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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dean
November 29th, 2012
9:23 pm
Do the refs have blinders on tonight?
Roy
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Great teams make it 21-0 there on that one.
Michael M.
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
different ballgame than the one in the swamps………………..
Mark Bradley
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Spoon with the egg. I mean, the ball.
Roy
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
SPOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!
Jimmy
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Baby!
2 > 7
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Spoon!!!
falconsrus
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Spoooooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!
LOL at The Aints
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!! LOL
phil
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Glad I was wrong!
Now go score a TD!!
Big Crimson 75
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Spooooooooon
MenVsBoys
November 29th, 2012
9:24 pm
Sloppy game by receivers on both sides.
Todd grantham
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
Sam, lets not mention chickens and choking in the same sentence.
Captain Obvious
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
These officials are so in the tank for NO it’s not funny. No shame. Grabbing Roddy’s arm with ball in the air. 2 blocks in the back. No holding on NO lineman, even on the pick by Witherspoon.
Just shameful.
dean
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
Re leeeeease me
Scott
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
…and already in field goal range
Jay Dubu
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
The Falcons have to get points here. This turnover #2, and they should put this game out of hand by the half.
MenVsBoys
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
Get some killer! NOW!
phil
November 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
The Burner for 2…
Jimmy
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
our run game seemed to die.
Roy
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
If the Falcons don’t go up 21-0 here, they really don’t know how to kill an opponent.
Big Crimson 75
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Even Turner’s usual 1 or 2 yard plunges look better tonight
kingdaddy
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Brees is madder than a wet hen …
me
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
NO getting pressure up the middle.
phil
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Boooooo!
Jay Dubu
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
“Gold Aurther”…Is that Auther Blank?
MenVsBoys
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Lots of balls bouncing off receivers
mars=lifetime dawg
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Sorry Mark, for the wirty dird! No need to moderate, just remove the comment. I’ll try to be humorous in a PG fashion from now on.
kral
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
thank for accepting a heart felt comment and good-night phil ..let ‘em have it
Roy
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Falcons come on! Defense is giving you all kinds of opportunities! My god!!!!!
dean
November 29th, 2012
9:26 pm
Works every time
Mark Bradley
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Not much of a series, I must note.
Jimmy
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Ryan needs to be cool. Passes are off a lot tonight.
J.J.M.
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Ryan is off tonight
MenVsBoys
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Bad pass on Ryan. Bad series.
phil
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Ryan is off yet again….
Here comes Choke Bryan!
bnakka
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Falcons ain’t all that…..
me
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Ryan is off. Brees is off. Which one gets going first.
godless heathen
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Money
Mark Bradley
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Falcons do lead by 17, though. That’s not nothing
bnakka
November 29th, 2012
9:27 pm
Saints spook the Falcons as is evident….
Todd grantham
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
Saints just flapping around.
phil
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
Better!
Need Bryant badly with our sputtering, choking offense.
MenVsBoys
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
Being up by 3 scores is better than being down 3 scores. Still…sloppy.
kral
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
sorry mark b temptation got the best of me I apologize to all..including phil
Roy
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
17-0 is good, but to beat a team like the Saints who can come back at any time, you must score touchdowns!!! Touchdowns! Touchdowns! Touchdowns!
DawgNole
November 29th, 2012
9:28 pm
kingdaddy
November 29th, 2012
9:22 pm
DawgNole
it’s a completly new model TB…that’s what you get for carrying on with him. I thought you would know that by now. Let him go after the trolls. Let them deal with him, lol. I don’t read many post over 4-5 lines…
Block in the back on punt…
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Nah, he’s no different. Still lying, contradicting, and distorting. Can’t give that kind of scum the last word. He’s being exposed, though, as more posters begin to see through his BS.
me
November 29th, 2012
9:29 pm
@Roy
“Falcons come on! Defense is giving you all kinds of opportunities! My god!!!!!”
Breath. It is 17-0.
wreckmaniac
November 29th, 2012
9:29 pm
Boy, its great to be up here in Anderson SC, 19 miles from the GA state line not having to watch the Falcons. Gee, I guess I will just sit here and wait under Sunday pm and see the exciting Carolina Panthers.
Although I grew up in Atlanta and became a Falcon fan, the NFL knows better than I do what team I should support.
I know. The solution is to add NFL ticket to my Direct TV bill which is already $80 per month. I just need to stop being so cheap and get with the program.
LOL at The Aints
November 29th, 2012
9:29 pm
Defense has been very impressive,, offense is good,, long way to go but you can tell who the class of the NFC South is. LOL