The Atlanta Falcons welcome the following to Monday Night Football as the Cincinnati Bengals visit the Georgia Dome:
National Anthem
Jason Coley Byrd
Jason Coley Byrd was born April 17, 1987 to a real estate broker father and telecommunications manager mother. He was raised in the sleepy little community of Cedar Grove outside the bustling city of Atlanta.
Jason graduated from Landmark Christian High School in 2005. Following his first year at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Ga. where he studied Wildlife Management, Jason returned home to perform at Six Flags Over Georgia’s Crystal Pistol Theatre. He tirelessly performed in over 225 shows in the “Honky Tonk Saturday Night Show” where his audience regarded him as a real crowd pleaser.
He loved the crowds and performing country songs, but he then made a tough decision to move his focus totally on his music.
In March 2007 at CRS week in Nashville, Jason completed a three-day performance schedule at Tootsie’s, The Legends Café and The Nashville Palace.
He was Inde Islands eMagazine's featured artist at the 2007 CMA Music Fest where he autographed photos for his overjoyed fans. Also during Fan Fest Jason performed at NewCountryStar.com’s VIP Party and showed off his pipes in front of some of Music Row’s managers, publishers and promoters.
Jason is currently promoting new songs on his recently recorded four song demo titled, ‘Jason Coley’ by way of NewCountryStar.com’s own talent contest. He is up against three other country music songwriters/singers with great hopes of making his mark in country music. He is also taking time out of his extremely busy schedule to do radio interviews where his new songs ‘Get Plowed,' ‘Shotgun,' ‘Mississippi Rolls’ and ‘Red Wine and Whiskey’ are played. All of these songs are currently in rotation at various radio stations all over the globe.
For information on Jason check out www.myspace.com/jasonbyrd101 or www.jasoncoleybyrd.com.
Color Guard
The Joint Force Headquarters Honor Guard
The Georgia Army National Guard, Joint Force Headquarters Honor Guard includes first sergeant James Grady, staff sergeant Gerard Brown, sergeant Shemeshia Green and specialist Veronique Bailey (not pictured). The Honor Guard has performed numerous color guard and funeral details all across the state of Georgia. The Honor Guard was a vital asset during the deployment of Georgia’s 48th Infantry Brigade in 2006, participating in several funeral details and paying respect to fallen comrades. These soldiers have shown an enormous amount of selfless service by volunteering missions on non duty days or on holidays to ensure the representation of the National Colors are present. This team epitomizes the Georgia Army National Guard with great pride, and always makes their higher command proud.
Halftime
Etowah Eagles Youth Football vs. Freddie and Friends
Freddie Falcon and his closest mascot friends will take on the 10 and 11 year old Etowah Eagles Youth Football Team for the Atlanta Falcons preseason home opener.
The Etowah Eagles Youth Football Team have been a part of the Cherokee Youth Football Association for six years. They offer football and cheer programs which are feeder teams into each of the high schools of Cherokee County.
This team has been successful both on and off the field with growing young men in their community. The head coach of the Etowah Eagles is Jim Fox. He is joined by assistant coaches Ken Brown, Kyle Nicolai and Barry Sturdivant.
