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Alverson: Super Bowl champion 'Ain'ts' put rival Falcons to shame
2010-02-11
By Trey Alverson

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So the Saints are Super Bowl champions... I have to hand it to the 'Who Dats,' they earned it. Drew Brees out-dueled Peyton Manning in the big game. Reggie Bush was spectacular. Tracy Porter's interception and touchdown was a thing of beauty.

Since the Superdome became ground zero for Hurricane Katrina's unspeakable devastation four and a half years ago, it has been near impossible to cheer against the Saints.

In the aftermath of the storm, the Saints have all but replaced the Dallas Cowboys as "America's Team."


I can't say I'm upset that the Saints won, but as a devout Atlanta sports fan, it is a little hard to swallow.

Outside of that 1998 NFC title, all we die-hard Falcons fans ever had to hang our hats on was the fact that the Saints and Bucs faithful were worse off than us.

The Falcons have 45 wins against the Saints -- that's 17 more than Atlanta has logged against any other team. The Falcons entered the league in 1966, one year before the Saints. Since then, Atlanta has consistently abused its division rival in New Orleans like a whipping boy.
Atlanta made a habit out of snatching up the Saints' best players in the free agent market, like Bobby Hebert, Craig "Ironhead" Heyward and Morten Anderson.


When the Bucs won the Super Bowl in 2002, both Falcons and Saints fans felt sick to their stomachs.

And now, the team once known as "The Aints' is parading the Lombardi Trophy down Bourbon Street.

That leaves the Falcons as the south's most historically downtrodden football franchise.

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