Falcons franchise owner Arthur Blank plans to take all of the team’s employees to Houston for the Super Bowl. The team employs about 500 people.
No further details of Blank’s plans were available on Monday, the day after the Falcons beat the Packers for the NFC championship. The Falcons will play the AFC champion Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.
“Football is the ultimate team sport and it goes way beyond the people you see on the field,” Falcons president Rich McKay said in an emailed statement. “It takes a lot of people to operate a successful NFL team and the staff works very, very hard all year round. Arthur loves the associates and one of our core values is ‘Include Everyone.’ He wants those who have helped our team reach the Super Bowl to have the chance to see the game live in Houston.”
Blank would not be the first NFL franchise owner to take all of his employees to the Super Bowl along with the team.
The owners of both the Panthers and the Broncos paid for all of their employees to go to the 2016 Super Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif.
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