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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fido on January 18, 2009, 11:07:19 PM
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Really?
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yes.
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Pitt -7 is the opening line
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Astonishing.
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Yeah, the NFL playoffs haven't made any sense to me at all. Just the success of the Steelers.
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Recap of today's AFC game:
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Kurt Warner = slobs win. Get on board, you ghouls.
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Kurt Warner = slobs win. Get on board, you ghouls.
I was at least relieved to see his wife looking less like Cloris Leachman these days.
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Kurt Warner = slobs win. Get on board, you ghouls.
What kind of slob has Jesus on his side?
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Kurt Warner = slobs win. Get on board, you ghouls.
What kind of slob has Jesus on his side?
1) you may have a point, but
2) is that all you ever got out of the kurt warner story? for shame.
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The Cardinals were the only team that was worth watching this year so I'm pretty excited they're in the Super Bowl.
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Years of die hard Arizoninian football tradition has finally paid off.
What was the nickname for Cardinals fans again?
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cancer mom has been in the hospital for the past week so yesterday, since she was stuck in bed, everybody was in her room (nurses, etc.) watching the game. it was very bizarre and overwhelming but cardinals fever is nuts right now in phoenix.
the noise in the room was deafening when they won. meanwhile, i couldnt have been more bored.
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I heard that Phoenix plans to celebrate the end of this twenty year drought with their finest cultural tradition: by sprawling an additional twenty miles in every direction in 2009.
(I tease!!) ;)
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The Cardinals were the only team that was worth watching this year so I'm pretty excited they're in the Super Bowl.
Whut? What are you doing --killing time with the NFL until Arena Football starts up again?
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I heard that Phoenix plans to celebrate the end of this twenty year drought with their finest cultural tradition: by sprawling an additional twenty miles in every direction in 2009.
(I tease!!) ;)
HA!
oh, angstrom, it couldnt be more true.
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The Cardinals were the only team that was worth watching this year so I'm pretty excited they're in the Super Bowl.
Whut? What are you doing --killing time with the NFL until Arena Football starts up again?
I thought the No Fun League truly lived up to it's nickname this year. 95 percent of the teams utilized a boring, run it up the middle offense. The Cards and Colts were the only teams that could really dominate a defense. I don't mind defensive teams but there really weren't great defenses this year, just good ones that could handle mediocre offenses.
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Somehow, the Cardinals don't strike me as an opportunity to root for the slobs. I just don't get it, I'm still stuck on how in the world they got to this place. The playoffs have been completely weird this year.
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Somehow, the Cardinals don't strike me as an opportunity to root for the slobs. I just don't get it, I'm still stuck on how in the world they got to this place. The playoffs have been completely weird this year.
From the first thing that came up on google:
From the Edmonton Sun:
"Kurt Warner's story isn't new but it never gets old, an inspiration, really, to anyone who is ready to give up on himself. The Coles Notes [whuut?] version is that Warner graduated from that noted football factory, the University of Northern Iowa, in 1994. The football world yawned, but the Packers invited him for a training camp look.
That's all it was, a look, and Warner moved back home to Cedar Rapids and took a job in the local supermarket, stocking shelves for $5.50 an hour. He eventually landed a quarterbacking job with the Arena Football League Iowa Barnstormers. After three years there, he caught on with the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europe, beating out Jake Delhomme for the starting job.
Warner parlayed that into a backup role with the St. Louis Cardinals [it was the Rams] in 1998 but when starter Trent Green was injured during the 1999 pre-season, Warner became a star faster than you can say Wally Pipp. At 28, during that 1999 season as the pitch man for "The Greatest Show on Turf," Warner passed for an astonishing 43 touchdowns and the first of three consecutive 500-point seasons. He capped it off with a victory over the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl and, of course, was named Super Bowl MVP.
After three superior seasons, the wheels came off the St. Louis track team [whuuuuuuuuut?] and he was eventually dismissed by the Rams after the 2003 season. After a year with the Giants, Warner appeared set to play out the string [whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?] as a backup when he signed on with Arizona in 2005. When Josh McCown stumbled, Warner once again was at the controls, only to lose the job the next year to rookie Matt Leinart.
In 2007, Leinart began the year at No. 1 but Warner was quickly summoned to right the ship after five games, starting the final 11 games. This past off- season, Warner won the starting job again against Leinart and hasn't looked back, passing for 30 TDs and 4,583 yards.
Already with more playoff wins (two) than any quarterback in 60 years for Arizona, Warner will try to make it three in a row against a tough Philly defence today.
If Warner is able to get back to the Super Bowl for the third time, and perhaps win his second, it will be hard to keep him out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame when his time comes. [I wouldn't take this writer's word on this point, but it's a great story.]"
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Kurt Warner gets my eternal thanks for killing the Matt Leinart era.
