The Bird Babe

By Dale

November 4, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Birdbabe,

How many people showed up for the game?

By Falcons are Losers

November 4, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

Did anyone see the game? LOL!!!! I’ll bet Harrington was a true ‘Leader’. Yee hah!

By The Bird Babe

November 4, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this

Dale,

Not many, but the Dome hasn’t been close to full for most games this season. There are always too many fans from the visiting team.

By Billy

November 4, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

Let’s hear it for the pocket passer. Yahoo!!!

By stendec

November 4, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

The Falcons beat an injury-depleted 49er team by four points? At home? Print up those Super Bowl tickets! Maybe they can schedule the Belinda School Of The Blind next.

By woodie

November 4, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

There goes a good draft choice…

By CDS

November 4, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this

Alex Smith sucks worse than Harrington does. That’s why we won the game. Now we’re going to lose out on a #1 pick.

By Famuan

November 4, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

Well…..fan apathy…a mainstay of Falcons history has returned. THis team could win out the rest of the season and you still won’t get a full Dome…..and you can have the draft picks #1, #2 and #3….and you still wont get a full Dome. Its not hard to understand…Atlanta is just not the type of city that feels compelled to support a sports team just because they win or just because they’re HERE. Its a shame that its come to this for that little point to be made clearer…but I still see too many who stupidly think that the mantra “winning cures everything” applies to this city…it doesn’t.

By stendec

November 4, 2007 5:39 PM | Link to this

Atlanta fans WILL support a consistent winner! The Braves are an example. When management does not give a damn (Falcons, Hawks) then fans lose interest. The Thrashers are making an effort to build solid fan base. I have NO IDEA what Hawks are doing. Falcons have given up this season. Are fans expected to support teams which have already quit? I THINK NOT!

By RA

November 4, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this

Okay, first of all SorryDogs, that was a sorry commit. A comment like that makes me think that you’re like that insensitive child watching two challenged children fight with each other, pointing and laughing hoping one of them gets hurt. Really, bad analogy.

As for the Falcons, they won, everything else is negotiable. Seriously though, is there anyone left that thinks this team didn’t need Michael Vick?

By midnite

November 4, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this

Bunch of negative jerks. A win is a win. Your bad attitudes are why you are a bunch of losers. I was at the game and there was a decent crowd. Not many opposing fans at all, I don’t where Bird Brain came up that junk. Hats off to Zimmer and the defense, they won the game for us. Harrington sucks but he’s all we have now. Why don’t you losers buy a ticket and quit your be-otchin and moaning, let me remind ya’ll that your fallen idol QB is going to prison next month, he is the real loser. Way to go Falcons!

By Falcons are Losers

November 4, 2007 6:15 PM | Link to this

RA,

The answer to your question is no. After years of bashing this young man and building up the flunky on the sideline as the hero, Atlanta has not accepted the obvious; Vick was the team. Atlanta has traditionally refused to accept reality on certain issues. It was almost as if they continued to believe the earth is flat. That rhetoric played well for years in places like Alpharetta. But those same #7 haters are no where to be found. They weren’t even football fans. They merely claim to know how leaders should look.

By Famuan

November 4, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

midnite, A decent crowd?? The guys on 790am are clowning the crowd right now. There was NO traffic. The same 30,000 that went to Fulton County Stadium are the ones going now….unfortunately the Georgia Dome seats 70,000…..so now that the “vick fans” are gone….cold hard reality has set in that those fans afforded you a sell-out…it afforded you some national prominence….it afforded you no TV blackouts since 12/23/2001…and 8 games into the post-Vick era and blackouts have already commenced?? LOLOL!!!!

By BlackoutFan

November 4, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

Serious question: Why didn’t PeTA or some other animal group help out Aurthur Blank and buy those tickets? Why didn’t they scratch his back like he scratched theirs? He is gonna learn, he bought the team during the Vick years, apparently, he didn’t pay attention during the NORMAL FALCONS years and I predict, A.V. (After Vick) is gonna be far worse than B.V. (Before Vick)

By Midday

November 4, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this

Midnite still believes there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

By 8-8 would be great

November 4, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

Oh the shame…..can’t even get 25 comments on the bird babe blog after the game. Has it hit yet that the Falcons really were a one-man-show? Good-bye MNF….good-bye national games….good-bye television at all…..hello 1977.

By stendec

November 4, 2007 7:02 PM | Link to this

Petrino supposed to be point producer! Harrington not getting job done. Put in Redman. Put Dunn back there. Shudder. Do SOMETHING to shake things up! Get fans interested. Like I said, when a win FEELS like a loss, something is terribly wrong!

