rouses markets the dirty birds goal of trouncing the long-hated other team it's passed down through generations as a kind people to believe in something bigger than bring bragging rights home for everyone to enjoy the boast-worthy spoils while there are plenty of rivalries that have gone down in the history books as legendary rivalry than the new orleans saints and the atlanta falcons but what exactly makes these two teams below are multiple tenets of what makes a rivalry matchup continues to draw fans with vim and vitriol each season and history who were also born as part of an expansion effort with the saints just barely posting a win over the both the saints and falcons were originally placed has ensured that the teams have played at least two games against each other each year since - allowing plenty of opportunities for both memorable moments and mudslinging create your ultimate fan cartoon and there are few fan bases who can sling mud is taken to its most venomous level where the saints aren't afraid to get creative with their name-calling refrains and jokes with the singular aim of getting fans how many falcons fans does it take to change a light bulb? none! they are happy living in new orleans' moments that have been crystallized in the memories when darren sharper intercepted a pass from matt on and on but then there are moments in the saints-falcons history that have been memorialized far beyond grandest example of this is the golden statue erected outside of the new orleans superdome in 2012 depicting saints safety steve gleason as he blocked punter depicted in the statue is generic because the the saints' first game back in the superdome after team's unwavering spirit and resilience adversaries while atlanta and new orleans football fans have of the region noticed for most of the teams' tenure the wins department official supermarket of the new orleans saints "the saints and the falcons both were so bad for so long that i believe this is why their nasty rivalry never gets attention from the mainstream media," futility was so bad that up until the falcons' super to capture the division crown once each." powerhouses on a national scale red bull energ and mad soo feels like bo football rouses markets the other team's defeats as much as your own victories is a falcons' loss as satisfying as a saints' win for close sla no recent incident captures this more vividly than at the falcons blowing a 28-3 lead against the new england patriots in the 2017 super bowl bigger than a game teams is good at getting the whole community riled own special kind of celebration between the very character of two extremely skyscrapers and traffic-snarling sprawl that mark it these two rivals isn't just about what happens on the field - it's a true grudge match for pride of place and local identity the saints and falcons have clashed more than 100 achieve in ways that non-rivalry competitions just can't fantasizing about picking off a pass from the falcons quarterback and the falcons defense is running drill after drill in hopes of sacking jameis winston the cities of new orleans and atlanta are they're going to clown around on one another in an in the zone for every game? red bull gives you wiiings