The Falcons moved into the Georgia Dome for the 1992 season.

They have played 204 games at the Dome.

They won 116 regular season games, and three-of-five playoff games (before Saturday's NFC Divisional Game against the Seattle Seahawks) at the Dome.

Fans in the Dome saw Hall of Fame performances by Deion Sanders and Tony Gonzalez.

It has seen the development of quarterback Matt Ryan, who in 69 games at the Georgia Dome has thrown 2,318 passes for 18,163 yards and 117 touchdowns.

The Dome has seen its share of Falcons successes and frustrations. One of its biggest was the 2012 NFC Championship Game. The Falcons hosted San Francisco for a spot in the Super Bowl. It was one of the franchise's biggest accomplishments and toughest defeats.

This is how the AJC's Steve Hummer described it on Jan. 21, 2013:

"In a business where disappointment is to scale --- the bigger the game, the more you expose your heart --- the Falcons discovered a new level of torment Sunday. After 46 years of practice, followers of this franchise have learned to swallow the rout and digest the common defeat.

This 28-24 loss to San Francisco in the first-ever NFC Championship game in Atlanta was a whole other species of loss. This one took a fan base on a careening ride to the very lip of the greatest Falcons home victory ... and then off the edge, down a steep, dark bank.

They should be hitting bottom right about now.

And come two weeks it will be somebody else's Super Bowl. Yet again.

The fall was felt by all, from the owner's box to the Georgia Dome's upper deck to the countless homes where the drama played out in crystalline high-def TV.

'In the case of Home Depot, if we had a bad day in the stores, they opened up the next day for business,' Falcons owner Arthur Blank said afterward. '(In the NFL) we have to wait a while to get back into this position again and hopefully come up with a different result.'

As she trudged out of the Dome Sunday evening, Lawrenceville's Andee Gay said she heard the same sentiment from all the fans around her:

'If this, if that. If just one play goes differently, the outcome might have been different,' she said.

For the Falcons had come out with a raptor's cold-blooded intent, hurrying to a 17-0 second-quarter lead. Just as a week ago in the playoff game against Seattle, a similar lead slithered from their grasp. Unlike that game, the Falcons could not make the play at the end that would swing the result their way.

This time, a fourth-down pass to Roddy White from the San Francisco 10 with 1:13 to play hit the ground, and all reasonable hope was buried at that spot."