Falcons, Ga. Lottery team up for new game

The Falcons and the Georgia Lottery are teaming up for a new instant-win game, giving fans a chance to win up to $500,000, 2011 season tickets and other prizes.

The instant game, called Atlanta Falcons $500,000 Score, costs $5 and will go toward funding the Pre-K and HOPE Scholarship programs, lottery officials said.

“We’re certainly excited about out continued partnership with the Atlanta Falcons,” Margaret DeFrancisco, Georgia Lottery CEO and president said in a statement.

Participants can also win tickets for two to an away game, a yearlong tailgate party, a 2011 Ford F-150 SuperCrew truck, a Falcons home theater and a landscape makeover by the Atlanta Falcons grounds crew.

This is the second year the Falcons and Georgia Lottery have partnered on an instant game. The tickets for the instant game went on sale July 20.

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