On Saturday night, Atlanta United won. They won a championship in their second season, and they won it right there in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in a city that had last won a major league sports championship 23 years ago. They won, in other words, in spite of history or a curse or a string of bad luck that it seemed like Atlanta sports was heir to.
It was impossible to think it was anything but a curse for a while there. The Braves, the Falcons and the Hawks have all enjoyed impressive runs over the years, with the Falcons making the Super Bowl in both 1998 and 2016 and anyways let’s keep moving.