Saturday Six Pack 4/10/10: Happiest War Rooms Edition

and I can see you pointed this out as well

And from what I know, that person either lives in Atlanta (although like you just mentioned residency in Atlanta doesn’t make you a Falcons fan – with the same success it can make you a Vick fan), or has spent time in Atlanta in the past – work or school (like myself).

The latter represent a smaller fraction of Falcons fans, but they also happen to be among the most active on the Falcoholic (and that fits the psychology perfectly – if you’re a Falcons fan and live far away from Atlanta, whom else could you share your affection with?).

True, there are some Falcon fans who never lived in Atlanta or Georgia, and became fans of this team for other reason, but clearly, that’s one in a thousand. but this category will definitely grow over time, and some kid, say, in New England who’d grow up watching the Patriots will actually start following the Falcons and finally become a Falcoholic.

Those people treat their pro teams like &$!@. Bobcats, Panthers and Hurricanes are doomed no matter what. Y’all should have seen how they handled the Hornets. It’s much the same attitude we have towards the Thrashers. They do love the Braves though.

Check out New York. We have Hawks and Braves stuff going on. Other places not so much.

the spoils for the winner of the annual football games between the Atlanta Falcons and Charlotte Panthers.

But it’s in Charlotte, which is close to the SC border. So…..yeah.

…/sarcasm

except Dallas, which sits between UT, TTech, and A&M and has Baylor in house.

But I do wonder if it’s going to take one of the Falcons, Hawks, or Braves, making a little noise before it happens. Our college athletics though, are incomparable to any of the other cities. Way more important to our fan base than anything in Chicago or NY. L.A. has USC and Dallas has the Texas schools, but you’d be hard-pressed to find anything that shuts down ATL more than football on Saturdays.

Between Jason Heyward for the Braves, Matt Ryan, and even a little of the Josh Smith/Al Horford buzz with the Hawks, we may have enough stars to swing our own ESPN website (fortunately I’ll have graduated from law school by then and won’t be totally distracted).

Not even Fan Voting would wind up that inaccurate.

Cause whoever did those rankings honustly needs to give up their job because they don’t know a thing about football.

I’m not kidding, I don’t care if your Marshall Faulk, give up your job.

No football team here but you mostly see skins, ravens, cowboys, or steeler fans. I seldom run into other falcon fans but I hold us down tho. I hav atlanta falcon everything! When ppl see me they kno wat team I like. Would be nice 2 hav a loud and viscous stadium environment for home games tho

I actually saw some Matt Ryan gear selling better than Browns/Bengals stuff.