Lots of fun - the booklets give you the rules and help you identify the roles of the players…read more BYOB- coolers allowed Concessions were similar to a high school basketball game Purchase tickets online and skip the line Good times!

When I first heard about the Atlanta Roller Girls a couple years back, it briefly crossed my mind…read morethat it would be cool to be a Roller Girl. After seeing my first 'bout' this weekend, two conclusions: 1) Yes. It would indeed be awesome to be an Atlanta Roller Girl in general. and 2) No. It would not be awesome to be a Roller Girl for ME specifically because I would whine about getting hurt, and probably try to instinctively dodge the other girls instead of whack! bam! smack! hitting them like they're supposed to. So, with shattered daydreams about my potential career as a Roller Girl, the second best thing to do, of course, is tell you why you should go watch 'em. The lovely ladies are all doing their bad arse rollin' and derby-ing for the passion . . .and not for the money, because, well, there isn't any. They are all much tougher than I, and nary a tear did I see. You can tell that they're having a good time, there's a ton of team camaraderie and of course, having fun wearing their crazy and fun 'uniforms.' With team like the Denim Demons and Toxic Shock, there are quite a few opportunities for creativity! As a spectator, aside from the roller derby action, the best part I must say is the BYOB functionality. You certainly can't BYOB (well. openly.) to a Braves game, now can ya? And the randomness that they are in the Yaarab Shrine Center on Ponce. Like, girls in skates and fishnets play in the the same place the dudes with tassel hats hang out. You can buy fried shrimp, roller girl t-shirts, and watch the Atlanta teams go head to head, then stick around for the out of town team games and show your Atlanta home team spirit. Their season runs March thru September, and the 2008 season opener tickets sold out a few days before the actual bouts, so plan ahead! The closest I'll come to actually being a Roller Girl is sitting on the front row danger zone, where girls slid into the audience a couple times. But with my BYOB and a comfy spot in the stands? Definitely how I like to roll.

