Hot Diggity Daffodil! No Atlanta Blackout.

Local Atlanta businesses, including Flagstar Bank and WAGA-TV, bought the remaining tickets to Sunday's game against the Buccaneers, preventing a second straight blackout and saving me from having to step foot downtown.

Tickets remained available for the 1 p.m. Sunday game on Ticketmaster.com Thursday night, well after the 72-hour deadline had passed, and the Falcons would have faced their second consecutive TV blackout if not for their business partners' intervention.

The article doesn't explain how the Falcons will avoid the blackout when there were still tickets available after the deadline had passed. That would have been a nice question to answer, don't you think? Normally I would take this opportunity to point out the shoddy reporting and questioning the author's heritage, but since the story is good news for me, screw it.

I mean, really... have you seen the fans around the GeorgiaDome? It's like a scene from Dr. Moreau. Except for this guy, who is awesome.