The 1998 NFC Championship: Origins of a Falcons Fan

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Published: May 8, 2009

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... trivial, yet occasionally forget the important. I mean, why do I remember how bad Joey Harrington was in Week Five of 2007 (2.81 yards per passing attempt!), yet forget how to conjugate Spanish verbs on my final exam?

And the human memory also has no regard for time: Hell if I could tell you what I wore yesterday, but if you want a description of my first time watching a Falcons game in person, I could even give you the details of how the air conditioning felt on the back of my neck in the Georgia Dome.

So I guess it's just good luck that I remember the beginning of my, shall we say, "NFL consciousness." Not all the details, mind you, but certainly the most important ones.

 

It was mid-January 1999, about halfway through my fifth grade year. My boy, Jay, and I were at some girl's house working on a group project for school.

That is, the girls were working on the "group" project. My main and I were holed up in the basement, glued to the tube. ...

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