Falcons–Saints rivalry

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The Falcons–Saints rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints. The rivalry began in 1967 when the Saints entered the NFL as an expansion team; the Falcons had joined the league a year earlier. The two teams were the NFL's first in the traditional Deep South, which along with the Dallas Cowboys helped break the Washington Redskins decades-long monopoly as the NFL's only team located in the Southern United States. The teams were both placed in the NFC West in 1970, resulting in the teams playing two games against each other every year since (except for the strike-shortened 1987 season). The teams were both placed in the newly-formed NFC South in the 2002 realignment. The national media rarely noted the series during the teams' first decades of existence, probably due to both teams' long stretches of futility. However, during the late 2000s and 2010s, both teams sustained success and routinely battled for the top spot in the NFC...

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