I also grew up in the South........for the most part..........save for 3 years in Cali..........So. Delaware is below the mason Dixon line......................and so is No., Virginia.........not the deep south like Atlanta...........Tyler Perry...........Atlanta...................................

Atlanta Falcons

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Atlanta Falcons
Current season
Established June 30, 1965; 51 years ago (June 30, 1965) First season: 1966 Play in Mercedes-Benz Stadium (projected) Atlanta, Georgia Headquartered in Flowery Branch, Georgia
Logo Wordmark
League/conference affiliations
National Football League (1966–present) Eastern Conference (1966) Western Conference (1967–1969) Coastal Division (1967–1969) National Football Conference (1970–present) NFC West (1970–2001) NFC South (2002–present)
Current uniform
Team colors	Black, Red, Silver, White[1][2]
Mascot	Freddie Falcon
Personnel
Owner(s)	Arthur Blank
CEO	Rich McKay
General manager	Thomas Dimitroff
Head coach	Dan Quinn
Team history
Atlanta Falcons (1966–present)
Team nicknames
The Dirty Birds, Grits Blitz (1977 defense)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (2) NFC: 1998, 2016
Division championships (6) NFC West: 1980, 1998 NFC South: 2004, 2010, 2012, 2016
Playoff appearances (13)
NFL: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
Home fields
Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium (1966–1991) Georgia Dome (1992–2016) Mercedes-Benz Stadium (2017–future) (projected)

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965^[2] as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League (AFL). The AFL instead granted a franchise to Miami (the Miami Dolphins). The Falcons are tied with the Dolphins (who also began play in 1966) for being the second-oldest NFL franchise in the Deep South, and are the second-oldest NFC team in that region, after the Dallas Cowboys.
In their 51 years of existence, the Falcons have compiled a record of 350–449–6 (341–437–6 in the regular season and 9–12 in the playoffs), winning division championships in 1980, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2016. With their win over the Green Bay Packers on January 22, 2017, the Falcons will make their second Super Bowl appearance; the first being during the 1998 season in Super Bowl XXXIII, where they lost to the Denver Broncos 34–19.^[3]
The Falcons played their home games at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta from the 1992 to 2016 NFL seasons. Construction began on Mercedes-Benz Stadium in May 2014, with play projected to begin there during the 2017 season. Their headquarters and practice facilities are located at a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Georgia.^[4]