How do you feel about the Atlanta Falcons playing on Thanksgiving this year? Nervous? Happy? Frustrated that indigestion might come at the hand of Freddie Falcon instead of the turkey in your stomach?
Imagine that frustration and fear tenfold in the stomach of Falcons owner Arthur Blank.
His franchise, a relative model of consistency and quality over the last decade, has fallen on hard times, only spurring up some brief excitement in a November resurgence that failed once more against the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Now the Saints are coming.