The Scale of Falconliness, Defensive Tackles Mini-Week: Travis Hall

by Jason Kirk on Aug 18, 2010 1:00 PM EDT in The Scale of Falconliness

Who's the ultimate Falcon? And who's the ultimate anti-Falcon? That's what we're going to find out with our summer project: the Scale of Falconliness. We'll rate former Falcons on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most Falconly. The rule: minimum of three seasons with the Falcons for coaches, five seasons for players.

Though he bounced around the defensive line, today's contestant spent most of his time at DT. Your correspondent's favorite Travis Hall moment featured him bellowing "AWW, HORSES***", with maximum lip-readability, on national TV after being dubiously flagged for punching somebody in the eye or something.

Travis Hall, Defensive Lineman (1995 - 2004)

Falconly

Unfalconly

Ten years and 134 games as a Falcon, both good for 12th all time and first among defensive linemen.
41.5 career sacks, third on the team's all-time list. Turned in at least four sacks in six of his nine years as a starter.
During his best season, 1997, he collected 10.5 sacks and made more tackles* than any other NFL player with double-digit sacks.
334 career tackles, the most recorded for any Falcons defensive lineman*.
Founded a fitness equipment company that claims to be based in Norcross, Georgia and Lawrenceville, Georgia, all on the same contact page.
Inspired someone to create this image.
Lives in Duluth, Georgia, instead of his native lands in Alaska.

Played his final year for the 49ers.

* Tackles weren't recorded until after the careers of legends like Claude Humphrey and John Zook. Also, the tackle numbers for Moe Gardner and Tony Casillas got ridiculously inflated somehow, so if you go look at the career stats you'll think to yourself, "wow, Tony Casillas was the greatest defensive tackle of all time," and then you'll remember, "no, he wasn't." Seriously, there's no way Tony Casillas ever piled up 150 tackles in a single season -- he probably didn't approach that number in any two seasons. Not even Reggie White ever came all that close to 150 tackles. Curtis Lofton barely broke 100 last year, and he gets to run around instead of facing fat guy double teams. Of course, questioning the Falcons' late-1980s tackle record-keeping calls into question some of Jessie Tuggle's achieveme-LA LA LA NOT LISTENING.

Current standings after the jump:

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How Falconly is Travis Hall?

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A really underappreciated player

I gave him an 8.

by Dave Choate on Aug 18, 2010 1:11 PM EDT reply actions

Gave him an 8, too...

I really like him, but I couldn’t justify higher than an 8…

"You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us." - Chipper Jones

by Jman781 on Aug 18, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions

haha

i remember playing madden and DOMINATING with T.Hall

by Erihury on Aug 18, 2010 1:39 PM EDT reply actions

I did the same thing on madden.

Funny how he always seemed to get more sacks than Kerney.

by thisistherevolt on Aug 18, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

was going to give him an 8, but...

I gave him a 10 just because he inspired this part:

“Of course, questioning the Falcons’ late-1980s tackle record-keeping calls into question some of Jessie Tuggle’s achieveme-LA LA LA NOT LISTENING”

I have no vampire experience, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got there, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.

by Heath13 on Aug 18, 2010 2:29 PM EDT reply actions

I might have heard of him

But I don’t really remember him
But geez that many more tackles than another HOF, and he doesn’t get recognized.
The NFL is so unfair.
Maybe Football OUTSIDERS would have recognized this outsider first.

Perhaps, I must go through Hell to get to Heaven......................if there is one.

by brotherbrown on Aug 18, 2010 2:50 PM EDT reply actions

if I'm not mistaken, he was the one with the bleachy spikey hair!

and if I am, he should have changed it so I’m not…

I have no vampire experience, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got there, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.

by Heath13 on Aug 18, 2010 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions

8. He was, like, the only player from Alaska in the NFL at the time.

When he started, he had long blonde hair hanging out of his helmet. He may have spiked it at the end of his tenure.

Isn’t it strange that each of the candidates’ results form a bell curve? Things that make you say, “Hmmmmmmm.”

How many more days, Lord, must I walk through the wilderness?

by AnOldBird on Aug 18, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions

A BIRD CURVE?

Excuse my language, ma'am, but that damn Dodd's gonna beat my butt today. -- Bear Bryant, November 1962

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by Jason Kirk on Aug 18, 2010 8:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs

Yes. A bird curve based upon standard normal distribution.

One is a standard deviant. That’s everything I know about statistics.

How many more days, Lord, must I walk through the wilderness?

by AnOldBird on Aug 18, 2010 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Sounds like a Falcon Swoop and Kill.

and rec’d too
Jason you genius!

Perhaps, I must go through Hell to get to Heaven......................if there is one.

by brotherbrown on Aug 19, 2010 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions

8 for me

a good player while he was here. sorry he had to play for the whiners though.

Life is a garden. Dig it!

by Hardcore Falcon on Aug 19, 2010 7:38 AM EDT reply actions

Travis Hall was a Superhero

After he left, our Birds were without a player of his stature until Tony Gonzalez emerged from the Space Capsule from the planet Vegan.

He dominated all who threatened the Mormon Nation.

He did not have to play hurt… he hurt OTHER players (well, except in 2002). Excluding his rookie year where he appeared in only one game, he averaged 14.7 starts over 9 seasons. That’s right… almost all missed games came in 2002… and he more than paid for that by missing the Playoff win at Lambeau.

He gives the kids AWESOMENESS at Halloween.

I hear tell that Saints QB’s still tell their kids that, if they misbehave, Travis Hall will come sack them at night.

by Mnemonic on Aug 19, 2010 9:59 AM EDT reply actions

An awesome player lost in the annals because he played for the Falcons.

If he had those numbers on the Giants, they couldn’t get him to the HOF fast enough.

A true Falcon. I gave him a 9.

by Duff_Man on Aug 19, 2010 11:06 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

8...

A solid 8 for me. He was one of the players I always pulled for in the early days of my fandom. I’ve always been a defensive kind of guy. I don’t think they get quite enough appreciation as offensive guys.

by XBEARDX on Aug 19, 2010 2:16 PM EDT reply actions