Monday night, 10 years and a day since he walked into the Superdome in New Orleans under the cover of Michael Vick’s shadow, Matt Schaub will make the same entrance as Matt Ryan’s back-up.
As is custom whenever the Falcons play the Saints in this heated intra-division rivalry, emotions will be running in the red.
But back then, on the night they reopened the dome as a place for football rather than a hellish refuge of last resort, the passions inside rose as flood waters that could have matched those of Hurricane Katrina herself. Back then, as the Falcons prepared to meet this irresistible force, they wondered how they would manage to function, much less win.