Live from Falcons versus Saints: Welcome to the Egg Bowl!
Borrowing a Mississippi custom, the winner of tonight's game gets a handsome egg trophy. (AP photo)
By now, you’ve heard that some workers at Hartsfield-Jackson greeted the arrival of the New Orleans Saints by pelting a team bus with eggs. What the humorless Saints apparently failed to grasp was that the throwing of eggs is an Atlanta welcoming tradition. Like draping a lei around an arriving tourist is in Hawaii. Or like tossing beads is during Mardi Gras.
Wait a second. Scratch that last one.
As if this rivalry of Big Ben Right and Drew Brees rubbing it in needed more fuel, the egg toss surely supplied it. These teams, as you know, despise one another. The Falcons hate the Saints because the Saints keep beating them and laughing about it. The Saints hate the Falcons because the Falcons never seem to get the yolk … er, joke. (And also because of Roddy White. Don’t forget Roddy White.)
Cold numbers in a heated series: The Saints have won 11 of the past 13 games against the Falcons 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 tonight.
And with that, the figurative floor is again open. I’ll be here to watch, comment and toss out the ceremonial first egg. I invite you to join me, and I promise to do my best to see that all of y’all have an eggcellent time.
By Mark Bradley
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I Threw the Egg
November 29th, 2012
11:51 pm
So sweet we ended the record……
phil
November 29th, 2012
11:51 pm
Indeed satisfying. Goodnight all.
Big Crimson 75
November 29th, 2012
11:51 pm
Roddy was incognito.
phil
November 29th, 2012
11:52 pm
Keep phil!!
mars=lifetime dawg
November 29th, 2012
11:52 pm
T’wern’t perty, but I’ll take it. Now i’ll go to the toiulet and take me a great big WhoDat!
1990_Champs_GT
November 29th, 2012
11:53 pm
Antietam, I’m old gold and white on Saturday, but every Sunday since I was five, I BLEED RED AND BLACK BABY!
kingdaddy
November 29th, 2012
11:53 pm
Crim
Time for the paperbags to come back in style in NO…
It's over now
November 29th, 2012
11:53 pm
If Brees spent more time practicing and less time making TV commercials, making BS pre-game speeches and lying to media about the bounties maybe he’d be the QB he once was. Then again, I like what he did tonight………
vesaversa
November 29th, 2012
11:53 pm
11/1 Pathetic lmao
Antietam
November 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
Where’s Assante’s replacement from…Connecicutt? Really? Shows u the value of a well trained eye like Dimitroff’s. Nice pick up Tom.
I Threw the Egg
November 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
@ Big Crimson 75 you next. It’s a RED AND BLACK weekend……
LOL at The Aints
November 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
The game went Eggzactly according to plan, LOL
Thrash
November 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
Saints ain’t much away from the SuperDump.
Seen This B4
November 29th, 2012
11:55 pm
Yep
Section 212
November 29th, 2012
11:56 pm
Now you egg the bus!
Big Crimson 75
November 29th, 2012
11:56 pm
Roddy’s ticked he didn’t play well enough to make the NFL Network post-game Set.
1990_Champs_GT
November 29th, 2012
11:57 pm
Love that sign, “All I want for Christmas is the 32nd pick in the draft!”
Antietam
November 29th, 2012
11:57 pm
1990_Champs_GT…well said. If you ranked teams by success of education i would be willing to bet GT top 5. Not saying UGA is not a great college but gotta give props where props are due. Restore the State and beat down the Criminoles.
pat2012falcon
November 29th, 2012
11:57 pm
This game is what falcons prepare most of the season. With this game behind now, I hope they open the offense and play with less pressure. We love you Birds!!
Great Falconi
November 29th, 2012
11:58 pm
Humpty Dumpty fell on the Aints tonight. Smelled like rotten eggs. Enjoy, Aints.
kerryb
November 29th, 2012
11:58 pm
I wish the Falcons would wear the black jerseys and red helmets all the time at home. They don’t ever seem to lose in them.
Left Coast Dawg
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
That was a cool sign!
