{"id":67723,"date":"2021-05-06T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=67723"},"modified":"2021-05-06T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:02:00","slug":"atlanta-falcons-nickname-history-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=67723","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Falcons nickname history explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons were founded in 1965, but little do fans know they were almost called &#8220;The Atlanta Peaches.&#8221; The Atlanta Falcons nickname history stretches back 56 years to when the team was first introduced into the NFL. In June of 1965, 41-year-old Rankin M. Smith, who worked as a life insurance executive, bought the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/2021\/05\/05\/atlanta-falcons-nickname-history-explained\/\">Atlanta Falcons nickname history explained<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\">FanSided<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\">FanSided &#8211; Sports News, Entertainment, Lifestyle &amp; Technology &#8211; 300+ Sites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Atlanta Falcons were founded in 1965, but little do fans know they were almost called \u201cThe Atlanta Peaches.\u201d The Atlanta Falcons nickname history stretches back 56 years to when the team was first introduced into the NFL. In June of 1965, 41-year-old Rankin M. Smith, who worked as a life insurance executive, bought the [\u2026]<br \/>\nAtlanta Falcons nickname history explained &#8211; FanSided &#8211; FanSided &#8211; Sports News, Entertainment, Lifestyle &amp; Technology &#8211; 300+ Sites<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67725,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67723\/revisions\/67725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}