Maybe not...

I have followed the Falcons for the past probably 14 years as my NFL team of choice. The reason why, I loved the colors black and red when I was a kid and my parents got me a Falcons winter coat, and back in those days, whatever team was on your winter coat, was your team. So here I am, in the 4th grade, rooting for a team on the exact opposite corner of the US for that simple reason. Anyways, As I grew up I got to know some of the better players, Keith Brooking, Patrick Kerney, etc. and endured some of the more questionable players, Jeff George, Chris Chandler, Deion Sanders. So to me, Atlanta Falcons football has been mediocre, but acceptable, except for a couple years of glory when they went to the Super Bowl in 1998 and lost to the retiring John Elway and when they made the push for the Super Bowl again in 2004 only to lose to the Eagles in the NFC Championship Game.

I as a life-long dirty bird watched as the Falcons wasted a first round draft pick on Michael Vick instead of taking the leading rusher in the nation, anybody remember....?? LaDanian Tomlinson. He hasn't really done anything with his career either though right?
While on my lunch break today, I jumped onto MSNBC to see the most recent news article postings to find out what was happening with the pirates of the Indian Ocean, and came across a news article talking about fans finally getting over Michael Vick leaving Atlanta. Now, I have been alright with him leaving from the beginning, 1) Because he will probably go down as one of the most selfish on-field players of all time but more importantly 2) Because he starved dogs to the point where they would fight each other to the death while his friends gambled and made hundreds of thousands of dollars on their unfortunate deaths. The article disagreed with me however. They claim that many people in the Atlanta community are upset with the way his trial was handled based on his race. They say that the main reason why he was presumed guilty before innocent was the color of his skin. Now, I don't know what wa the bigger smoking gun, the massive amount of dead and badly injured dogs on his property, or that everyone else involved in the case pointed a finger at him as guilty while they were amitting their sins as well, but it seems like race doesn't usually play a factor when all of the bare bone facts are right in front of you. Like I said before, nothing really amazes me these days.