The Atlanta Falcons are a snake-bitten franchise that has never been the last team standing in 54 years of professional football since their inception. That’s not to say that they haven’t come agonizingly close in the past.
Five Falcons teams that came closer than all others were the squads in 1980, 1998, 2004, 2012, and 2016. We asked you guys which of these teams was the best, and there was a majority consensus answer:
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60% of you voted for the 2016 team that had a 28-3 lead in the third quarter of Super Bowl 51 and somehow didn’t win (don’t ask me how that happened, I still have no idea).