Secret Base to roll out 7 part Dorktown Presents: The History of the Atlanta Falcons series in August – The Falcoholic

As Falcons fans, we have plenty of experience being simultaneously excited about something and dreading it with every fiber of our being. A new seven part documentary of sorts about Atlantas favorite deeply disappointing football team is another opportunity to exercise those twin impulses.

Dorktown Presents: The History of the Atlanta Falcons is going to be great. Its from SB Nations Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein, who delivered the fantastic Dorktown Presents: The History of the Seattle Mariners last year. That documentary didnt carry the sheen of ESPNs big-budget documentaries, but it did manage to capture exactly the Mariners in all their weird, star-crossed glory, from their most intense ineptitude to their star-studded heights, which were not as high as you might expect given the talent on hand. If you havent seen it, you should check it out.

When Bois teased a new team-focused series of videos on Tuesday, I had exactly zero information to indicate that it would be the Falcons the duo would chronicle, but a gut feeling it would be. If you were going to dive into NFL teams with bizarre, sometimes wonderful, often tragic histories, youd probably focus on a small set of franchises that include the Lions, Browns, Vikings, Bills and our Falcons. Given this teams recent history and some games I really am getting tired of talking about, they felt like a logical choice for a series thats heavy on graphs, numbers and oddities. Here we are.

It goes without saying that the Falcons have provided plenty of material. A deeply lousy franchise throughout much of the first 30 years of their existence, Atlanta nevertheless hosted Hall of Famers, traded them and sometimes even let them walk in free agency. They had genuinely wonderful seasons that fell short, unbelievably terrible seasons featuring statistically unlikely things, and a lot of this is the first time this has happened in NFL history moments throughout. We love them dearly and were in the midst of preparing for what might be a middle-of-the-road season, but this video series will likely be a much more comprehensive reminder of the weird, dispiriting and thrilling ways this team has operated than youve gotten from things like our season snapshots and Forgotten Falcons series over the years.

Well see exactly when the series lands, but Ill encourage you all to check it out when it does, and well likely put together at least one writeup on it. Joe Ali and Kofie Yeboah from Secret Base will also be making appearances and theyre both gifted story tellers, and longtime SB Nation reporter and jaded, diehard Falcons fans Steven Godfrey (who you may remember from SB Nation Atlanta, if youve been around awhile) will also be contributing. Stay tuned for updates and subscribe to Secret Bases YouTube channel if you havent to this point.

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Secret Base to roll out 7 part Dorktown Presents: The History of the Atlanta Falcons series in August - The Falcoholic