Bang: the New Orleans Saints knocked off the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday to win 21-18, improving their record to 5-9 on the year. But this is big for bragging rights in the NFL’s best rivalry series. Beyond having swept the Falcons in 2022, the Saints have now caught Atlanta in the all-time record with their oldest rivals.
If you include the one playoff meeting (which the Falcons won), both teams are now tied up at 54-54 head-to-head. If you only count regular season games, New Orleans leads the series 54-53. The Saints and Falcons started out together in the old NFC West, and they moved on to form the NFC South together in 2002. They’ve been squaring up twice a year ever since.
