FLOWERY BRANCH —
This is a historic season for the Falcons, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary.
There have been a few highs, but mostly lows over those five decades of play at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and the Georgia Dome. In a sordid kind of way, given the history of the franchise, which didn’t record its first back-to-back winning seasons until 2008 and 2009, the 2015 team is paying its own historical tribute.
Under first-year coach Dan Quinn, the Falcons are on a path that could end up providing the most historic collapse over the past 45 years since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.