Update: Atlanta rally looks like it is on, so Bill Burt has splainin to do

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Update Burt's twitter post has some replies showing photos of fans at an indoor rally so someone is full of ****. Probably Bill Burt. Sorry for passing on BS if that's the case.

 

[Raymond]

I'm not surprised. The Boston radio guys all week have said they see NO Falcon fans around the city at all. It's as if they don't exist.

 

[jboston19]

I was flying from Houston yesterday and the Pats fans coming the other way definitely outnumbered the Falcons fans by at least that many.

 

[Todd Bradley]

Love it.

Make it loud as hell when they're on offense.

 

[shmessy]

Wow. If true THIS is a new experience for the Pats. Perhaps another unintended consequence of Goodell's Defamegate?

 

[bormio]

They are all at home waiting on the Dawgs to start spring practice.

 

[neuronet]

This is frankly shocking. Can we have more details please? This isn't the Atlanta sendoff rally...so I'm assuming a rally in Houston?
Thousands turn out for Falcons Super Bowl send-off in Atlantic Station

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Yet another reason why the Falcons were my second most wanted team (after the Lions) out of the NFC playoff group.

 

[mitsudriver]

They were all at the Casino with me last night. Must have been hundreds of people wearing falcons gear there. Donned my Belichick hoodie with pride. Most of them expecting a falcons blowout. This is about 2.5 hours north of Atlanta.

 

[50-yard-line]

I was in Jacksonville for Pats-Eagles. We were greatly outnumbered - I think many NE fans sold their tickets to desperate Eagles' fans for big bucks, since it was the 3rd trip in 4 years for the Pats.

The Eagle fans were miserable - they'd run up to people with Pats gear on and throw punches. Miserable, miserable, miserable.

By contrast, the Carolina fans the year before were so nice I wanted them to almost win. That Houston SB was one of the best weeks I've ever had.

Jacksonville soured me on ever going back.

 

[Pats1989]

Surprising since it's relatively " new" to them.

We've been outnumbered for the last few years. SB 39, 42, 46, 49 had more Eagles, Giants, Hawks fans. Actually SB 39 was decidedly in favor of Eagles.

We outnumbered Carolina in SB 38. SB 36 seemed to be split.

 

[Pats1989]

I was in Jacksonville for Pats-Eagles. We were greatly outnumbered - I think many NE fans sold their tickets to desperate Eagles' fans for big bucks, since it was the 3rd trip in 4 years for the Pats.

The Eagle fans were miserable - they'd run up to people with Pats gear on and throw punches. Miserable, miserable, miserable.

By contrast, the Carolina fans the year before were so nice I wanted them to almost win. That Houston SB was one of the best weeks I've ever had.

Jacksonville soured me on ever going back.

I wonder if that's why Eagles fans outnumbered Patriot supporters. Maybe Patriots fans were scared of them. Not sure.

 

[Mainepatsfan54]

 

[jmt57]

This is good news. It would be great if Sunday was like a home game, louder than Gillette on defense.

 

[Tuck]

Fellow pats fans, if you're in Houston please give the rest of us a report! It seems hard to believe The Falcons can't even muster up enough people for a rally down there.

 

[Love The Drake]

#CrowdGate?

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

Hopefully this hurts the Falcons morale!

 

[TB12TheGoat]

sweep the leg

 

[mosi]

I was in Jacksonville for Pats-Eagles. We were greatly outnumbered - I think many NE fans sold their tickets to desperate Eagles' fans for big bucks, since it was the 3rd trip in 4 years for the Pats.

The Eagle fans were miserable - they'd run up to people with Pats gear on and throw punches. Miserable, miserable, miserable.

By contrast, the Carolina fans the year before were so nice I wanted them to almost win. That Houston SB was one of the best weeks I've ever had.

Jacksonville soured me on ever going back.

That is just Philadelphia. Love the city but Eagles fans are terrible. Everyone should go to an Eagles game to understand they should never go to an Eagles game.

 

[pherein]

This is typical of Falcon fans. They rarely support the team unless winning, and still they would always leave their stadium early 4th quarter so we would out number them. To beat traffic. Its almost a tradition for falcon fans to burn their gear , not kidding, after every losing season. We call them the Philly of the south.

Id be surprised if you didn't have some kind of confrontation at the game. We stopped taking our kids long ago to Atlanta.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/06/10/emory-falcons-fans-among-the-worst.html

Saints have always maintained a #1-8 fan ranking even when 40 year losers. We believe some of their good teams don't do well because of the lack of solid good fans. I would hate to play for Atlanta.

I saw a falcon bandwagon fan chart from the beginning of the season showing that nearly 2/3rds of the current Atlanta fans rooting for them in the superbowl did not support them at the beginning of the season. The Falcon team has no real connection to the fan base from what we have seen.

Your fans have always been great also.