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AJC: Falcons lose the most Atlanta game ever

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Kudos to Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal Constitution for the oh-so-funny title.

The article itself is long, but eminently readable.

Falcons lose the most Atlanta game ever

This wasn’t just another in Atlanta’s lengthy series of Hard Knocks and Epic Collapses. This was the absolute worst. This was the game that, with 17 minutes and seven seconds remaining, could not be lost. It was.

No team in the Super Bowl’s first 50 installments had led by 11 points and not won. The Falcons led by 25 and lost. For three quarters, they played so well on this biggest of stages that these fingers were composing a tone poem to Dan Quinn and his Brotherhood and Kyle Shanahan and his unstoppable offense and Matt Ryan as the architect of this franchise’s deliverance. That bit of verse has been shredded, along with a starving city’s hopes and dreams.

Officially, the Falcons lost 34-28 on James White’s 2-yard touchdown run on the first series of the first overtime of any Super Bowl, but this game was gone when the Patriots guessed right on the post-regulation’s coin toss. (“Heads,” they called, and so it was.) By then, the Falcons’ young and swift defense had seen it legs turn to jelly.

Those defenders had given a brassy account of themselves against the great Tom Brady, sacking him five times and watching Robert Alford take one of his passes 82 yards to put the Falcons ahead 21-0. With the defense going above and beyond anyone’s expectations, this team should be flying back to Hartsfield-Jackson with the Lombardi Trophy buckled into first class. Alas, there will be no triumphant return, no parade down Peachtree. There will be only this pejorative question:

How does a team capable of playing that well choke so badly?

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Closing paragraphs...

I’m sorry. I really am. I’m not trying to be unduly negative. I just don’t know how anybody who cares about the Falcons can ever square this loss. They were an eyelash from maybe the biggest moment in Atlanta sports history, and they wound up watching Belichick and Brady being handed yet another trophy.

Afterward Quinn sought to talk — yes, again — about his team’s Brotherhood, but this loss will put even the strongest bond to the test. Not trying to be melodramatic, but this is the sort of flop that can scar a franchise. The Braves of the ‘90s never got past the Jim Leyritz home run, and that was in a non-elimination World Series game. This was the game with Roman Numerals and Lady Gaga. This was the Falcons’ game, and they blew it. They blew the most Atlanta game ever.

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8 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Closing paragraphs...

 

 

I love you for this post. Nothing makes me happier than the misery of Falcons fans. Guess what bitches, Matt Ryan is poo and a choke artist and your children will share the same misery as you for generations. 

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51 minutes ago, Montsta said:

I love you for this post. Nothing makes me happier than the misery of Falcons fans. Guess what bitches, Matt Ryan is poo and a choke artist and your children will share the same misery as you for generations. 

This one's gonna be talked about for a looooooves time.

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I quit watching when they returned the brady pic.  I woke up this morning with an email about super bowl gear and grudgingly opened it expecting to see Atl had won.  I about shot the bed when I saw Patriots shirts!  Like Monday said, what a great day to be alive.

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It gets better...

Freeman, Shanahan point fingers

Tom Pelissero ‏@TomPelissero

I asked Devonta Freeman if Dont'a Hightower is his man on the strip-sack: "No." Won't give details. Just keeps saying Hightower made a play.

Tom Pelissero ‏@TomPelissero

Kyle Shanahan says yes, that actually was Devonta Freeman's guy. Hasn't gotten to talk to him yet. Matt was expecting him to be picked up.

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4 minutes ago, Cracka McNasty said:

http://deadspin.com/all-the-falcons-had-to-do-was-not-lose-23-yards-1792028183

"All The Falcons had to do was not lose 23 yards"

From the article...

This is the sort of thing that haunts a city for a long, long time. And it should! All they had to do was not lose 23 yards and fall out of field goal range. Do you know how easy it is to not do that? There are a billion ways to not lose 23 yards! Teams manage to not lose 23 yards all the time!

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6 hours ago, Montsta said:

fuging cocky ass Falcons defenders all game long eat poo you motherfugers Tom Brady just Negan'd you bitches and Matt Ryan ate poo. 

I couldn't be happier if we won ourselves. 

What a great day to be alive. 

 

I've been talking to people, all night...telling them, I hate the patriots won, but...

 

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