The Atlanta Falcons are my favorite NFL team…read more Born and raised in North Carolina, the Carolina Panthers were my first favorite team as soon as they were formed in 1995. The Panthers had immediate success in only their 2nd season (1996 season), making it to the NFC Championship game where they eventually lost to in-his-prime Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers in January 1997. Just a couple years after that, it was the "Dirty Birds" who made noise. The Falcons won the NFC Championship in January 1999. They went on to lose to John Elway and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXIII. That Falcons team, coached by Dan Reeves, with players like future-hall-of-famer Morten Andersen, running back Jamal Anderson, and corner Ray Buchanan, made an impression on me. Since middle school (maybe earlier), I've always rooted for underdogs. I've never been a bandwagon fan and rarely root for dynasties or favorites unless I truly liked that team. In the 90s, I never rooted for the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Packers, or Broncos. That's what I liked about Atlanta and Carolina. They were underdogs and I wanted to see them make history. I distinctly remember talking about both the Falcons and Panthers in high school. Kerry Collins and the Dirty Birds were hot topics at the time. To this day, both the Falcons and Panthers, fellow members of the NFC South, have yet to win a Super Bowl. Both teams have made it to the Super Bowl twice. The Panthers were able to do it in a lot less time than the Falcons, whose first season was in 1966. But enough about the Panthers - I'll review them separately. I moved from North Carolina to Atlanta in 2000 to attend Georgia Tech. It didn't take long for me to switch allegiances, at least as far as my No. 1 teams were concerned. I became a bigger NFL fan after I moved to Atlanta. Mike Vick had something to do with that. Also being a college football fan, I was well aware that Mike Vick was one of the best players in the country when he played for Virginia Tech (1999 and 2000). Georgia Tech was supposed to play Mike Vick's Virginia Tech team to start the 2000 season (the fall of my freshman year), but the game got cancelled due to lightning and was never rescheduled. Anyway, the Falcons drafted Vick with the 1st overall pick in the 2001 draft. The rest is history. Vick was the starting quarterback for the Falcons for the majority of the 2001-2006 seasons. The Falcons were mostly mediocre during those years. Regardless, Vick was an incredibly popular player and a regular fixture on SportsCenter because of his exciting style of play as the NFL's top dual-threat quarterback. It certainly got me interested more in the Falcons and the NFL, so much so that I purchased Madden NFL 2004 for the PlayStation 2. Vick was on the cover. It was awesome to have a Falcons player on the cover of the newest Madden game at the time. I played several seasons as the 2003 Falcons. I got to know the NFL rosters really well that way, especially the rosters of the NFC South: Falcons, Panthers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers - the 2002 season champs, and the New Orleans Saints. It was a lot of fun rushing with Vick in that game, the then-modern-day equivalent of Bo Jackson in Tecmo Super Bowl. The top receivers were Peerless Price, Brian Finneran, and Alge Crumpler (tight end) with starting running back Warrick Dunn and backup TJ Duckett. One Christmas Eve around that time (mid-2000s), I made eye contact with Warrick Dunn as he was headed to a set of escalators at Lenox Square with several shopping bags in-hand. He was by himself and it looked like he had just finished doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. Alge Crumpler played college football at North Carolina and was a regular on 790 The Zone, the sports radio station I listened to at the time. I now listen to 92.9 The Game, which is currently the official station of the Falcons. Since 2004, the Falcons' radio play-by-play announcer has been Wes Durham, who was the play-by-play announcer for Georgia Tech football and/or men's basketball games from 1995 to 2013. Of course, Arthur Blank and Matt Ryan have defined the modern era of the Falcons. Blank has owned the Falcons since 2002. He once walked right by me at an Atlanta United open training in 2018. Ryan has been the starting QB since 2008. I first saw Ryan in-person when he led Boston College to a road win over Georgia Tech at Bobby Dodd Stadium. That was 2007 and he was a star senior at BC. I was a big fan of Dan Quinn, the Falcons' head coach from 2015 to 2020. I met Coach Quinn and took a picture with him at a Georgia Tech men's basketball game in 2019. He was just as nice in-person as he was on TV and radio. Of course, Quinn led us to Super Bowl LI in February 2017. To this day, that 2016 Falcons season remains the most memorable and special to me. Matt Ryan was both the NFL MVP and NFL Offensive Player of the Year that season. North Carolina grad Arthur Smith has been the Falcons head coach since 2021.

Fire Kirk today. This game was horrible on 10/26 against miami. I feel this season just went down…read morethe toilet. I won't be watching any games Cousins is in anymore.

Music through the whole game is ridiculous. No basketball game sounds at all just a deejay and rap…read morefor 4 quarters and a halftime. Jumbotro is so big it distracts from the game and shows the game in reverse of what is happening half of the time. All employees were great. Facility is good. Experience is not basketball.

Despite the expensive ticket (the most for any pro sports game in Atlanta) for a .500 team (at the…read moretime of review), the experience at an Atlanta Hawks game is a great one. Friendly staff, a variety of socializing and dining environments, and fantastic in-game entertainment make attending a game in person a must for basketball fans. State Farm arena is a great venue having gone a huge through a renovation in the past few years.

It was the first time my son and I had ever gone to a professional frisbee tournament. The energy…read moreand the accuracy of throwing a frisbee wowed me! It was a great experience.Go Atlanta Hustle!!!

Great time at The Atlanta Hustle Professional Ultimate Frisbee game tonight; they are 6-0 on the…read moreseason. At halftime we're allowed on the field to toss frisbees. The home team had maybe 850 fans on this holiday weekend and attendance can get to 1200 - 1500 for this 3000+ seat arena. The atmosphere was energetic, the game exciting, and the play intense. The Hustle do not own or manage the facility, which is very suitable for the game. Overall the team is a good product.