Weather Channel reporter trolls Atlanta Falcons' Super Bowl loss amid Hurricane Milton's surge
The Atlanta Falcons will never escape their Super Bowl LI nightmare.
Famously allowing Tom Brady and the New England Patriots to come back from a 28-3 deficit in the second half to win the game, the Falcons have been trolled for blowing the largest halftime lead in Super Bowl history more than once since that day.
Because why not — on Wednesday night after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, a Weather Channel reporter in the eye of the storm warned locals of a second surge that would hit the area after the eye passed. He used the Falcons’ loss to get his point across.
“Enjoy the little halftime show that Mother Nature gave us inside of Milton, but now we’ve got the second half. And I have to remind everyone who might still be in the eye now that there’s a lot more to go,” he said about the hurricane. “I think back to the Atlanta Falcons. First half Super Bowl winners. We know what happened in the second half with the Patriots came back to life, so do not sleep on the second half of Milton. We are definitely concerned now with the [second-half] surge.”
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The report was made in Sarasota, Florida, which is directly south of Tampa.
Ironically, the Falcons’ last game was a 36-30 overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Quarterback Kirk Cousins threw for 509 yards during the contest, which included a 45-yard touchdown pass from Cousins to KhaDarel Hodge through the heart of the Tampa defense.
As for the hurricane, Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida as a Category 3 before weakening to a Category 2 as continued to pass over the state. The third hurricane to hit Florida this year, power has already been knocked out for over 1.6 million people as of Wednesday night. Wind gusts of over 100 miles per hour were reported near Tampa as well, according to CNN’s live coverage of the surge.