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Atlanta Falcon Football

June 30, 1965, will always be remembered as one of both end and a beginning in the history of Atlanta Professional Sports. To this day the Falcons was born and began his story apartments in the National Football League.

Everything that had happened previously used for the immediate task put a team on the field. A $ 18 million stadium to play in was under construction (Atlanta Fulton County Stadium), but as an "expansion" teams every detail had to be treated!

Rankin Smith, a young insurance executive, was the majority owner of the Falcons.

Virtually unknown to the general public, Smith immediately endeared himself to fans of the sport asking a rhetorical choice question in a press conference after acquisition franchise: "Not all adult males in the United States want to have their own soccer team?" Not all American adult males have the means to swing a deal, but it was comforting to hear that a man can dream as any other.

On the first day there were over 1,000 calls telephone to the offices of Smith for tickets. In August, a competition was completed which led to the nickname of Falcons. Several people suggested the name "Hawks" in the contest, but a school teacher near Griffin, GA (Ms. Julia Elliott), was selected the winner because of his reasons: "The falcon is proud and dignified with great courage and fight. Never fall prey. It is deadly and has a tradition of great athletes. "

In mid-December, Smith had signed the college player football's most coveted in the nation, Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis. On Christmas Eve, when the Falcons cut short a ticket 54-days with little promotion, a new record in the National Football League was established fertilizer sold by a new team (45,000). I was one of the 45,000!

Green Bay Packer, assistant Norb Hacker was hired as the first head coach and immediately began sifting through a huge list of NFL players available for the expansion team Atlanta by other teams in the league.

Three men were elected from each club in the NFL and 42 of these formed the core of the list. Added to this group were newcomers drawn, dozens of free agents and a few players from a variety of jobs. In total, Hecker and his colleagues were faced with the evaluation of more than 130 men from July to September, during his first training camp in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

On August 27, in Columbia, South Carolina, the Falcons recorded their first victory beating the San Francisco 49ers, 24-17, in a preseason game. This marked the beginning of a frustrating and often "less exciting" story of the Falcons Atlanta.

In over 35 years of ownership of the family of Smith only the Falcons had "very brief" moments of success! When Rankin Smith father died in October 1997, his family maintained control of the Falcons. The team has had a less than stellar record. According to Rankin Smith property, the team won a title division in 1980, and reached the playoffs five times. The only "real success" that the Falcons made during Smith's property was under the direction of head coach Dan Reeves, the Falcons franchise captured its first NFC championship following the 1998 regular season. January 31 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami FL, Denver Broncos beat the Falcons 34-17.

On December 6, 2001, a new chapter in the history of the Atlanta Falcons started! That day, Arthur M. Blank, co-founder of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached an agreement to buy the team. A new era begins!

With the crisis and tragedies of recent years, the Falcons are in the midst of another "new beginning." Gone are Michael Vick and his legal problems. Back Bobby Petrino has been, and his "coaching style university" which had a very poor "trial" in the NFL. However, there is a new attitude of the Falcons and their fans. The fate of the Falcons are back in the hands of a man named Smith. New coach Mike Smith. Along with the new general manager Thomas Dimtroff, Smith has built a team around a veteran defense, a number of strategic firms free agency and a rookie quarterback, Matt Ryan. With guts and guile of the Falcons have become to page of their past and are rising again in the NFC South. Watch these Falcons ... The future looks very bright!

Isaac Odim - All-American RB, 2008 highlights

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