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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1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:11 am
Damn right, Great Falconi!
kingdaddy
November 30th, 2012
12:11 am
Now we get a couple of eggstra days to heal-up…
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:11 am
@Antietam agreed! Who cares what the talking heads say, Do the math, we’re 11-1
playmeortrademe
November 30th, 2012
12:11 am
I wouldn’t worry about the offense as long as the coaches recognize that Turners runs best when he can can out on the edge and get some momentum and Quizz is better for traps and counters. Not sure what the coverage was like on Julio all night but there has to be ways to get him open.
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:13 am
Dang, I gotta go to work in the err this morning………………..
Antietam
November 30th, 2012
12:13 am
I do miss Steve Bartkowski, William Andrews, Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, Jesse Tuggle, and yes even Deon Sanders. You know Tuggle’s proud right now.
Antietam
November 30th, 2012
12:15 am
F*** Chris Lofton. Do you see how we treated him at the end of the game. Like Family. Roddy White included. How anyone can call us classless is a mystery to me.
1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:17 am
After tonight, I think that bandwagon’s gonna be full. But for the true, long suffering fans, there is almost nothing sweeter than beating the Aints.
It doesn’t matter if neither team has a win; beating the Aints is a must and losing is inexcusable.
We dusted those losers, and in the words of soon to be former Tech coach CPJ:
We’ve got bigger fish to fry!
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:19 am
Yep. Bart was awesome. So sad he got his knees banged up early in his career. Big Ben right, remmeber that?
SCFalcon
November 30th, 2012
12:21 am
I got to try and get some sleep, night all, it’s been great.
Visions of playoffs dancing in my head…….
1990_Champs_GT
November 30th, 2012
12:22 am
Drew doesn’t own the division, but he does own several pairs of men’s size four clets.
Nike had to special order them for Mrs. Brees’ baby boy.
playmeortrademe
November 30th, 2012
12:24 am
Watching this team all year, they have the ingredients to dominate. I think it’s going to click for them once they clinch the division and they’ll play more complete games in the playoffs. The offensive line seems to be the weakest link and they’ve been playing relatively well. If the Falcons play a complete game and crush the Giants in two weeks, the light is going to go on for them, and it’ll be fun.
Left Coast Dawg
November 30th, 2012
12:30 am
The Falcons are who we thought they were…..winners!
bowfan
November 30th, 2012
12:37 am
Congrats on a great win Falcons! Now remember, nobody gets arrested while celebrating, right? right?? Celebrate, you’ve earned it, but call a cab!
Vett
November 30th, 2012
10:03 am
Crazy game, great game!!! I’m so happy I was there to witness: http://www.rcsoatl.com/2012/11/best-falcons-season-ever-continues.html