SB Nation's Andrew Sharp hails from the same general portion of the world that ESPN calls home, but our man gets Atlanta a little bit better than the rest of his countrymen do in his weekly NFL picks column:

 If we end up witnessing the first in-stadium race war in NFL history on Sunday night, at least we'll have Cris Collinsworth around to awkwardly avoid the issue!    

Michael Vick's enduring Atlanta popularity is more complicated than the average TV man makes it out to be ("They all love Vick down there!"), and there's a lot of nuance left over to discuss if we really must, but I think we can all agree that watching NBC's crew try to parse the crowd's allegiances on the fly Sunday night will make up for any on-field setbacks.

For more, head to Falcons blog The Falcoholic and Eagles blog Bleeding Green Nation.