Tony Gonzalez, Atlanta Falcons tight end, says it’s a fifty fifty chance he will retire following the 2010 season.

On Monday Gonzalez said to Fox Sports, it’s a year by year thing. Maybe I will end up playing three to four years. I’m sure I could. There are many different factors. I probably will return, but I never know. I will wait.

The 34 year old Gonzalez has been in the Pro Bowl ten times. Last year was the first sine 1998 that he missed making an appearance as an all star. During his first season as an Atlanta Falcon he caught 83 passes for a total of 867 yards receiving and scored six touchdowns.

Michael Turner, Falcons running back, can catch the football indeed.

That was one glimmering highlight that could be gleaned from the 20-10 victory of the Falcons over the Chiefs on Friday night in the exhibition opener in the Georgia Dome.

Although it was jut one catch, it did show an area where Atlanta is planning to diversify their offense. The crowd of 65,726 lightly applauded the play.

Atlanta opened the game with involving Turner in the offense’s first four plays. Turner carried the ball twice, had one catch, and then ran the ball again. The most impressive of the plays was his first carry. Turner made a gain of 7 yards after moving the pile.

On Friday when the Falcons head to their first training camp practice, there shouldn’t be any big distractions.

The Falcons announced that Sean Weatherspoon, the team’s last unsigned player and first round pick, on Thursday evening signed a contract of five years.

It was a $17.5 million contract with $10.5 million of it guaranteed.

Weatherspoon, Missouri linebacker, signed a few hours prior to the first meeting for the team. Weatherspoon was the nineteenth overall selection in this year’s draft.

A majority of Falcons players arrived in luxury cars at the team’s amenities building to check in earlier that day to their living quarters. However Weatherspoon was absent. His agent and team were still hammering out the details of his contract.

An Atlanta Falcons employee had an ad campaign idea that was potentially cool- using the slogan “Rise Up” with a gospel chorus singing it. However, they needed to find someone who was persuasive enough to sell their slogan. They succeeded in finding him.

On Thursday at 10 am the Atlanta Falcons will be placing their single game tickets on sale for this upcoming season.

Purchases of single game tickets can be made online via www.ticketmaster.com or www.atlantafalcons.com. Tickets can be ordered via Ticketmaster by phone as well at 1-800-745-3000. In person fans can purchase tickets by Visiting Ticketmaster outlets in the Atlanta metro area. The prices for single game tickets run $55 to $150.

When making predictions about the Super Bowl, people have a tendency of either focusing on the previous year’s powerhouse teams (defending conference champions for example) or teams just a cut under the level of a powerhouse team (such as teams losing a conference championship game). Those can be called the power condo teams. Once in a while a brave soul will come along that’s too smart to stay out of trouble. Thinking of teams like the Rams in 1999 or Patriots in 2001, the individual predicts one of the bottom feeder teams. We can refer to this as the power shack team that comes from nowhere and wins it all.

At a listed weight of 244 pounds, Michael Turner is one big running back on the roster of the Falcons. However a year ago Turner has admitted that he was even bigger.

Turner told SI.com’s Jim Trotter, if you look back at some last year’s pics of me, I probably look big, bigger than I normally do. I was too heavy then. That was hard to overcome.

For the third year in a row, the Falcons program “Fright Night Lights” will stay in Gwinnett County. The event took place at Grady High School and then in 2008 at Hill Creek High and in 2009 at Brookwood High. The scrimmage “Friday Night Lights” will take place on August 6 at 7:30 pm in Suwanee at North Gwinnett High. Admission for the scrimmage is free and it is open for the public.

This year the Falcons desperately need John Abraham to play well if they want to have a shot at keeping up with the New Orleans Saints. John Abraham is a terrific pass rusher. However in 2009 he had only 5 ½ sacks, whereas the year before he had 16 ½. Five times throughout his career the defensive end has had sack totals in the double digits. However, he recently turned 32. There is some concern that Abraham’s play may be slipping. In simple terms, the Falcons can’t afford this to be true.

Some time during the next couple of years the Atlanta Falcons will probably stopping playing at the Georgia Dome. Rich McKay, team President, says when that happens the team will probably end up playing outdoors. In an interview with Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McKay said the Falcons think an outdoor stadium would make more sense for other events as well as football. McKay said, an open air stadium will help us pursue the World Cup as a great region and city. It will help in attracting World Cup games for 2018 or 2022. This would give us a dramatic economic impact to the area. We definitely think open air will help us in the bidding process.