Supreme Bowl

This is going to be a great Super Bowl. As an Arizona Cardinals fan, obviously I am excited after last weekend. The Cards took it to the Eagles and showed everybody they are very legitimate. Once again, Warner was back in the year 2000 and Larry Fitzgerald was as good as Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce combined. This post season has been the official coming out party for L-Fitz. I mean football people and fantasy geeks always knew how good he was, but he was still not a household name primarily because the Cards are never on national TV. But all that might have changed in that first half against the Eagles. He had three TDs including a beautiful flea-flicker that Fitz caught, stumbled and still took it to the house. Warner and Fitz killed the Eagles time and again. Eagles knew where the ball was going and they still couldn't stop it.

Eagles came back in the second half with a more aggressive blitz package and stopped the Cards offense a couple of times. Phily's offense was also better and they took the lead to shock the home crowd. But Warner and the Cards were ready on this day. That drive in the heart of the fourth quarter that took 8 minutes was just a thing of beauty. The Cards did everything right and scored on a screen play to seal the deal. Suddenly, it felt like we were seeing a entirely new franchise with new players and coaches. This was a new feeling to go through as a Cardinals fan and we should thank Warner for all this. The only downer in the whole thing was Anquan Boldin arguing on the sideline with his coach. That took away from the feel-good story a little bit, but it's par for the course and no big deal in the big picture.

The Steelers made it from the dark side as expected. The Ravens D kept the game close, but the Steelers were in control for sure. Finally, the Steelers intercepted the rookie and put the game away. It was an ugly game and was aesthetically nowhere near as good as the Cards-Eagles game earlier. Despite all the hype for defense and toughness, would anybody actually prefer the Steelers-Ravens game to the Cards-Eagles beauty? I don't think so. Give me Kurt Warner's flea-flicker over a 5 man gang tackle after a 3 yard run any day of the week and twice on Sundays. But this sets up the ultimate Super Bowl match-up - good passing offense against a great defense. We have 2 weeks to break it all down, but all I would say is do not count the Cardinals out.