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By Don Stone - Football Atlanta
There are several Georgia
Tech Yellow Jacket connections in this week's NFC Championship Game with the
Falcons.
* There are three former Georgia Tech players on the Atlanta Falcons roster. Fullback Mike Cox and defensive tackle Vance Walker are on the active roster. WR Kevin Cone is on injured reserve.
*
Falcons
offensive line coach Pat Hill was the last coach to beat Georgia Tech
before Paul Johnson came on board.
Hill was the head coach at Fresno State in 2007 when his Bulldogs beat
interim Tech coach Jon Tenuta and the Yellow Jackets 40-28
in the Humanitarian Bowl.
* The radio voice of the Falcons, Wes Durham, is also the radio voice of Georgia Tech.
* The first Georgia Tech player drafted
by the Falcons was WR Jimmy Robinson in 1975.
Robinson is currently the wide receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys.
* The most recent Yellow Jacket drafted by Atlanta was Vance Walker in 2009. Walker was a seventh-round selection.
* One of the more prominent Tech grads to play for the Falcons was Keith Brooking, who played 11 seasons in Atlanta, from 1998-08.
* Since 1970, the Falcons have drafted
six Georgia Tech players, tying the Baltimore franchise for the most Yellow
Jackets
taken by an NFL team since '70.
* In the AFC Championship game, Patriots tight ends coach is George Godsey, one of Georgia Tech's most prolific quarterbacks.
* Former Yellow Jacket Anthony Allen is on the Baltimore Ravens' active roster.
* Ravens Vice President of Football Administration Pat Moriarty played football at Georgia Tech in the mid-1970s.
* James Liipfert, who played his senior season under Paul Johnson at Tech in 2008, is an area scout for the New England Patriots.
