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Effort to bring Falcons to Hall County in 99 was heavily involved process
TimesFront 09221999
The Times’ front page of Sept. 22, 1999, celebrated the team’s plans to move its headquarters to Flowery Branch, some eight months after the Falcons played in their first and only Super Bowl. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Frank Norton Jr. recalls it clearly: The buzz in the spring of 1999 was that the Atlanta Falcons were looking to move to Stone Mountain. “Something in the back of my head says they’re not,” said the Hall County real estate executive and one of the chief brokers in helping bring the team to Hall. Norton was at the beach in July when he got a call from Tommy Nobis, then the Falcons’ vice president of corporate development, asking if Hall’s “deal was still back on the table.”
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