By woodie

November 4, 2007 7:25 PM | Link to this

Great game between the Pats & Colts…Go Pats

By stendec

November 4, 2007 7:50 PM | Link to this

From the BIG mouth of DeA++hole Hall: “…look(ing) down our schedule, we(?) feel like we can win every one of them(?). Obviously, the Thanksgiving Day one (vs. Indianapolis) is going to be a little bit tougher than the others (you think?), but we feel like we can definitely go out there and compete with everybody left on our (schedule). What is HE smoking? A slim home win over an injury-depleted team which tanked it. Colt Peyton Manning will throw as many TD passes against the porous Falcon secondary as he wants to! I always knew DH was a talentless thug. I never knew he was a complete ignoramus, too! Live and learn.

By Weberuno

November 4, 2007 7:58 PM | Link to this

I don’t know where the fans are, we have the same mark 2-6 for the first eight games of this year, as we did for the last eight games of the last 2 seasons and that was with Vick. I don’t care if you are white or black he flipped us off and admittedly quit on us during a game. Why does anyone wish we had him back. I’m ready to have a team in this town, not a bunch of self centered superstars who are just worried about going to Hawaii for a pointless game.

By woodman

November 4, 2007 8:03 PM | Link to this

Yes the Falcons were a one man show. Why can’t you people see that was the problem? You don’t win championships with a one man show. Who cares how many MNF’s and crappy fans you get when can’t make it to the big game? He ate up all of our money and we couldn’t afford to get the kind of support that Dan Reeves got back in ‘98. There was always a chance of a great play or an unexpected win, but there was NEVER a chance of a championship the way the team was put together during Vick’s time here. Maybe Petrino can put together a real team now. Blackouts suck, but they mean I can see the game in person if I want to. You get what you pay for Mr. Blanks. How much did you spend on Vick again?

By FatAlbert

November 4, 2007 8:08 PM | Link to this

The Falcons are a losing team with or without MV7. Only difference is we’ll get a better draft pick this year that we’ll squander on a mediocre quarterback to add to the mix of Harrington and Limpwich. Great to get a win today, though! Keep it up

By woodie

November 4, 2007 8:11 PM | Link to this

Vick filled the seats up , but Manning and Brady fill them up also and win Super Bowls

By midnite

November 4, 2007 8:12 PM | Link to this

The reality of the situation is this: We put our trust in Vick and he let the Falcons and the fans down, shame on us for trusting an undependable person with no upbringing. You losers keep on supporting him. Its not the Falcons fault, or anyone elses. Vick put us in this situation. I was there, the Falcons won today and we have 8 more games this year. Buy a ticket you bunch of whining jerks or shut your yappers.

By stendec

November 4, 2007 8:14 PM | Link to this

Falcons are INDIVIDUALS! It is Peyton Manning AND the Indy Colts. Tom Brady AND the NE Pats. It is DeA++hole Hall, Algae Crumpledupagain, Joey Hopelesslylostagain, Joe Blow My Own Horn, Keith I Was Once A Pro Bowler Brooking plus a host of other disposable egomaniacs. It is about THEM - NOT THE TEAM! I like Dunn. He is a nice guy. But Norwood is the more talented runner. I am so sick of seeing Dunn run blindly up the middle for a yard that I want to hang Petrino. NOT IN EFFIGY! Did Redman die? He was at one point the backup QB. He was shafted for Leftover. I would much rather see him than Harrington! Redman is an unknown commodity. I already know too damn well what clueless Harrington is (more aptly, is not) capable of! I do not give a rat’s A++ if he completes 90 percent of his passes. Only TDs and wins matter at this level! FGs do not cut it even though the Falcons are undeservedly blessed with the finest placekicker on the planet.

By Famuan

November 4, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this

I’m just waiting for the Falcons 365 stores to have their final liquidation sales. All of you who still think this team will be just fine now that you’re back to TV blackouts and 40,000 people at the game, and out of the playoffs by Nov, keep that hope alive..its cute! LMAO!

By Half full

November 4, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this

These bloggers are more pathetic than this football team. Same lame people saying the same lame things. If there is anyone in Atlanta that knows anything about football, please let me know because this really is sad. Hope that I can wade through most of this BS to read it.

