Tag: Atlanta Falcons
Who should buy the Atlanta Hawks?
Learning that the team suddenly is for sale got us thinking about possible suitors.
Behind enemy lines: Being a Saints fan in Atlanta
Atlanta, I have come to confess my crimes to you: I prefer Pepsi to Coke, I fly American over Delta, and most importantly, I am a fan of the New Orleans Saints. So, of course, I found myself at the Saints-Falcons game yesterday amidst the Georgia Dome’s crimson sea, a traitor to my current home.
Arthur Blank: It was important for the Falcons to stay Downtown
If the Buckhead crowd that packed Maggiano’s to hear editor-in-chief Steve Fennessy interview Arthur Blank at 7 a.m. this morning seemed a bit weary, it’s probably because many Falcons fans were up late last night watching the third episode of Hard Knocks, the HBO series that is currently documenting the NFL franchise’s preseason.
Mayor Reed to Braves: You’re my favorite team–I just can’t give you enough tax dollars
At today's press conference, Mayor Kasim Reed announced that the sixty-acre tract currently occupied by Turner Field and acres of asphalt will be developed into housing for middle-income residents.
A $1 billion stadium and $104 million quarterback won’t buy you victory
The curse of being young is that you think you’ll be young forever, and then one day you wake up and realize you’re not anymore. That’s a bad day, and sort of what I imagine the Falcons are feeling right now. Recall that last year they beat the best team in football (the Seattle Seahawks) to advance to the NFC championship, only to squander a seventeen-point lead against San Francisco, which stopped the Falcons at the 49ers own ten-yard-line with the game on the line.
What everyone’s saying about the Falcons stadium design ideas
It is official: the $35 million design contract for the new Falcons stadium has been awarded to 360 Architecture of Kansas City, and from the design ideas already floated, it looks like Arthur Blank and the team will be getting a statement building alright. Just what will be stated is debatable.
We’re No. 1! According to us!
Yet to those who root for pro sports (and, I hope, those who play them) the night felt unmistakably like a consolation prize. We were told repeatedly how lucky we are to be here in this world-class sports town. We were reminded that the New York media was against us. We were so showered with love and self-serving praise that you almost expected, say, a Boston sports fan to leave behind his seven titles in the last twelve years so he could come down and buy season tickets to half-empty Turner Field.
Let’s give $200 mil to Spanx instead of the Falcons
Forbes magazine’s much-anticipated 2013 Swimsuit Issue list of the world’s billionaires was published yesterday. Mexican telecommunications giant and all-around biz whiz Carlos Slim tops the roster with an estimated $73 billion fortune. Like my dad always said, “You’ll know you’ve made it when your next $100,000,000 goes to the right of the decimal point.”
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