Tickets available for Monday night contest

By: T. Love

Apparently the wheels have fallen off quicker than anyone expected and as the Falcons head into their Monday night game versus the New York Giants, the days of old have returned.

Need tickets to a highly anticipated Monday night game? Check on Ticketmaster because no one cares to see the Falcons get beat down again this week.

For the first time since 2002, an Atlanta home game is not sold out and the franchise is in danger of being blacked out in the local market. Not to mention, the embarrassment of the Georgia Dome being filled with fans dressed earlier in their Halloween gear as “empty seats” in front of a national audience.

Not really sure if this was the vision that King Arthur had when he took over the team in 2001, but a lot of this situation is his own doing. No one could possibly predict the fact that the franchise QB would get into the mess that he did; however, when that same QB went down in 2003 and the Falcons were absolutely pathetic without him, changes should have been made.

Sure, Blank fired Dan Reeves, which I was all for, but you do not replace a Hall of Fame coach with a first-year punk whose only credentials is his father’s famous “playoffs” rant.

The team gets a new coach, but does not make a lot of moves to get better players. Plenty of free agent busts in Peerless Price, Jason Webster, Ed Hartwell, Lewis Sanders and Dez White. Not to mention the worthless draft picks of Michael Jenkins, Jordan Beck and Deandra Cobb. And lets not forget about the fact that there was a $130 million QB and a $50 offensive line (For the record, the offensive line was “upgraded” this off season and Harrington is on his back within two seconds on every snap).

Michael Vick’s $130 million extension was the only signing worth a damn by Blank. This ensured that his cash cow would be around forever and mediocre results were o.k. because everyone loved Michael.

Art’s dream of milking everything he could out of Vick is over and now football decisions have to be made. Unfortunately, there are not too many football people in that front office and many more games will be blacked out in the near future with a lot of “empty seats”.