Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl love is rising up far and wide

From Buckhead to downtown and beyond, city brandishes support for championship-starved NFL franchise

By Josh Green@JoshGreen1234 Feb 1, 2017, 1:18pm EST

Liberty Plaza, across the street from Georgia’s Gold Dome, exhibits Dirty Bird pride.

Even football haters have to admit this is a special time for Atlanta.

For a town derided as “Loserville” and “The Worst Sports City in the World” with its famously fair-weather fan base, the outpouring of support for the Super Bowl-bound Falcons has been impressive — if not chill-inducing.

A legendary Atlantic Station send-off Sunday drew an estimated 15,000 strong, and countless other pep rallies are planned at schools and communities across the region this week.

Here’s a round-up of ways Atlanta — and even a building in Houston — is rising up in hopes of laying claim to the ultimate trophy and bragging rights that endure:

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^ The Krog Street Tunnel, of all places, exhibits team pride, as seen in the rally-cry clip “A City Waits” narrated by Ludacris.

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The Halstead apartments show Falcons love in Houston.

^ Atlanta-based Cortland Partners raised a “Rise Up” banner in a prominent place this week. The company is closing its offices on Monday “in honor of the Sunday night celebrations,” officials said in a release today, adding: “[I]t’s impossible for the Atlanta home office team to ignore the energy building around Atlanta in anticipation of this Sunday’s match-up.” (Can’t the entirety of metro Atlanta declare a holiday?)

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^ You’ll have to employ some imagination, because we neglected to take a useable photo, but the top of this Terminus tower in Buckhead is currently glowing red for the Falcons at night.

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