The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Falcons fans populate Super Bowl Live in downtown Houston
As early birds to the Super Bowl Live experience wandered around Root Memorial Square Park in the blistering sun, the majority of football fans who populated the grounds mid-afternoon Monday sported shirts supporting their favorite teams. Lots of Broncos, Green Bay and Dallas fans. A few boasted Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski jerseys, but Falcons fans were a more difficult find. (Security dogs, however, were not).
Mindy Siskey, a current resident of Vinings, walked through the park proudly displaying a faded red Atlanta Falcons shirt, proof of her lifelong fandom.
“I was the oldest of three girls. My dad didn’t have a boy, so I had to learn football,” she said with a laugh.
Siskey commutes weekly to her job as a sales person at P2 Energy Solutions in downtown Houston — yes, from Atlanta — and she and her office mates, many of them Texans fans disgruntled at yet another playoff loss to the Patriots, have placed signs in their office windows at the Houston Center to cheer on the Falcons.
“The whole office wants the Falcons to win,” she said. “Everyone I know in Houston who is a Texans fan is a Falcons fan.”
Siskey attended the NFC Championship at the Georgia Dome and she’ll head back to Georgia to watch the Super Bowl with friends and family rather than stick around Texas and try to nab a game ticket.
Her optimism about the team’s chances at victory is unflagging.
“I feel as good about this year as I ever have,” she said. “The defense is hot at the right time.”