{"id":1337,"date":"2008-12-21T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T00:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/falcons-win-falcons-win\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T14:50:01","slug":"falcons-win-falcons-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/falcons-win-falcons-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons win!  Falcons win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/sports\/nfl\/atlantafalcons03_logo.gif\" alt=\"Atlanta Falcons\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"\/>It may not have been pretty, but the Falcons reached the playoffs with a 24-17 win on the road against Minnesota!  Simple incredible.  Who would have predicted this?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/09\/07\/falcons-2008-season-predictions\/\">Certainly not me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend all the breaks have fallen in Atlanta\u2019s favor.  The Ravens took down the Cowboys.  The Chargers defeated the Buccaneers.  And the Redskins just took care of the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the Falcons have any shot at the NFC South title?  I am not sure what happens if the Giants win over the Panthers, but if they do, and they fall the falling week to the Saints, can Atlanta steal the top spot?  Carolina probably has some sort of crazy tie breaker, but one can dream.  Besides, I do not want to get too greedy.  I am happy with making the playoffs, even as a wild card.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons are in the playoffs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have been pretty, but the Falcons reached the playoffs with a 24-17 win on the road against Minnesota! Simple incredible. Who would have predicted this? Certainly not me. This weekend all the breaks have fallen in Atlanta\u2019s favor. The Ravens took down the Cowboys. The Chargers defeated the Buccaneers. And the Redskins &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/falcons-win-falcons-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons win!  Falcons win!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}