By Aussie Bird

November 4, 2007 9:56 PM | Link to this

The disappointing feeling I began having after 2003 was that our team was built around an exceptional athlete who was not a great leader. It was a catch 22 because he was so exciting but just not grasping the game at the elevated level required by the NFL. He could no longer just outrun and outsling everybody like he almost did to FSU in 1999. Yet we made him our franchise player and were stuck with poor leadership because he sold tickets. It may be a blessing in disguise to have this happen now so we can rebuild our hapless team around a true leader. Better than going 7-9 year after year hoping for something that was not going to occur.

By by truth speaker JOSH M.

November 4, 2007 10:31 PM | Link to this

hey everybody the FALCONS WON ANOTHER GAME I HEARD BECAUSE I COULDN’T SEE IT AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN’T BELIEVE THIS NON SENSE
I LOOKED AT THE STATS AND JOEY HARRINGTON HAD THE SAME OLD LOSING GAME I THINK HE IS COMFORTABLE BEING A LOSER I KNOW I KNOW ITS THE OFFENSIVE LINE FAULT NO ONE EVER SAID THAT WHEN VICK WAS BEHIND THE SAME LINE
YOU KNOW WHAT

ALL SEASON TICKET HOLDERS THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HEAD OFFICE

YOU ALL JUST GOT PUNK’D

By by truth speaker JOSH M.

November 4, 2007 10:39 PM | Link to this

I HAVE A QUESTION HOW MUCH DOES IT COST FOR THE HIGHLIGHT TICKETS ONLY WE KNOW WE OWE THIS GAME TO ONE MAN AND ONE MAN ALONE SO ON BEHALF OF THE FALCONS ORGANIZATION WE WANT TO SAY THANKS TO FRANK GORE FOR NOT WASTING HIS TIME OR ENERGY PLAYING US TODAY BECAUSE WE CAN SCORE OVER 17 POINTS A GAME THANKS AGAIN

By by truth speaker JOSH M.

November 4, 2007 10:55 PM | Link to this

AUSSIE BIRD DO ONE FAVOR NAME ONE QB THAT IS IN THE LEAGUE THAT HAS HAD SUCCESS ON A TEAM WITH MULTIPLE COACHES YOU CAN EVERY QB THAT ARE HAVING A GOOD YEAR HAS HAD A GREAT O-LINE FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS NOT ATLANTA YOU TAKE VICK STATS OFF OUR RUSHING YARDS AND WE MIGHT BE 29TH ON THE LIST AND THATS PUSHING IT BETTER QUESTION OTHER THAN THE YEAR AFTER DAN JIM WHO EVER THE F.. MORA HASN’T PRODUCE A WINNING OFFENSE MAYBE AVERAGE ALSO NAME A ABOVE AVERAGE WR FOR VICK TO THROW IT TO AND BEFORE YOU SAY IT CRUMPLER IS A TE SO DO US ALL A FAVOR A SHUT UP YOU WAS JUST AS AMAZED AS WE WAS FOR THE YEARS HE WAS HERE HE GAVE THIS FRANCHISE AND FANS HOPE NOW THE HOPE IS GONE
P.S. YOU NOTICE THAT JAKE PLUMMER OR ANY OF THE OTHER QB’S DIDN’T RUSH TO THE MANAGEMENT TO GET SIGNED ASK YOURSELF WHY

By stendec

November 4, 2007 10:56 PM | Link to this

Hire hungry athletes that have a burning desire to win! Stock the team with men who would rather drink acid than lose. Utilize hard guys who do not take losing lightly. Play men who live-and-breathe the game itself. Athletes who take pride in their work. Only two present Falcons fit these categories. Cut the rest. Execute the rest. Put the rest in a home somewhere for untalented athletes. Nobody cares! Recruit from the taxi squad. The streets. Anywhere that winners thrive. Could it possibly be any worse? MERRY CHRISTMAS!

By Vick Supporter

November 4, 2007 11:22 PM | Link to this

No Vick = Losing Season

By cb

November 5, 2007 12:49 AM | Link to this

A win is a win—-even against the depleted 49ers. The playcalling was once again very questionable. Those 1st down runs that garner maybe 2 yards continue to confound me. It’s not the fact that the plays are not successful for the most part but the fact that they are so PREDICTABLE. Zimmer called a good game on the defensive side. Leftwich needs to get back ASAP—-Harrington is just not a good quarterback. It’s frustrating to have a quarterback who can’t throw downfield!!!

By Najeh Davenpoop

November 5, 2007 12:55 AM | Link to this

I’m glad to see the Falcons pull out a win. Yes, the 49ers are an awful team missing their best player, but when you are an awful team yourself, a victory over another awful team is something to be proud of. Nice to see Warrick Dunn dust himself off and show us why he gets the majority of the carries (of course it helps that Jerious Norwood got injured). Unfortunately, this win does more to hurt the team’s draft chances than it does to benefit them this season.

By Najeh Davenpoop

November 5, 2007 1:11 AM | Link to this

Aussie Bird, your observations are completely on point about #7 not being able to outrun and outsling other teams in the NFL. However this is not a problem only for #7, but for nearly every scrambling QB to enter the league. Donovan McNabb took six years to post a completion percentage over 60%. Steve Young took five years to top 54% completions. Vince Young is the latest in the line of successful scrambling college QBs to struggle as a passer in his first few years in the NFL.

The problem traces back to college coaches, who would rather see their scrambling QBs win games with their raw athleticism than teach them how to read defenses and throw from the pocket, resulting in a much steeper learning curve in the NFL. Watch any talented dual-threat QB in college, and you will notice two things: #1, it will take their coaches much longer to allow them to run an offense full time, and #2, they will be encouraged to scramble on almost every occasion. Who is more likely to make an immediate impact in the NFL: someone like Brian Brohm or Matt Ryan who has spent three years starting in a traditional pocket-passing offense in college, or someone like Dennis Dixon who has spent less time as a starter, and even that in a hybrid system that emphasizes scrambling? Dixon clearly has the physical ability to be a great NFL player, but I can promise you he is going to take longer to become a reliable NFL passer than Brohm or Ryan. That’s not because he thinks he can win the game on his own — it’s 100% because of coaching. Unfortunately, between his injuries, multiple coordinators, and now his legal problems, we never really got a chance to see how good of a passer Vick could have become if he was given the time to overcome the learning curve that scrambling QBs face.

By Lonnie

November 5, 2007 2:43 AM | Link to this

With Mike Vick on the team, the Dome was “Blacked Out.”

Without Mike Vick on the team, the Dome is still “Blacked Out.”

Either way, my family and I ain’t paying Blank our money to be surrouned by rude, uncivilized ghetto refuse.

By Burn in Hell, Vick !!!!

November 5, 2007 2:58 AM | Link to this

No Education = Vick Supporter

By big wheel

November 5, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this

Sour grapes after getting what you want= Vick hater.

By sl

November 5, 2007 8:16 AM | Link to this

TRUTH SPEAKER JOSH: Where in the world did you learn to speak / write the English language. Man, stop embarrassing yourself.

BURN IN HELL, VICK!!!: Short and to the point. Well done.

By morris

November 5, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

I’m glad they won but I have no hope for the future with mckay as GM. Our number one pick didn’t even registar a tackle yesterday. Instead of progressing he seems to be getting worse. How our we suppose to rebuild with an inept GM?

By Matt

November 5, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this

Vick Supporter; Are you living life like the movie blast from the past or what??? Let me gently remind you so you don’t look like a fool again… The last 2 seasons were losing seasons with Vick so I’m trying to figure out your point here;) Get a life! GO FALCONS

By woody

November 5, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

WTFC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Sid

November 5, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Folks, Quit worrying about if we will have the #1, 2, 3 draft choice. You know they will screw that up too. We still have the Rams to play so there is still hope.

By jeanE

November 5, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

I’m glad they won. And they won with Joey, so quit b*** about him even if his stats were average, bottom line is bottom line. Give him a break, jeez. Go Warrick!! You still got it, bud. I’m glad Brooking had a good “play” but that doesn’t make me change my mind about him. Who cares if we beat a pathetic team, I’m going to enjoy a win for a change even if I didn’t get to see it. That is sad. I don’t want a QB next yr, we need a lineman anyway. How come we NEVER see Rich McKay anymore????? Is he hiding? Smart guy. Let’s build on this, guys!

By fake fans

November 5, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

thanks to the 49ers for havin one of the worst offenses in the nfl for making our suspect looking defense look good and please stop the racist comments you people are making your sleve look stupid let vick rest

By fake fans

November 5, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

there was never a blackout when vick was here never

By #7

November 5, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Mike we still have a lot of haters but most ATL fans Miss you. Hope you can come back If not to Falcons some NFL team. We have better passer ratings and pocket passers but not many win and no running game sent you left Mike. Love you Mike Vick wish you the best! Haters are clutless + AJC sports! Mike Vick had 1039 yards rushing 20 TD passing. We have two QB and they can’t put up half of those numbers.

By Burger Brian

November 5, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

did you see Hall trying tp take that intercepted ball out of J Williams hands? That greedy b@st@rd! Jimmy was nice in his comments afterwards: “He’s got to be the luckiest man I know,” Williams said of Hall. “He seems to always be around the ball. But this one, it’s the first one for the career. I’ll sign it, put it up somewhere, look at it for the next day and try to get another one next week.”

By I'm in the real world

November 5, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Say what BirdBaby? Why feel sorry for fans who cannot watch the games on TV? These lazy fair-weather fans should get their marshmellow butts off the sofa and take their obese kids to the game! Poor things couldn’t sit home and stuff their fat faces with chips and leftover Halloween candy (if there’s any left by now) and gripe about the Falcon’s. I was at the game with the rest of the real fans and we had a blast! Boo hoo hoo to all of you nay-sayers, I just hope there was a marathon of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” for all you complaining couch potatoes to watch! And by the way, we won, we beat a team of professionals yesterday, duh! Quit trying to minimalize our accomplishment!

By I'm in the real world

November 5, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Hey Famuan … The guys on 790am are clowning the crowd right now?? Glad to see you believe everything you hear on the radio, are you still sipping on the Y2K water you stored in your mamma’s closet? Why didn’t you buy a ticket? What, no time to get your welfare check cashed before the 4th?

By Rev. James

November 5, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

The TV broadcasts may not have been “Blacked Out” when Vick was here, but he DOME sure was!!

Remember last winter when all the Vick Lovers said all the whites in Atlanta were “stupid” and “not real Falcons Fans” because they wanted to see Vick in jail to answer for his crimes?
I sure do.

Where were all those “LOYAL” FALCONS FANZ who love Vick so much yesterday?

Hmmmmmm?????????

By MV7 Supporter

November 5, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

LISTEN UP ALL YOU IDIOTS THAT KEEP COMPARING VICK TO MANNING AND BRADY. THOSE TWO WHITE IMMOBILE QB’S HAVE A LOT OF HELP AROUND THEM, WHICH IS WHY THEY WIN AND PUT UP THE NUMBERS THAT THEY DO. BRADY OR MANNING WOULD NOT LAST 5 GAMES BEHIND THIS SORRY @SS OFFENSIVE LINE, WITH THESE SORRY @SS RECEIVERS, AND THIS SORRY @SS COACHING STAFF, PERIOD.

By vox populi

November 5, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

A win is a win; I hope team leadership does not give it any more time than that. To declare that the team turned a corner yesterday would be laughable. Harrington completed his routine “checkdown” passes yesterday ONLY because the 49ers have no pass rush. It was good to see Abraham active and on the ball; but don’t mistake that performance as standard; let’s revisit his effectiveness after the Bucs, Carolina, Colts, Saints, and Seattle games; I give you the others.

Comments about Vick are now a waste of time as he moves closer to numbers not in a playbook but on the back of his inmate shirt; he will disappear in a sea of other lost souls who have become meaningless.

Looking ahead to the draft, watch the pattern continue; all eggs in one basket: the greatest QB who ever lived.. with no attention to the o-line. Or, signing 20+ year vets with medical histories longer than the Mississippi river.

The beat goes on as this team acts to solidify ite legacy: the only NFL team to NEVER have had two back to back winning seasons.

Long term solution: Sale and relocation.

End.

By I'm in the real world

November 5, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

TV blackouts Check Losing Season Check Half-empty Dome Check Complete irrelevance Check Mad cuz I can’t figure out why noone gives a rats azz about this team now that its back to how I like it Check

By artie blank

November 5, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

why did i buy this team, im losing millions

By Carl Leazer

November 7, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

A VIEW FROM CHARLOTTE:

THE FALCONS SHOOULD WINT THIS WEEK AGAINST THE PANTHERS. IF YOU PUT PRESSURE ON OUR QB, THE GAME WILL BE OVER IN THE 1ST QUARTER.

By Dixie Chick

November 9, 2007 8:11 PM | Link to this

As a season ticket holder since Blank took over, I have felt the last few years have been very disappointing ones for everyone associated with the Falcons - the fans, the players, the coaches. Everything that happens inside the Dome is affected - there are no good freebies on game day, the halftime shows are lackluster, the live band disappeared, the DJ vanished. Now we can’t even fill up the stadium with supporters. If the season continues on this path, we will see more injuries to our players, more mouthing off, and substantially more ugliness on and off the field. Frankly, I’m not willing to support that type of organization.