With a win Sunday over the Buffalo Bills, the Falcons find themselves in an unfamiliar situation entering the final week of the season: A chance to secure back-to-back winning seasons in the last game of a given year… With a winning streak.
(Who says the Tampa Bay game isn’t important)?
Many times the Birds have tried to find year-to-year success in the form of consecutive winning seasons. But rarely have they been this close.
Atlanta needed to win one of it’s last two games in 1972 to record a winning season after a 7-6-1 mark the previous year. Instead, the Falcons lost two straight to close out the year 7-7.
Veteran fans surely remember the playoff, 12-4 season of 1980. The Falcons were poised to record another winning season in 1981, sitting at 7-6 in the season’s final month. But a three-game losing closed the year and shot the dream.
More recently, the Falcons had a chance to back up an NFC Championship Game appearance with a winning season. Sadly, an 11-5 mark in 2005 was followed by another three-game losing streak to close a year and the Falcons finished at 8-8.
It also marked the most recent time the team, with a chance to break the streak, entered the final game a game above .500.
What will happen this year?
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We can totally do it! You just gotta believe. The Falcons have broken my heart more times than I care to remember but this team under the leadership of Coach Smitty is showing some real grit. Let’s get it done birds!
YEAH LETS!!!!!!!!FALCONS GO GET IT!!!!
during the offseason lets pick up jason avant (great 2nd wide receiver).
and use jenkins at the slot.
We will make history next Sunday by posting back to back winning seasons. Once this has passed the Falcons will eventually become one of the NFL elite teams.We all all the pieces except for the left corner position an another big play slot receiver. 2010 will be our year and we will sweep the Aints , Yucannerneers and the Carolina Kitty Cats. Go Falcons!
MIKE SMITH AND THOMAS DIMITROFF PLEASE GET OSI UMENYIORA
Hey smitty lets get terrell owens he would be a another good target deep for Matt Ryan. and another left corner, marcus stroud if he is available
no offence lesley, terrell owens would be the worst possible thing to happen to the falcons, he is a lazy, self absorbed idiot, and would do nothing for the team.
falcons rule and there gonna kick the crap outof tampa next week.