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Oh, Falcons, some things are just not meant to be

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Charlie Brown never kicks the football, the castaways never get rescued from Gilligan’s Island and Greg Norman never wins the Masters.

Some things are just meant to be. Or, in some cases, just not meant to be.

It has been a week now. That’s scarcely enough time to ease the sting of the most epic flop and quintessential Atlanta sports moment of all time. As the Atlanta Falcons were exorcising half a century of futility, most of the 110 million Super Bowl viewers surely assumed that the vaunted New England Patriots were about to be humbled right there for Roger Goodell to secretly enjoy.