Cardinals’ Redemption
This isn’t about communications, PR or media, but I have to blog about it anyway. The Arizona Cardinals are awesome! The fact that they are one game away from playing in the Super Bowl is surreal and absolutely unbelievable.
I’m one of the many fans who’ve have been here in Phoenix since the Cardinals arrived in 1987, watching team after team play embarrassing football. Every fall we’d be promised that “things will be different this year,” but they never were. The owner of the team, Bill Bidwill, was not one of my favorite people.
We fans were overjoyed that the 2008 Cardinals would get to play their first home playoff game since the 40’s. But to think they could actually win it, then go to Carolina and win on the road (after being 0-5 on the East coast this year) is still too much to comprehend.
Then the football gods aligned so that Philadelphia beat the 2007 world champion Giants. Now the Cardinals get another home playoff game. If they win that, I will feel as if I’m on another planet.
I usually like the Fox pregame team — Jimmy, Howie, Terry, and Michael — but none of them gave the Cardinals a chance on Saturday. Neither did the rest of the national sports media, with some even claiming the Cardinals were the worst playoff team in history. After the game, only Terry Bradshaw seemed contrite, saying that he’d never pick against the Cardinals again.
Well, guess what, the rest of you so-called media “experts” can just kiss my you-know-what!
