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Atlanta Falcons: The Eight Year Rise from Turmoil to Super Bowl

The Atlanta Falcons are headed to the Super Bowl. Its’s a sentence that is hard to believe by even some of the Falcons’ faithful but yet, here they are. The Falcons stand one win away from bringing the city of Atlanta it’s first Super Bowl championship.

From the 2008 season to this point, the Falcons have endured a massive, emotional wave of triumphs, embarrassments, let-downs, and ridicule. Atlanta is now riding a wave that hasn’t been this high since 1998.

This impressive voyage of the Atlanta Falcons started on April 26th, 2008.

The Era of Matt Ryan

On April 26th, 2008, the lasting days of the Bobby Petrino-Michael Vick saga came to an end.