The new home stadium of the Atlanta Falcons could one day share a similar name to the home of the New Orleans Saints. According to a report in Sports Business Daily, Mercedes-Benz will acquire the naming rights to the still under construction stadium in Downtown Atlanta.
The Atlanta Falcons have been fined $350,000 by the NFL and will lose a fifth-round draft pick for piping in fake crowd noise for the past two seasons.
For Saints fans, this is rock bottom: being eliminated from playoff contention by the Falcons at home in the Dome. To make it worse, the loss was fitting.
The New Orleans Saints opened up their 2014 regular season schedule on a sour note on Sunday afternoon, falling to the Atlanta Falcons, 37-34, in overtime, in an NFC South shootout at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.