From the regular season to the playoffs, week after week, there is no time or space to breathe and adjust except for off-season weeks and wild card byes.

Every game and every match is played in between, and over the course of a week, teams will be able to quickly adjust within a short break and then concentrate on the next matchup, which is not an easy task, but it is the daily routine of the professional league.

However, after entering the playoffs, time seems to start to accelerate, and it is also a week of rest, but it seems that it is just taking a breath, and the federation final is officially in front of us.

On January 20, two federation finals were staged: at 3 p.m. Eastern time, the Nations League finals were the first to start; Then at 6:30 p.m. ET, the American League final followed.

Although the two league finals can be described as strong matchups, in comparison, the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots are both old powerhouses in the league, and the fan base is more solid and extensive; At the same time, there are more top superstars, which are slightly better in terms of publicity gimmicks and explosive points.

After careful consideration, the league officially arranged the American League final in a night game.

As a result, the top seeds of the National League, the San Francisco 49ers, will be on the court in the afternoon - at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, which is 12 p.m. Western Time, and it will be a matchup that will take place at midday, and the team will sit at home to face the Atlanta Falcons, the second seed of the National League.

After the opening of the regular season this season, the San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons were two teams that were bright for a while, and the strong winning streak has always been consistent, from three consecutive wins all the way to nine consecutive wins.

Unfortunately, in the end, it was the Atlanta Falcons who were the first to end the winning streak by their rivals in the same district, the New Orleans Saints, which ended the pattern of the two heroes.

But there is no doubt that the Atlanta Falcons remain one of the standout teams this season, in fact, one of the most successful seasons in franchise history.

The team was founded in 1965 when Rankin-M-Smith, an insurance executive in Atlanta, founded the Falcons, and when fans voted for the team's name, several fans suggested the name "Falcons," but only Julia-Elliott, a middle school teacher from a neighboring city, emerged as the winner.

She chose the name because "the falcon is proud and noble because of its bravery and fighting, and it never leaves its prey, which is like a traditional virtue on the field of sport." ”

That's what the Atlanta Falcons are all about.

This is a young team compared to other long-established teams in the league, and at the same time it is not a traditional powerhouse, it has not had a strong presence in the league, it has never won the Super Bowl, and in 47 seasons so far, it has reached the playoffs 12 times, including five of them, which is not a dazzling record.

But it's worth mentioning that six of the twelve playoff appearances have occurred after the turn of the millennium; Three of the five divisional victories have come in the middle of the new century. In other words, the team has ushered in a radical transformation in the 21st century, becoming a powerhouse in the South Division of the National League.

To be precise, the rise of the Atlanta Falcons took place during the 1998 season.

In 1997, the year before the 1998 season, legendary coach Dan-Reeves took charge of the team and brought in Chris Chandler, a veteran quarterback who had been wandering in the league for nearly a decade and still inactive, and Jamal-Anderson, a seven-round 201 overall running back selected by the team in its own draft.

Originally, the team seemed to have no bright spots, but under the right permutations and combinations, sparks were rubbed, and after a season of polishing, it bloomed in the 1998 season, not only winning the division championship, but also entering the Super Bowl in one go, meeting the defending champion Denver Broncos, only to lose the game with a score of "19:34".

In fact, neither quarterback Chandler nor running guard Jamal Anderson were the league's top legends, and after the 1998 season, they gradually faded into obscurity, and it seemed that all the energy of their careers exploded in one season.

But there's no denying that this season has been a successful transformation for the Falcons, from draft building to player introduction, and then after the league redivision in 2002, they became a powerhouse in the National League South.

The 1998 season was the only time in the history of the Atlanta Falcons that they reached the Super Bowl. In addition, in the 2004 season, the Falcons also reached the National League finals, but unfortunately lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.

In 2008, the Atlanta Falcons hired Mike-Smith as head coach, and although the coach had been an NFL coach since 1982, he remained an assistant coach on the defensive team until the Falcons boldly promoted him to the head coach position, which was another turning point for the team.

Mike Smith took over and drafted quarterback Matt Ryan with a first-round pick in that year's draft, and the offensive team had the most important piece of the puzzle, making the playoffs four times in the five years since, including two division titles in 2010 and 2012, and they have shown to be very competitive even against the New Orleans Saints at their peak.

It's no exaggeration to say that the Atlanta Falcons are now in the most competitive period in franchise history, with a 13-3 record this season, replicating the success of 2010, but playing better on both the offensive and defensive ends.

In the 2010 season, after the Atlanta Falcons entered the playoffs, they lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers with a score of "21-48"; This season, the Atlanta Falcons faced the Green Bay Packers again in the playoffs, but they made no mistake and kept the victory to the end with a "37-35" victory, avoiding a repeat of the same mistake.

Now, standing opposite them is the San Francisco 49ers, who are still unbeaten so far this season!

At one time, the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers were sworn enemies in the same district.

From 1970 to 2001, before the league was repartitioned, the two teams were also part of the National League West Division and had met 62 times in history, and the San Francisco 49ers, who had the upper hand, had a head-to-head advantage, and the Falcons had an overall record of 24-38.

But interestingly, these encounters all came from the regular season, and the two teams have never faced each other in the playoffs.

On the one hand, the San Francisco 49ers have always been at their peak during this period, and the strength of the two sides is quite different, and they have never even played each other in the playoffs; On the other hand, 10 years have passed since the re-division in 2002, and the number of times the two teams have played each other has become even more limited, and the atmosphere of so-called rivalry in the same district has long since disappeared.

Now it's time again, there's not a lot of-for-tat between the two teams, the smell of gunpowder has become much thinner, it's all about winning the game, and they're all hoping to get back on the Super Bowl stage, the Falcons last played Super Bowl in 1998, and the 49ers go back a little further back to 1994, a long wait, looking forward to a breakthrough this year.

Purely from the perspective of strength, this game is undoubtedly Mars hitting the Earth, not only a series of numbers of wins and losses in the regular season, but also a spark of the duel can be foreseen from the hard power aspect-

In the offensive group, the San Francisco 49ers are third in the league and the Atlanta Falcon league is sixth; In the defensive group, the San Francisco 49ers are second in the league and the Atlanta Falcons are fifth.

In addition to the Denver Broncos, the San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons are the two most average and strongest teams in terms of overall strength, and they have always maintained the top two positions in the official power rankings.

If the American League final is a "contradiction war", a duel between offense and defense; Then the final of the League of Nations is "all offensive and full defense", an all-round competition in different links.

At the end of the first half of the season, the entire league began to look forward to this encounter, and the mainstream view is that this is bound to be one of the highlights of this season's National League.

Much to look forward to! Absolutely highly anticipated!

Incidentally, the last time the two teams met was in the fourth week of the regular season in 2010, when the San Francisco 49ers, who were at a low point, lost to the rising Atlanta Falcons by a narrow score of 14-16.

For Lu Ke, this is a brand new opponent!

Everything from the players to the tactics, from the style to the way they are done, is brand new, which means he has to give it his all, and the slightest negligence can cost them the hard work and hard work of the whole season. Although the opponent is not the Aaron Rodgers expected by the media, Lu Ke knows that Matt Ryan's threat is definitely not inferior to any quarterback in the league!

During last year's Pro Bowl, Lu Ke and Matt Lane became friends, and although they didn't usually communicate much, their relationship was extraordinary; Unexpectedly, this year they are about to stand on the court and fight for a Super Bowl seat, can this be regarded as a kind of fate?

In the blink of an eye, race day is here! It's the Nations League final again, and it's sitting on the Candlestick Stadium again, so what about the ending this time?

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