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  1. Turner Field

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    These little flags represent everything that was done in Atlanta (though they do acknowledge accomplishments in Boston & Milwaukee on the outfield walls and various other places. In fact, the Braves this year are marketing that they are the Longest Continuously Ran Professional Sports Franchise in North America)

    Yellow pennant, blue numbers = divisional title (1969, 1982, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

    Yellow pennant, red numbers = NL Champions (1991, 1992, 1996,)

    Red pennant = World Champions (1995 :D)

    I'll find a picture of Philips and the Georgia Dome sometime later (though there really isn't much to see. :()

  2. Atlanta Falcons
    The positive experience was the 1998 "Dirty Bird" year. That was the year that pretty much made me a bonafide Falcons fan (I was rooting for the Cowboys like the rest of my close & extended family back then because I was little and everybody else cheered for them...so why not?). 9 is obvious since I moved here a few years ago, and now I live within comfortable walking distance of the Georgia Dome, and 10 because this team is consistently in a state of suck. tongue.gif

    Atlanta Braves
    This is probably the team that I've been a fan of the longest. I used to watch Braves games on TBS with my grandaddy since I was 3 (and he died when I was 10.), so I learned to love the team at an early age, I happened to be around when they were winning division titles like it was going out of style, and I've been with them since.

    Atlanta Hawks
    Been a fan of Dominique Wilkins since I was little, but I didn't really become a full fan until my mom (yes, my mom.) got season tickets back when they won only 13 games, and so she dragged me to every home game and was loud as hell in the house for every road game on TV. So yeah, I became a fan by absorption. Because she was a STH, she always took advantage of the behind-the-scenes access that came with that, so I met a lot of the players as a result. They're all pretty cool people, so that's another reason I pull for the Hawks. Like the Falcons, I could walk to Philips Arena in about 10 minutes. Like their neighbors across the street, the Hawks have been in a constant state of suck since the turn of the millennium, and I actually watched most of their 13-win season a couple of years back...so I guess that has to make me a masochist. tongue.gif

    Atlanta Thrashers
    Kovalchuk is great. I live around the vicinity of Philips, and I root for them just because they're the home team, and I'm a n00b to hockey so it wouldn't make much sense for me to learn the game while cheering for a team across the country. lol.

    Mississippi State Bulldogs
    I basically grew up from age 2-10 half-an-hour away from Mississippi State. And hell, even if I didn't like MSU, I'd still hate Ole Miss because Confederate Flags and black people just don't mesh. lol.

    Netherlands (FIFA)
    I like the colors tongue.gif, but I became a fan after watching their entire 1998 World Cup run, and doing some research of their "Total Football" strategy back in the 70s. That, and back then they just looked like a bunch of hippies, which was cool to me.

  3. Rasheed Wallace's one-game stint with the Hawks.

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    I remember that game. And I also remember him basically saying that New Jersey was a working pitstop on his road to Detroit.

    (I say New Jersey because Rasheed never played a game in Atlanta. Yet the Hawks felt the need to make a home jersey for Sheed. I've seen more than a few people wear them to games.)

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