Hello all,

This Saturday, I'll be hopping on a plane and crossing the Pond to visit your part of the world - a road-trip with some friends around Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, culminating in watching the Bears game at the Georgia Dome on Sunday 18th. I am, of course, ridiculously excited about this.

I've been in touch with tloz and he has been extremely generous with his time and given me lots of good advice. But as he is busy getting married this week, I thought maybe some of you guys could help me out with a little last-minute local knowledge...

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Yeah, that's pretty much it... it's about half one on Xmas morning in the UK, I'm drunk, and I just thought I'd wish all you Falcoholics a most excellent Christmas.

It's been a great season (my first NFL season, I really lucked out), and let's hope we can go on from here. Thanks to all of you for being awesome, and thanks to the Falcons for being even more super-awesome than you.

Apologies if someone has already posted this, but:

The Times newspaper has a competition on to win a trip for two to watch the Falcons @ Saints game in New Orleans on December 7th... Looks like it's only open to UK & Ireland residents though. Closing date for entries is November 14th, so get cracking.

(The runner-up prize is sucky though - a bunch of Saints v Chargers merchandise. But if you win that, you could at least have fun ceremonially burning it in your back yard.)

Enter here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/commercial/article5001480.ece