Former All-Pro linebacker Tommy Nobis had the most severe form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive blows to the head, when he died last year, ...
Tommy Nobis was Mr. Falcon. You may not remember him. I understand. He played a long time ago. But I sure do. Before Super Bowls and Dirty Birds and Prime Time and the Grits Blitz, Nobis was the ...
The 25th annual Galaxy of Stars luncheon is scheduled for noon-1:30 p.m. April 28 at the Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker St. NW, Atlanta to benefit the Tommy Nobis Center nonprofit. “The incredible ...
The Atlanta Falcons will pay tribute to Tommy Nobis, the legendary linebacker known as "Mr. Falcon," on Monday night by wearing a No. 60 sticker on the back of their helmet. Nobis died last week after ...
ATLANTA - Monday night the Atlanta Falcons will wear a special helmet decal honoring Mister Falcon, Tommy Nobis who passed away earlier this week. The sticker with the number "60" will honor the man ...
Before the last Super Bowl, Tommy Nobis' family tried to tell him that his old team, Atlanta, was in the game. The organization that called him Mr. Falcon. The franchise he gave 11 outstanding seasons ...
Tommy Nobis, former University of Texas football player and the first player drafted by the expansion Atlanta Falcons, died Wednesday. He was 74. Nobis participated in the Longhorns' 1963 national ...
Before starring at Texas as an All-American linebacker and going on to a stellar 11-year career in the NFL, Tommy Nobis was a San Antonio high school football legend. A standout at Jefferson in the ...
ATLANTA — Tommy Nobis, the first player drafted by the expansion Atlanta Falcons and a hard-hitting middle linebacker who was never fully recognized for his talents on a struggling franchise that ...
It’s not often that two players from the same high school, much less the same class, get selected by the same team in the same NFL draft. But that’s what happened in 1966 when the Atlanta Falcons, ...
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2009, file photo, former Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowler Tommy Nobis (60), the first player ever drafted by the franchise, is introduced along with other members of the 1966 ...