Atlanta ? There’s more to the Atlanta Falcons than Michael Vick.

Sure, the Falcons’ one-of-a-kind quarterback put on quite a show in the NFC playoffs, throwing two touchdown passes and running for 119 yards. But his teammates managed to escape Vick’s considerable shadow, putting Atlanta within one win of the Super Bowl.

Warrick Dunn ran for a 62-yard touchdown, Allen Rossum set an NFL playoff record for punt returns and Atlanta routed St. Louis, 47-17, Saturday.

The Falcons advanced to the NFC title game for only the second time in the franchise’s 39-year history. They will either play host to Minnesota or travel to Philadelphia next weekend.

“You saw a team that plays together,” rookie coach Jim Mora said.

“You saw a team that’s pretty complete.”

The only other time Atlanta made it this far was the 1998 season. The “Dirty Birds” got all the way to the Super Bowl, but were blown out by Denver in John Elway’s final game.

Now, a team known mostly for its inept play is on the verge of making it to Jacksonville, Fla., with a first-year coach. And Mora finally gave his family a playoff victory.

His dad, Jim Mora, took New Orleans and Indianapolis to the playoffs six times, but went one-and-out each time. He’s the only 100-win coach in NFL history without one postseason victory on his resume.

Well, his son has a 1-0 record in the playoffs — and his dad, who was at the Georgia Dome, must have been pretty proud.

St. Louis won its last two regular-season games just to make the playoffs with an 8-8 mark, then knocked off NFC West champion Seattle last weekend. But the Rams ran out of gas against the Falcons, who were off last week.

It didn’t take long for those fresh legs to pay off, especially when matched against the Rams’ woeful defense and special teams.

“I’ve been a part of a lot of losses,” defensive end Bryce Fisher said. “But I don’t think I’ve been part of a loss like this. We played like we had handcuffs on.”

On Atlanta’s third play, Vick broke a 47-yard run, which set up an 18-yard touchdown pass to Alge Crumpler just three minutes into the game.

The tone was set for the first half: It resembled a track meet more than a football game. The Falcons led 28-17, the teams combining on the second-highest scoring half for a divisional-round game in league history.

Rossum did more running than anyone. He returned a punt 68 yards for a touchdown with less than a minute to go in the first half.

He wasn’t done, setting an NFL playoff record with 152 yards on three punt returns — a staggering 50.7-yard average.

“I truly left it all out on the field,” Rossum said. “I’ll have no trouble going to sleep tonight.”

He had returns of 39 and 45 yards in the third quarter, setting up Vick’s 6-yard touchdown pass to Peerless Price and Jay Feely’s 38-yard field goal to give the Falcons a comfortable 38-17 lead.

Dunn rushed for 142 yards on just 17 carries, including the 62-yard touchdown that quickly eclipsed Vick’s scamper for the longest run in Falcons’ playoff history. By the time he was done, Dunn had eclipsed Jamal Anderson’s franchise record of 113 yards in a playoff game.

The Falcons finished with 327 yards rushing.