FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Arthur Smith smirked. He had nothing to do with any of the games he was being asked about, wasn’t even in Atlanta as the Falcons' head coach yet. But yeah, he knows about games with interesting endings. And how sometimes teams can play each other and oddities occur.
So while he never has been with the Falcons when they’ve played the Detroit Lions, which will happen Sunday inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, there is a history to it. He himself remembered being at Ole Miss and just knowing that games with LSU always had something happen.