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best of luck to them - i hope they stomp the living crap out of pittsburgh. watching them beat 'nem eagles was brutal though...
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Yeah, having the Eagles manage to comeback from that half time deficit only to let them casually stroll down the field for the last touchdown was heart-crushing. Looks like I'll be rooting for the commercials during the Super Bowl.
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Somehow, the Cardinals don't strike me as an opportunity to root for the slobs. I just don't get it, I'm still stuck on how in the world they got to this place. The playoffs have been completely weird this year.
From the first thing that came up on google:
From the Edmonton Sun:
"Kurt Warner's story isn't new but it never gets old, an inspiration, really, to anyone who is ready to give up on himself. The Coles Notes [whuut?] version is that Warner graduated from that noted football factory, the University of Northern Iowa, in 1994. The football world yawned, but the Packers invited him for a training camp look.
That's all it was, a look, and Warner moved back home to Cedar Rapids and took a job in the local supermarket, stocking shelves for $5.50 an hour. He eventually landed a quarterbacking job with the Arena Football League Iowa Barnstormers. After three years there, he caught on with the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europe, beating out Jake Delhomme for the starting job.
Warner parlayed that into a backup role with the St. Louis Cardinals [it was the Rams] in 1998 but when starter Trent Green was injured during the 1999 pre-season, Warner became a star faster than you can say Wally Pipp. At 28, during that 1999 season as the pitch man for "The Greatest Show on Turf," Warner passed for an astonishing 43 touchdowns and the first of three consecutive 500-point seasons. He capped it off with a victory over the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl and, of course, was named Super Bowl MVP.
After three superior seasons, the wheels came off the St. Louis track team [whuuuuuuuuut?] and he was eventually dismissed by the Rams after the 2003 season. After a year with the Giants, Warner appeared set to play out the string [whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?] as a backup when he signed on with Arizona in 2005. When Josh McCown stumbled, Warner once again was at the controls, only to lose the job the next year to rookie Matt Leinart.
In 2007, Leinart began the year at No. 1 but Warner was quickly summoned to right the ship after five games, starting the final 11 games. This past off- season, Warner won the starting job again against Leinart and hasn't looked back, passing for 30 TDs and 4,583 yards.
Already with more playoff wins (two) than any quarterback in 60 years for Arizona, Warner will try to make it three in a row against a tough Philly defence today.
If Warner is able to get back to the Super Bowl for the third time, and perhaps win his second, it will be hard to keep him out of the Pro Football Hall of Fame when his time comes. [I wouldn't take this writer's word on this point, but it's a great story.]"
I think I can get into this game, but only for sort of sentimental reasons -- I'm from Cedar Rapids, and I've lived in Pittsburgh. I can appreciate the Kurt Warner story. But whenever I watched the Cardinals play this year, they stunk. I'm still pretty nonplussed by this year's playoffs.
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The Kurt Warner rags to riches movie of the week played itself out a decade ago, when he was at the helm of a very arrogant and unsympathetic St. Louis offense. Good for the Cardinals, sure, but I can't say I'm particularly moved by the Kurt Warner story.
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I think he was married to a Susan Powter lookalike.
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Yeah, having the Eagles manage to comeback from that half time deficit only to let them casually stroll down the field for the last touchdown was heart-crushing. Looks like I'll be rooting for the commercials during the Super Bowl.
just do what i did last year: bet the under and root for the defense.
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Prank-obsessed slobs go too far:
McNabb’s lawn burned with Cardinals cheers
Jan 20, 8:00 pm EST
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP)—Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb recently had to play defense at his offseason home in Chandler.
Two Arizona Cardinals fans hung their team’s flag in a tree and burned “Go Cards,” “Go Kurt,” and “I heart AZ” in McNabb’s yard with diesel fuel, Chandler police Sgt. Joe Favazzo said Tuesday.
Favazzo said the fans hung the flag Thursday, and McNabb laughed it off and even left it hanging.
Then the fans returned Saturday and left a cardboard box in the driveway with “Go Cards” written on one side and “Beat Philly” on the other. McNabb laughed that off, too, when he discovered it at about midnight, Favazzo said.
But McNabb stopped laughing when he went outside Saturday morning, smelled diesel fuel and realized someone had burned Cardinals cheers into his lawn, causing about $2,000 in damage.
Favazzo said officers found an address label on the box that had been left, and it led to Chandler resident Rex Perkins, 37, who later admitted to the pranks.
His co-worker, Ryan Hanlon, 28, also admitted to the pranks.
Perkins and Hanlon were fingerprinted, photographed and cited for misdemeanor criminal damage.
“When they decided to get diesel fuel out and start damaging the yard, they crossed the line,” Favazzo said.
The Cardinals beat the Eagles on Sunday in the NFC championship game to advance to the Feb. 1 Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla.