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It’s not the Falcons vs. Patriots. It’s John Lewis’ team vs. Donald Trump’s

Thousands of football fans arriving in Houston for the Super Bowl take in the pro football interactive theme park the NFL Experience on Thursday. Curtis Compton, compton@ajc.com

Credit: Jim Galloway

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Thousands of football fans arriving in Houston for the Super Bowl take in the pro football interactive theme park the NFL Experience on Thursday. Curtis Compton, compton@ajc.com
By Jim Galloway
Feb 3, 2017

You had to know it would come to this. Ed Kilgore is a Democratic commentator with deep roots in Georgia.

In New York magazine, he suggests that Sunday's Super Bowl match between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots may be the billboard – but the subtext is a match between John Lewis and his maligned Fifth District, which is home to the Falcons, and President Donald Trump. A taste:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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