best-falcons-season-ever-continues.html

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November 30th, 2012
10:35 am

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