By Facebook's Count, Falcons Are The 29th Most Popular NFL Team

for us to know who the bandwagons fans are after we win the super bowl next year.

P.S. I still don’t believe that half the people in my school were saints fans before last year.

I love the Falcons and I am a diehard fan, but I can’t be delusional about the fact that our fan base is filled with an unusually large fairweather element that is quickly disinterested. As fanbases go, I’d have to agree that we are toward the bottom in terms of commitment level and popularity w/in the city. It pains me to admit that, but I must.

Now, there are valid reasons for it. First, few fan bases have suffered the way we have, and the franchise has a history (until recently) of putting a terrible product on the field. That’s not something you overcome in a couple of seasons – Atlanta is a very jaded city when it comes to pro sports. Second, we live in a city that is fueled more by college sports than professional sports. Third, Atlanta is an amazing city, but the downside of that is that it means a ton of people who live here who aren’t from here and consequently aren’t fans of the team.

I can’t think of another city in the NFL for which those factors apply, including places like Tennessee and Carolina. I hope things turn around here and I’m proud to be an Atlantan, but the lack of support for pro sports here is not something i’m proud of. It’s a knock on our city that I wish didn’t hold as much truth behind it as it does.

I always considered the Falcons as a team that people simply didn’t give a damn about. As in, they don’t know we exist. Indifference would put us in the middle of the pack, wouldn’t it? This just sounds like a hate crime.

I don’t care if I’m the only fan of this team, I don’t care if the media doesn’t drool over us. Al Davis is a senile crypt keeper of an NFL owner but he was right about one thing “just win baby”. Admittedly, I came to this team because of Vick. I was a Florida State fan with no favorite pro team until the year we beat the hokies in the championship game, then the falcons drafted Vick. I was a braves fan, half my family is from Georgia, I loved the colors… Maybe not the best criteria for becoming a fan but the pieces fell into place and in the short amount of time I have been a fan of this team I have been through extreme highs and extreme lows. I’m still here. I stumbled across this site while googling draft info about three years ago. I watched from the shadows never joining or commenting for a while, then finally joined. I love this team unconditionally now and you guys (and any ladies we have in the house) feel like family to me. We may not always see eye to eye but we all support this team in our own way and we all want what’s best for the team even if we disagree on the means to get there. We could be the 33rd most popular team for all I care, it will only make it sweeter when we finally bring hat Lombardi trophy to the dirty south and watch all the reactionist “experts” come flocking to us like an oasis in an endless desert. We don’t need any more fans than what we have here on these boards and the ones that are lucky enough to be able to attend the games. Wether anyone else knows it or not we are the future of the NFL and the greatest sports franchise in the world.

Sorry for rambling on, I just had a lot of pent up football energy to get off my chest. LETS GO FALCONS!

this sounds more like an advertisement. i use facebook to speak with my friends overseas. i do not put alot of likes or dislikes. phishing anyone? i’m not interested in all the email that begins to come when i give out that info. i get most of my falcons news here & i like this site. i don’t believe that the measure of a fan is touting my beliefs to the world. i love the game & anyone who has met me, he/she knows i’m a falcs fan. i understand with the cba, there is not much to talk about right now.