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Featured is a ATLANTA FALCONS Chrome Mini Helmet. #252 of 2000
The picture doesn't do justice to this magnificant helmet! These mini helmets use a special paint treatment over chrome, resulting in an extremely shiny surface that draws your eye like none other. These are limited to 2,000 of each team, & individually numbered. They include a quarterback style steel face mask.
On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born. The NFLCommissionerPete Rozellegranted ownership to Rankin M. Smith Sr., the executive vice president of Life Insurance Company of Georgia. The name Falcons was inspired by a school teacher from Georgia who won a contest in 1965, who wrote "The falcon is proud and dignified, with courage and fight. It is deadly and has a great sporting tradition.” Rankin M. Smith Sr. would draft Tommy Nobis, LB, University of Texas with the first pick of the 1966 NFL Draft held on November 27, 1965, making him the first ever Falcon.
The Atlanta Falcons were awarded their first NFL season in 1966, and had their first game (preseason) on August 1, 1966against the Philadelphia Eaglesbefore a crowd of 26,072 at the Atlanta Stadium. The Falcons would lose against the Eagles and would lose their first nine games in the regular season before finally getting their first franchise win on the road against the New York Giants, 27-16. Former Giant Ernie Wheelwright scored two TD's receiving and ran for 51 more yards as QBRandy Johnson hit for a trio of TD's. Their first ever home victory was against the St. Louis Cardinals, 16-10 to a crowd of 57,169. The Falcons ended their inaugural season at 3-11, yet Nobis won the NFL Rookie of the Year Award and became the first Falcon named to the Pro Bowl.
When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo. They wore white pants and either black or white jerseys. At first, the falcon crest logo was also put on the jersey sleeves, but it was replaced by a red and white stripe pattern one year later. They switched from black to red jerseys in 1971, and the club began to wear silver pants in 1978.
A prototype white helmet was developed for the team prior to the 1974 season, but never worn.
In 1990, the uniform design changed to black helmets, silver pants, and either black or white jerseys. The numbers on the white jerseys were black, but were changed to red in 1997.
Both the logo and uniforms radically changed in 2003. The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides. The uniform design consisted of either black or white jerseys, and either black or white pants. During that same year, a red alternate jersey with black trim was also introduced. The Falcons also started wearing black cleats with these uniforms. In 2004, the red jerseys became the primary jerseys, and the black ones became the alternate, primarily wearing white pants with the white jerseys and white pants with the red jerseys. The Falcons also in select road games wear black pants with white jerseys. In the past three seasons, the Falcons wore an all-black combination for home games against the archrival New Orleans Saints, winning the first two contests (24-21 in 2004 and 36-17 in 2005), but losing 31-13 in 2006. They wore the combination again in 2006, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneersin Week 2. The Falcons won that game as well, 14-3 |
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