ATLANTA – The Falcons are well aware of just how desperate this city is for its first Super Bowl championship.
Mike Peterson sees and hears it everywhere he goes.
“The city is hungry,” the Atlanta linebacker said. “You can feel it when you’re in the grocery store. Everybody is saying, ‘Go Falcons.’ Everyone is wearing red and black. The city is painted red and black.”
The Falcons will be playing in the NFC championship game for only the third time when they host the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, a matchup of teams that come into this game from very different historical perspectives.
For the 49ers, this is a chance to rekindle the franchise’s glorious legacy, to follow in the footsteps of those magnificent teams that captured five Super Bowls titles in the 1980s and ‘90s, led by giants of the game such as Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Steve Young.
The Falcons? They’ve never won even a single Super Bowl.![]()
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