I am not a big super bowl fan,but it was good to see the cardinals win, to get to play in the superbowl
I think it has been 60 + years..
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28723090/
Arizona rallies to 32-25 victory behind Fitzgerald's monster game
GLENDALE, Ariz. - That’s not a mirage rising out of the desert, folks. It’s the lowly Arizona Cardinals soaring to their first Super Bowl.
Yes, the Cardinals, founding members of the NFL, but historically among the most dysfunctional of franchises, finally have joined the big boys. Capitalizing on Larry Fitzgerald’s three first-half touchdown receptions, then coolly marching downfield to Kurt Warner’s 8-yard scoring pass to rookie Tim Hightower with 2:53 left, they beat the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 Sunday for the NFC championship.
“That drive where we scored a touchdown at the end of the game and took seven minutes was really the difference,” Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt said.
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Donovan McNabb was superb in leading Philadelphia’s second-half rally, but he misfired from midfield four times in the final moments.
Arizona (12-7) will face the AFC champion in two weeks in Tampa for the NFL title. Baltimore played at Pittsburgh later in the day for the AFC crown.
If the Cardinals, the first No. 4 seed to host a conference championship game, were supposed to be thunderstruck by their surroundings, they instead responded like playoff veterans.
Sure, they blew a 24-6 halftime lead. But then the 37-year-old Warner, a Super Bowl MVP from almost a decade ago with the St. Louis Rams, engineered a precise, 72-yard drive to win it with his fourth TD pass of the day.
He finished the comeback with the 8-yard pass to Hightower, then hit Ben Patrick for the 2-point conversion.
But the key was the unstoppable Fitzgerald, who had nine receptions for 152 yards, including two big catches on the decisive drive. The All-Pro set a single postseason record with 419 yards receiving, surpassing the great Jerry Rice. And Fitzgerald has one more game to go — in the Super Bowl.
Can you imagine?
They surely never looked this good before in the Phoenix area, or their previous homes in Chicago and St. Louis.
I think it has been 60 + years..
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28723090/
Arizona rallies to 32-25 victory behind Fitzgerald's monster game
GLENDALE, Ariz. - That’s not a mirage rising out of the desert, folks. It’s the lowly Arizona Cardinals soaring to their first Super Bowl.
Yes, the Cardinals, founding members of the NFL, but historically among the most dysfunctional of franchises, finally have joined the big boys. Capitalizing on Larry Fitzgerald’s three first-half touchdown receptions, then coolly marching downfield to Kurt Warner’s 8-yard scoring pass to rookie Tim Hightower with 2:53 left, they beat the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 Sunday for the NFC championship.
“That drive where we scored a touchdown at the end of the game and took seven minutes was really the difference,” Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt said.
Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here
Donovan McNabb was superb in leading Philadelphia’s second-half rally, but he misfired from midfield four times in the final moments.
Arizona (12-7) will face the AFC champion in two weeks in Tampa for the NFL title. Baltimore played at Pittsburgh later in the day for the AFC crown.
If the Cardinals, the first No. 4 seed to host a conference championship game, were supposed to be thunderstruck by their surroundings, they instead responded like playoff veterans.
Sure, they blew a 24-6 halftime lead. But then the 37-year-old Warner, a Super Bowl MVP from almost a decade ago with the St. Louis Rams, engineered a precise, 72-yard drive to win it with his fourth TD pass of the day.
He finished the comeback with the 8-yard pass to Hightower, then hit Ben Patrick for the 2-point conversion.
But the key was the unstoppable Fitzgerald, who had nine receptions for 152 yards, including two big catches on the decisive drive. The All-Pro set a single postseason record with 419 yards receiving, surpassing the great Jerry Rice. And Fitzgerald has one more game to go — in the Super Bowl.
Can you imagine?
They surely never looked this good before in the Phoenix area, or their previous homes in Chicago and St. Louis.
