Local teams kept getting bashed and bashed and bashed and...

When the Atlanta Falcons dropped a 28-24 decision to the San Francisco 49ers this past Sunday in the NFC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome, it meant the end to a lot more than end of the seasons for the Falcons.
It meant the end of a year where every talking head or someone who portrays one on television could stop bashing any and all sports teams located in the Atlanta area.
There was all of the criticism about the Atlanta Hawks and star player Joe Johnson who couldn't brush his teeth without someone saying that he missed a molar.
When he was traded to the Brooklyn Nets last summer, I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised because it was time because of hitting that point where it isn't worth it and a change of scenery would be good.
I just want to know if he has met Beyonce yet at any Nets' home games.
Johnson was not the only Hawks getting drilled as Josh Smith, Marvin Williams and head coach Larry Drew were in the path of the heads.
Josh Smith is a good player who now and then will drive one to partake of liquid substances while I think Drew is a capable coach who gives off the impression of being mild-mannered but I am sure he doesn't put up with much as the recent suspension of Smith indicates.
Anyway, the attendance was criticized while those who showed up were drilled for rooting for the other team.
Last I looked, you can root for anybody you want. I spent several years in Louisiana and I continued to root for the Falcons.
With Johnson gone and the Hawks season ending, there had to be somebody else to drill and during the summer there were the Braves.
You remember those scamps, who won division titles for 14 straight seasons but only came away with one world series championship along with four other National League titles.
The starting pitching was not very good at the beginning of the season and they would have signed anyone to work in the rotation and they did when they signed Ben Sheets who helped tremendously during the summer.
When the pitching staff and their leader Roger McDowell (who I still think about in a grass skirt during one of MTV's old Rock and Jock softball games) wasn't getting the grease from the proverbial wheels, there was general manager Frank Wren, field manager Fredi Gonzalez and others to hoist insults toward.
I also do not want to forget the talking heads decided the fans were bad people because they attend all of the games.
First, most are on television and outside of the cable and utility bill there isn't much of an expense in watching from home.
Next, do I want to spend an evening driving on I-85, I-75 or I-20 trying to find a parking spot somewhere and then leaving.
I would go on but I think I have delivered the point since you have been admonished as bad people.
After baseball came the Falcons to rise up before the masses and for some reason, they were considered a bad team.
First game was a win over Kansas City, next was the Monday night win over Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos at the Georgia Dome and for six more weeks the Falcons won.
They lost at New Orleans and all of the heads came out with the horns of demons and laughed like crazy.
Well they won two more games to seal the NFC South and split the next four games on the way to claiming a top seed.
The feeling of the talking heads was that the Falcons had to beat the Seattle Seahawks to preserve the legacy of Matt Ryan and Mike Smith as well as that of general manager Thomas Dimitroff.
They teased us and blew it before defeating the Seahawks 30-28 but they won and nearly beat the 49ers.
Well there was Falcons criticism by the heads after each of those games and enough is enough.
The Atlanta Falcons were 14-4, came within yards of going to the Super Bowl and I for one am really thrilled.
The only sports I watched this week were the Hawks, the Austrailian Open tennis tournament and that was it.
The talking head craze wasn't limited to the pros as the Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets took their shots but I have painted enough of a picture of this mess.
It will be fun to see what 2013 will have on its plate.