NEW ORLEANS – That Falcons’ team you might have wondered about? It returned Thursday night, as if rising from a grave to remind everybody, “You thought we had disappeared for the entire season? Hah! Notsomuch. Can I interest you in a fumble?”
It was throwback night — the throwback era being the last couple of years of infamy, pre-Dan Quinn. The Falcons’ horrors took place in a fitting venue: the Superdome, home of their chief rival and pain, apparently even at 1-4.
They fumbled three times on the Saints’ side of the field.