12 reasons to hate the falcons:

by David. on Dec 8, 2009 5:03 PM CST

12. Think about it. Bobby Petrino picked Arkansas over Atlanta.

Arkansas.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3150783

11. Not so much “Dirty Bird”. More “Funky Chicken”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlci-M5pO4

10.Nothing good ever happens in Atlanta. Just ask Ray Lewis and Pacman Jones.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3817195
AND
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/news/2000/01/31/lewis_murder_ap/

9. Mike Smith thinks he can take DeAngelo Hall. This either says a lot about Mike Smith or a lot about Hall. I’ll go with the former.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI0uJZqr9Us

8. Matt Ryan is currently attending the Tom Brady School of Douchebaggery. This includes an endorsement deal with “Axe Hair”.

http://superbowl.fanhouse.com/2009/01/29/fanhouse-talks-to-offensive-rookie-of-the-year-falcons-qb-matt/

7.They got rid of Brett Favre. Favre was traded from Atlanta to Green Bay for his former Southern Miss teammate, Tony Smith. Smith went on to play three mediocre seasons for the Falcons. Whoops?

http://misterirrelevant.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/cardboard-icon-brett-favre.jpg

6. The existence of the term “Hotlanta”. This most probably isn’t the Falcons' fault, but hey, you gotta blame somebody.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hotlanta

5. My phone number. 4 years after Hurricane Katrina forced me to get an Atlanta number, I am still getting calls for some random dude named Stephen. Stephen has yet to inform people that he changed his number. C’mon, man.

4. Balloon Boy’s name is Falcon. Birds of a feather flock together.
The Atlanta Falcons are obviously liars.

3. The Saints have a long history with them, and it’s a losing one. The Saints clock in with 36 wins and 45 losses. That is gradually changing, but until then…HATE HATE HATE!

2. Shane Falco. Wears red. Named Shane FALCO[N]. That’s right. I’m blaming the entire Falcons franchise for the marketing success Keanu Reeves. Jerks.

http://www.themoviemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/shane-falco.jpg

1. Matt Ryan makes more money playing football than Peyton Manning. How absurd is this?

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Hell yeah!

Brees gonna throw down the Saints... Wide open Devery Henderson! Nobody's within twenty yards of him! He could do the backstroke into the end zone from there! And he'll take it in for a seventy-five yard touchdown strike!

by Joseph William Stern on Dec 8, 2009 5:19 PM CST reply actions

I dont need

anymore reasons to hate the Falcons.

by saint-sly on Dec 8, 2009 5:48 PM CST reply actions

Loved #4

but hey dont pick on Keanu Reeves I liked that movie

by N_O_1saintfan on Dec 8, 2009 6:33 PM CST reply actions

Yes!!!

made me spit out my mini taco. Very funny. I love Balloon Boy references.

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by Dave Cariello on Dec 8, 2009 8:06 PM CST up reply actions

What in the HELL is a mini taco???

Is it some lett, tom, chee, mea, and sals on a burr?

Fat, dumb, and happy. Hell, two out of three ain't bad!

I Want To Die In My Sleep Like My Grandpa – Not Screaming and Yelling Like His Passengers

by Just 'Nother Day on Dec 9, 2009 3:34 AM CST up reply actions

#13 - Mike Vick fans

by Drew-Dat on Dec 8, 2009 10:09 PM CST reply actions

Better Reasons

1969 Atlanta 45 New Orleans 17
1970 Atlanta beat us twice, including the home opener
1971 Atlanta beat us twice again (5 in a row)
1972 Atlanta goes to 7 – 1 against us.
1973 Atlanta in home opener beat us 62 – 7 go to 9 – 1 (9 wins in a row)
1975 Atlanta 10 – 4
1976 Atlanta 11 – 5
1977 Atlanta beat us 35 – 7 in season ender (12 – 6)
1978 Alanta sweep us with two 20 – 17 wins and we finished 7 – 9, could have had first winning season and playoff. We had both those games and lost both to Hail Marys. My hate of Atlanta became entrenched.
1979 An opening season loss in overtime, when our punter tried to throw a pass, which was intercepted in the endzone Saints lost 40 – 34. We were 8 – 8 and they cost us our second winning season and second playoff appearance. I couldn’t say Atlanta without spitting.
1980 When the wheels fell off, the year of the bags. 1 -15, including 41 – 14 and 31 -13 losses to the hated Falcons.
1981 An opening shutout 27 – 0 and 41 -10 blowout in New Orleans. I wanted to personally pummel any Falcon player or fan with insults anytime, anywhere, anyplace by now.
1982 The Strike Year Atlanta crushed us in Atlanta 35 – 0.
1984 In our home opener with Bum Phillip’s best team they beat us 36 – 28
1985 Atlanta sweep us again beating both Bum and Wade in the same year.
1986 in Jim Mora’s first game they crushed us 31 – 10
1990 Atlanta beat us on a last second td 28 – 27. We finished 8 – 8 that year and should have had a winning season.
1991 Atlanta split in the regular season and then in playoffs. How I hated them?
1993 Atlanta split with us and cost us a playoff berth.
1995 Atlanta swept us and cost us a playoff berth.
1996 They swept us again.
1997 Another sweep and a six game winning streak.
1998 Another sweep to make it an eight game winning streak.
1999 Another sweep including a 35 – 12 pounding. 10 game streak.
2001 Split with us costing us another playoff berth.
2002 They swept us and cost us another playoff berth.
2004 Split with them and cost us another playoff berth.
2005 Swept us, including a 36 – 17 drubbing.
2008 They split with and cost another winning season and another playoff berth

I hate Atlanta more than any other team, including the Cowgirls. Now they stand in our way to an undefeated season. We still owe them for that 62 – 7 beating in ‘73. I haven’t forgotten. Maybe this week this team can avenge that game.

Ajun Cajun exiled to Charlotte. I miss Mardi Gras and the Jazz Fest so much I could cry.

by Ajun Cajun on Dec 9, 2009 12:05 AM CST reply actions

See #3

by David. on Dec 9, 2009 1:48 AM CST up reply actions

Too many to List

So many reasons, too few words to express them.

Home boys, Lyman White & Wallace Francis are 2 of them.
Never forget the Hell Mary’s either. That term was invented against the Saints!!!! Not a good feeling!!!!!

What happened to the Skins last weekend, has been happening to US for 40+ years, so I dont feel bad for winning one like that, hopefully we can win the next 7 just like it!!!!!!!

RAZOOOOOOO the dirty, ugly, sorry, fowl smelling, crappy, and trashy birds!!!!!

by Big Bru on Dec 9, 2009 9:29 AM CST reply actions

I only need ONE reason:

They’re the Falcons.

(…no offense to Dave the Falconer, who’s OK, for a Falcons fan….)

Irony: An atheist Saints fan.

by GSO Saints Fan on Dec 9, 2009 9:58 AM CST reply actions

Easy-Mike Vick. The ‘Cons never really bothered me until the ESPN hype machine shoved overrated Mike Vick down our throats for years. Of course it didn’t help that the Saints were basically on a slow downward spiral during the early part of this decade.

by howarjo1943 on Dec 9, 2009 12:25 PM CST reply actions

I actually prided myself...

In not placing Vick on this list. It sort of speaks volumes about how I feel about him, by not even mentioning him. That said-I’ll mention him if the Eagles happen to show up again.

by David. on Dec 9, 2009 3:32 PM CST reply actions