The Falcons won the NFC West Championship in 1980 and 1998, the NFC South championship in 2004, and the NFC championship in 1998 (they also finished with the best record among the four NFC West teams in 1982, but the division standings for that year were used only for the purposes of determining the 1983 regular-season schedules, this being one of the indirect consequences of the 57-day 1982 players' strike). |