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Falcons fans light up City Park for scrimmage event
More than 14,000 fill Gainesville field to welcome local NFL team
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Freddie Falcon grabs Nasir Stephens' nose after signing an autograph before the Atlanta Falcons take to the practice field Friday evening. Nasir, 7, is from Winder. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Thousands of Atlanta Falcons fans anxiously waited in line for several hours prior to the gates opening in order to secure a good seat for Friday night’s scrimmage. Turns out, there weren’t enough seats for all the fans that stood in long lines that wrapped around Gainesville’s City Park Stadium. A crowd of more than 14,000 fans filed into the home of the Red Elephants for the Falcons’ annual Friday Night Lights intrasquad scrimmage.