The ideal Atlanta Falcons Halloween costume for 2020
What does the ultimate Atlanta Falcons Halloween costume have to have?
Halloween is a night to celebrate all that is weird and different among us. It is a night where you can dress up as anything you want to be and are rewarded with the treats along the way.
As we know the Atlanta Falcons have been anything but a treat to the fans around the world over the last three seasons and they continue to trick us into believing that things are going to turn around.
That said, what does a Falcons Halloween costume have to have?
By and large, most of the country is chilly the night of Halloween and many states already have snow on the ground, so an Atlanta Falcons costume has to have tops and bottoms. There are also has to be other elements involved that provide a perfect description of the franchise over the last decade.
Here is what the perfect Atlanta Falcons costume looks like in 2020.
Headwear
Normally, if you are dressing up as an NFL football player, you would wear an actual helmet, but that would be too easy here. Instead, this Atlanta Falcons Halloween costume would have a dunce cap for headwear.
You remember what a dunce cap is? It is that long pointed witch looking cap that spelled “dunce” across the front and it told everyone you were in trouble for doing stupid things.
We can all agree that starting 2-6 warrants a dunce cap considering this team continues to display lapses in judgments such as late hits, stopping the clock late in games, scoring touchdowns instead of taking knees, calling timeouts just to kick a field goal and the list can go on and on.
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Of course, you are going to wear a jersey as part of the costume, that is no brainer but whose number and jersey are you going to wear?
The Atlanta Falcons are embarrassing, no matter how you want to spin it or who you want to blame. When you are embarrassed, you are hoping that people do not recognize you at that moment, so the best jersey to wear in this instance – Ron Mexico’s number 7.
You remember Ron don’t you? That was Michael Vicks‘s fake name he used to get STD tested at a clinic in hopes that no one would recognize him. More than 10 years later this is still one of the funniest stories of the Vick Era in Atlanta.
On the back of that jersey, there has to be a red cape.
Not for superhero reasons but rather in honor of the matador.
While matadors don’t wear red capes, they do use them to tease the bull as they run by them. This is only appropriate since for years the Atlanta Falcons offensive line has yelled “Olé” as the opposing defensive line has run past them on their way to obliterating Matt Ryan’s soul.
The offensive line has to be something that is addressed in a major way by the next general manager and head coach. Whether the quarterback next year is Matt Ryan or some young guy, they deserve to be protected better than Matt has been during his career.
Accessories
Accessories can make or break a Halloween costume and there are two very important accessories that the ultimate Atlanta Falcons costume has to have.
The first is a no choke cover cap – something that most parents know very well.
As we pointed out above, the Falcons have choked quite a few leads in games away. Whether you are talking about Super Bowl 51 or the three games this season when the Falcons had a win probability of 99 percent.
Of course, the other accessory has to be something that you can collect candy in, so you have to have the same type of bag that former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan momentarily lost during the media day before Super Bowl 51.
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At this point, you are ready to go to any neighborhood or any costume party and represent your favorite but heartbreaking 2-6 NFL football team, the Atlanta Falcons.
Have some fun tonight, and while we are clearly joking in an attempt to mask the pain of another lost season in the Hall of Fame careers of Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, we all hope that by next Halloween, the franchise will be headed in a much different direction than they have been the last three.