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| Established June 30, 1965[1] First season: 1966 Play in Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta, Georgia Headquartered in Flowery Branch, Georgia[2] | |||||
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National Football League (1966–present)
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| Team colors | Black, red, silver, white[3][4][5] | ||||
| Mascot | Freddie Falcon | ||||
| Website | atlantafalcons.com | ||||
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| Owner(s) | Arthur Blank | ||||
| CEO | Rich McKay | ||||
| General manager | Terry Fontenot | ||||
| President | Greg Beadles | ||||
| Head coach | Raheem Morris | ||||
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| League championships (0) | |||||
| Conference championships (2) | |||||
| Division championships (6) | |||||
| Playoff appearances (14) | |||||
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The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons were founded on June 30, 1965, and joined the NFL in 1966[6] 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).
In their 57 years of existence, the Falcons have compiled a record of 390–503–6 (380–489–6 in the regular season and 10–14 in the playoffs), winning division championships in 1980, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2016. The Falcons have appeared in two Super Bowls, the first during the 1998 season in Super Bowl XXXIII, where they lost to the Denver Broncos 34–19,[7] and the second 18 years later, a 34–28 overtime loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. They are the oldest major professional sports team in America with no championships.[8]
The Falcons' current home field is Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened for the 2017 season; the team's headquarters and practice facilities are located at a 50-acre (20 ha) site in Flowery Branch,[9] northeast of Atlanta in Hall County.
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- ^ Nivison, Austin (November 2, 2023). "Falcons are oldest major sports franchise without a league championship after Rangers' World Series win". CBSSports.com. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
- ^ "Atlanta Falcons Corporate Headquarters and Training Facility". claycorp.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.