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Falcons dominate Packers, advance to Super Bowl LI
NFL ^ | January 22, 2017 | Conor Orr

Posted on 01/22/2017 4:26:50 PM PST by Trump20162020

For the first time since 1998, the Atlanta Falcons are going to the Super Bowl. Thanks to a beautifully dominant 44-21 beat down of the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at the Georgia Dome, Matt Ryan and Co. left no question as to which team was best.

After Green Bay's 11-second, three-and-out drive to start the second half, one which included a pair of drops from tight end Jared Cook, Falcons head coach Dan Quinn was caught in a moment of rare emotion on the sidelines. He was smiling ear-to-ear before snapping back into the typical blank coaching façade we've come to expect. In that moment, he likely confirmed his brightest wishes during halftime. The Falcons had bludgeoned the Packers for 30 minutes already, and the pounding would continue through the second half.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: atlantafalcons; falcons; football; greenbaypackers; nfl; packers; superbowl
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1 posted on 01/22/2017 4:26:50 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Imagine the shock in Atlanta when 7 million people realize they have an NFL franchise.


2 posted on 01/22/2017 4:29:20 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: relictele

WHAT A BEATING!!!!

Beat Rodgers et. al. like a redheaded stepchild!


3 posted on 01/22/2017 4:31:52 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: relictele
I have to deal with an insufferable Packers fan who never ceases to talk about being an "owner" with his 1 share. It will be a fun Monday morning for me 😁
5 posted on 01/22/2017 4:35:21 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: Trump20162020

All during Rogers loss commercials of his his endorsements played constantly


6 posted on 01/22/2017 4:36:39 PM PST by Sybeck1
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To: Trump20162020
Pats vs Dirty Birds.Ring #5 for TB12....most for any QB.And he's a Trump supporter.
7 posted on 01/22/2017 4:37:20 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: relictele

This is so boring. I turned it of with Kapernick and never came back. I realized that the sport is way out of racial balance and they are all on steroids. I hate this professional sport now.It is totally corrupted by political crap.


8 posted on 01/22/2017 4:37:27 PM PST by WENDLE (This is the greatest President since George Washington!! It's HERE!!)
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To: relictele

I was born the year the Falcons franchise started in Atlanta (I’m an Atlanta native). I became a fan at the age of 11 and suffered MANY LONG YEARS in being a Falcon fan. Alas, I had my complete and utter fill of the NFL last year, and have not watched a single game this year. I honestly could not care less that they are in the Super Bowl - not after Beyonce, “hands up”, pink-everything in October, Arthur Blank threatening to move the franchise if he didn’t get a new stadium (when there’s nothing wrong with the Georgia Dome), and finally, when our cowardly legislators bowed down to the NFL when Goodell threatened to withhold a future Super Bowl in the city if legislators passed a religious-liberty bill. Nope. Done.


9 posted on 01/22/2017 4:39:17 PM PST by UGA2014
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To: Trump20162020

Falcons dominate Packers, advance to Super Bowl LI

Why would Birds attack Homosexuals?? and what is in a Super Bowl?


10 posted on 01/22/2017 4:39:17 PM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: goldbux
Paragraph 1: . . . which team was better. [not best]

Comparing two teams here. "Which team was best" is correct when comparing > 2 teams or items.

11 posted on 01/22/2017 4:40:53 PM PST by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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To: dp0622
To me, Aaron Rodgers and Paul Ryan always resembled each other.

Plus I'm a Vikings fan. So, while I remember the Falcons keeping the 15-1 Vikings out of the Super Bowl the first year the Vikes had Randy Moss, I'm also glad they beat the Packers.

12 posted on 01/22/2017 4:42:49 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: eyeamok

Well we certainly know who Rush picked in his Environmentalist Whacko football pick.


13 posted on 01/22/2017 4:43:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: WENDLE

Thanks for sharing....


14 posted on 01/22/2017 4:46:22 PM PST by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: Trump20162020

Other than the defense, the offense and the special teams, the rest of GB made the trip.


15 posted on 01/22/2017 4:50:57 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: grey_whiskers

Randy Moss :) The good old days.


16 posted on 01/22/2017 4:53:54 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m even more glad now of my decision to write off the NFL this year.
Being a 50 year Packer fan, this would have upset me terribly.
Having not watched any football this year, I’m unfazed.


17 posted on 01/22/2017 4:53:55 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: Trump20162020

Good I hate the Packers.


18 posted on 01/22/2017 4:55:00 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Abbeville Conservative

RISE UP!!!!!!!


19 posted on 01/22/2017 5:00:52 PM PST by patro
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To: Trump20162020

Hey,Dirty Birds....frying pan...fire....

20 posted on 01/22/2017 5:01:06 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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