Falcons fan, here.
Growing up on the gulf coast, I pretty much had 2 options. I love New Orleans but the Saints were always terrible and my father is from Atlanta with a lot of my family still living there, so I gravitated toward the Falcons, while never really being a huge NFL fan. Then, they drafted Michael Vick. It was a different story after that. I did become a big Falcons fan and NFL football became exciting to me for the first time, really. Follow that with a truly terrible experience at the Superdome for the first MNF game post-Katrina, and then the attitudes/behaviors of the whodat nation following the team's new-found success, and I've been really happy about where I placed my loyalties. Sitting back and watching the events of the year unfold has only made it that much sweeter.