Coastal Alabama's favorite NFL team is the one west on I-10 -- the New Orleans Saints. But for former Vigor High School standout Jalston Fowler, it was the Saints' biggest rival -- the Atlanta Falcons -- who had his childhood devotion while growing up in Prichard.
That's why it was an extra thrill for Fowler when the Falcons signed him on Monday.
"I was one of the only kids in my neighborhood that liked the Falcons," Fowler told D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "It was a big, big excitement for me.