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The hex is over. No, not the “Hex of the ‘Naughts,” the decade of 2000-2009 that so recently ended. This is a much longer hex. Four years ago, I wrote about what was at that time The Thirty Nine Year Hex

Today, this hex turned the Atlanta Falcons into a sad puddle of loser. Again.

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A couple of weeks back the federal prison system released Michael Vick into their halfway house program. However, the program is so full that Vick had to be released to his own 4500 square foot home with an ankle bracelet. And the question became, will he get a second chance? Not at freedom, that’s a given. I mean a second chance to earn millions as an NFL player.

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Hey, what’s with the photo of a very youthful and vital looking Brett Favre … in a Falcons uniform? Didn’t he just retire? Have the Falcon’s drafted Brett’s son? Has Reid been dipping into the Photoshop again?

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If you’re a regular reader here, you may recall my opinions (1, 2) about current Atlanta Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall. But Mr. Hall has a couple of new bosses in GM Thomas Dimitroff and head coach Mike Smith, who may not be as familiar with Mr. Hall’s methods. So he gave them an introduction:

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So the Falcons hired a GM I’ve never heard of, who proceeded to hire a coach I’ve never heard of, to attempt to resurrect the team after a season worse than anyone has ever heard of.

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After the debacle of their quitter coach, I expected maybe the Falcons would come out last Sunday and show us something. They did. They showed their ass, in another undisciplined 30 point defeat. It placed an exclamation point at the end of “Yes, this is certainly the worst season ever!” Afterwards, I wondered what act could turn this around in anything less than three years.

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As this year began, the Falcons not only had one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL, they also had a damn fine backup quarterback, and they claimed they’d also finally hired the man to coach them, one Bobby Petrino.

On Monday, that “top quarterback” stood before a judge in a black and white jumpsuit and got sentenced to 23 months in jail, their damn fine backup is starting for Houston, and viewers who tuned in for prime time football got sentenced to watching yet another sorry performance by the puddle of misery the Falcons have become on their way to a 3-10 record.

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It’s been seven weeks since I last wrote about the local NFL franchise I now call The Atlanta Btfsplks. Three of those seven weeks, they managed to not lose a game.

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In a striking contrast to the last two weeks (1, 2), the Atlanta offense began to come together this Sunday. The previously moribund Joey Harrington had a fine outing, 31 of 44 for 361 yards and 2 touchdowns. He did plenty to win. So did the offensive line, who only allowed one sack after allowing 13 the past two weeks.

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Take one defensive battle resulting in a low scoring game, throw in a first year kicker who misses two field goals, one a gimme, liberally mix in seven sacks (13 now in two weeks), plus a second sub-100 yard rushing effort, and you’ve got The Atlanta Btfsplks ... Week Two.

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I’m thinking it may be time to change the name of the Atlanta Falcons to the Atlanta Btfsplk’s. Why Btfsplk’s? “Joe Btfsplk is very simply the world’s biggest jinx. He walks around with a perpetually dark rain cloud a foot over his head. Once he appears on any scene, dreadfully bad luck befalls anyone in his vicinity.”

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I suppose this site has seemed like “Vick Central” lately, and to help wrap that up, I thought I’d make a trip down to the Georgia Dome tonight, to take in the atmosphere before the first home game of the Falcons preseason, and maybe bring back a few interesting photos.

I can sum up that atmosphere in two words: hot and boring. There were supposedly going to be some “protests” by those supporting Vick, and some by those against him. For forty five minutes I walked around outside the Dome, hitting each of the four corners of that very big block, looking “off property” for any nearby activity. I saw about a dozen media trucks, with satellite dishes or microwave towers, but very little for them to cover outside the Dome.

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The attempted spin on events was clear from the moment the news hit the wires Friday afternoon. The word was that Michael Vick would plead guilty, but would not outright admit to either gambling or killing dogs. Talking heads with legal degrees were saying this was a major coup by Vick’s lawyers.

Steve Sadow, a prominent Atlanta defense attorney who has followed the case, said he believes Vick’s attorneys agreed to the careful phrasing in the summary of facts to help them with their negotiations with the NFL and for public relations.

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