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The 2012 season was the Atlanta Falcons' 47th in the National Football League (NFL) and the fifth under head coach Mike Smith.Atlanta started the season 8–0, a franchise best for a start to a season.
The Falcons appeared in two Super Bowl championships—Super Bowl XXXIII and Super Bowl LI—losing to the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, respectively. The Falcons have won the NFC Championship twice and a division title six times, winning the NFC West twice (1978 and 1998) and the NFC South four times (2004, 2010, 2012 and 2016 ...
The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season, a 20–7 loss to the Miami Dolphins. The team went 4–8–2 in 1970. [ 29 ] The only two winning seasons in their first 12 years were 1971 (7–6–1) and 1973 (9–5).
The 2012 NFL season was the 93rd season of the National Football League (NFL) and the 47th of the Super Bowl era. It began on Wednesday, September 5, 2012, with the defending Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants falling to the Dallas Cowboys in the 2012 NFL Kickoff game at MetLife Stadium, and ended with Super Bowl XLVII, the league's championship game, on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at the ...
The November 26 Miami Dolphins–Pittsburgh Steelers contest was the lowest-scoring game in Monday Night Football's 38-year history; it threatened to become the first scoreless NFL game since 1943 until just 17 seconds remaining, when Steelers kicker Jeff Reed booted a 24-yard field goal to win it, 3–0. Both offenses were stymied by a heavy ...
Kirk Cousins threw for a franchise-record 509 yards on Thursday Night Football as the Atlanta Falcons mounted another dramatic comeback to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36-30 in overtime.
Atlanta Falcons (2) 13–3: Lost Divisional playoffs 21–48 2011: New Orleans Saints (3) 13–3: Won Wild Card playoffs 45–28 Lost Divisional playoffs (at 49ers) 32–36 2012: Atlanta Falcons (3) 13–3: Won Divisional playoffs 30–28 Lost NFC Championship 24–28 2013: Carolina Panthers (3) 12–4
The Cincinnati Bengals–Kansas City Chiefs game flexed into Sunday Night on October 21 became the earliest the NFL has ever flexed a Sunday Night Football contest. The Atlanta Falcons–New Orleans Saints game on Thanksgiving night was called by the Football Night in America studio crew, with Mike Tirico doing the play-by-play, and Tony Dungy ...