If you look at the schedule in the NFL for Week 6, you’d see a 5-0 team matching up with a struggling 1-4 team on Thursday Night Football. This will be one of those games, however, where you can throw the records out the window.
That aforementioned matchup will be between the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints, at the Louisiana Superdome. Last year, before the critical Week 16 match between these teams, I wrote about why this was the biggest rivalry in the NFL. I stand by that. You can read that article here.
Below is an excerpt from that article, and it is something that applies to this Thursday’s upcoming divisional matchup:
No matter how bad the year was, beating the arch rival made it all the more bearable.