It took reading Arthur Blank’s book Good Company to get Terry Fontenot truly interested in the Falcons job. The longtime New Orleans executive appears to have been pretty well entrenched in one of the NFL’s most bitter rivalries, because as he told Steve Wyche and Jim Trotter on The Huddle and Flow podcast, when he was first contacted by Atlanta during their general manager search he wasn’t exactly jumping up and down for the opportunity.
“I’ll be honest: When I found out the Falcons wanted to interview me, I had no interest in the Falcons job initially, until I read the book.