GO FALCONS
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
Brees, doesn’t own this division!!!
kingdaddy
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
Can’t find a dozen eggs in 5 counties. Got some duck eggs…You throw them, then holler “Duck!”…
Antietam
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
When I served in the Army in a combat unit, we looked at each other being only one color…green. With what We Falcon fans have been through, I believe ATL all bleeds RED. Old school helmet of course is a nice touch. Will look great on replays.
Big Crimson 75
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
I Threw the Egg
November 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
@ Big Crimson 75 you next. It’s a RED AND BLACK weekend……
—–
Nope.
We win despite UGA having superior talent.
Great Falconi
November 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Humpty Dumpty smelled like rotten eggs
Running down Brees’s shakin’ legs.
kerryb
November 30th, 2012
12:00 am
William Moore should have been sitting on the set. He was the MVP of the game.
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:00 am
Sean Peyton is a Dallas bound man. The only way he can leave bounty gate behind. Plus uncle Jerry will throw a ton of money at him to move to a town worth living in.
take it from me.
November 30th, 2012
12:00 am
Matt Ryan and the offence have got to perform better in the playoffs, or it could be one and done!
kerryb
November 30th, 2012
12:01 am
You think the Saints finally know that WE own this Division now?
Antietam
November 30th, 2012
12:01 am
Hey can we get a shout out for the tarmac employees at Hartsfield. You know your having a bad day when….
Sav FAN
November 30th, 2012
12:02 am
Okay-I was wrong on the final- no nails left Bring on Cam
I Threw the Egg
November 30th, 2012
12:02 am
@ Bg Crimson 75. Just got a dozen eggs when are the Tide Rolling in…..
1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:02 am
Brees,
Where those five interceptions because Goodell did the Aints wrong, or was it because you wrote a check your midget a$$ can’t cash? See u next year with new coach Andy Reid!
Don’t worry, there will be mistakes, but Reid will “address them.”
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:03 am
Agreed Moore was great. But Matty Ice gave the credit to the defense.
1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:03 am
Great Falconi,
Who dat?
chickenman
November 30th, 2012
12:05 am
Matt Ryans record at home is absolutely ridiculous!!! 4 losses in 5 years?!? ….Brees, 7 ints last 2 games?!? unbelievable
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:05 am
@ Antietam, let’s take up a collection for them. Way to get the ball rolling guys. Geeze, I might start flying Delta again!
I Threw the Egg
November 30th, 2012
12:05 am
Rceord is over…. And we claimed a new one 5 int’s….. Got luck everybody else
kingdaddy
November 30th, 2012
12:06 am
Brees now leads the NFL in INTs, lol…I guess he’s got a little egg on his face. He threw as many balls to our guys as he did his own. Refs sucd…
puff
November 30th, 2012
12:07 am
Very glad for the win but it’s not hard to see why so many doubt this Falcons team. The Saints played like they were primed for a 3-4 TD beatdown. Maybe the Falcons strategy is to perpetuate under-estimation by never really sticking the knife in.
Antietam
November 30th, 2012
12:07 am
“I like where we are but we gotta get a lot better” Tony G post game. It ain’t pretty but…just win baby!!!!
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:08 am
I wonder if the refs plan to ride the Saint’s bus back to the airport? Could cut down on the egg consumption.
Falcon1
November 30th, 2012
12:08 am
HaHa all you AINTS bitches!!!! LMFAO….. Y’all lost! The Falcons won!!!! Maybe next year….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
Great Falconi
November 30th, 2012
12:08 am
Who dat?
We dat.
kingdaddy
November 30th, 2012
12:08 am
This is what I like—
Saints 5-7—
Falcons 11-1— We won the South Baby…
1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:09 am
Great win! In the playoffs. Division is ours to lose. Home field is ours to lose.
But it don’t mean a thing if you don’t get that ring! Keep it up and we can hoist that trophy!
Antietam
November 30th, 2012
12:09 am
SCFalcon seriously that’s a good idea. You have to admit that when you read the story you were proud of them. We ain’t nobody’s B****.
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:10 am
I agree it aint pretty, but I’ve been a fan since 1973, the past five years are so much better than the past 39 years………..