The Atlanta Falcons are an Embarrassment to Football and I Hate Them

I consider myself a pretty loyal person. Whether in sports or otherwise, I think I do a pretty good job of sticking to and supporting what I believe in — just ask Tyler O’Day, he loves our daily political conversations.

That said, it may be time that I have to take Big Cat’s lead and quit the Atlanta Falcons. I mean, I let the Tennessee Volunteers take a giant dump on my chest every Saturday and even I think this Falcons business has gotten to the breaking point. I simply don’t understand how a team with as much talent as the Falcons have had in the last decade could be so flagrantly inept at seemingly ever turn.

Up 17-0 in the 2012 NFC Championship Game? Mike Smith can take care of that. Luck your way into the Super Bowl and get a 28-3 lead in the third quarter? Kyle Shanahan can call literally the worst sequence of plays in the history of football to ensure that gets erased as well.

And since then, it’s been a never-ceasing comedy of errors that has plagued every part of the team, even with a quarterback with undeniably Hall of Fame-worthy statistics. What makes it exponentially worse is having a Butch Jones parody account of a head coach in Dan Quinn, who loves to tell you how tough and disciplined his team is before losing to two AFC South teams and having 23 combined penalties in two weeks.

I can deal with losing — hell, I may subconsciously enjoy losing with the teams I root for. But I just can’t deal with the way the Falcons misuse a roster chock-full of elite talent and then listen to Dan Quinn tell me how “fired up” he is to get back to work.

I mean, you lost by two touchdowns at home to the TITANS! THE TITANS?! You got carved up by *this* guy.

I may soon be opening up my NFL fandom to suggestions*, so send me your pick for who my new team should be and your reason why and I will take them under advisement.

*only until Dan Quinn is fired, then we’re back