Arthur Blank has built Atlanta into one of the NFL's premier cities

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Shortly after buying the Atlanta Falcons in early 2002, Arthur Blank was in New York for a new NFL owners orientation when he had breakfast with Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots. “Everybody is going to tell you that the NFL is different – that you can't run [a team] the same way you ran Home Depot,” Kraft told Blank. “But I'm going to tell you that if you follow the same attributes and values and culture that you did at Home Depot in the NFL, you're going to be very successful.” For Blank, that was not a stretch.

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