Superbowl Pick

8:26 am EST February 1st, 2009 | Sports | 3 Comments

Steelers by 17.

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3 Responses to “Superbowl Pick”

  1. Jaim says:
    February 1, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Yr given the Cards a lot of credit on this one O-dub.

  2. revenantive says:
    February 1, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Being a Saint Louis person, who grew up in the 70s and 80s with the Football Cardinals of lore…the Dierdorfs, the Werhlis, the Clyde Duncans and Steve Littles…some were great, most were pathetically awful…I have to admit that I am skeptical of the Cardinals’ chances this evening.

    That said, when the Rams got to town in 95 we had a Super Bowl championship just a few years later. Kurt Warner was the QB for those fairly awesome seasons of football.

    Kurt’s funny christian prostelization aside, the dude has been the absolute best QB I’ve ever seen. When he’s healthy and has an above average, good or even exceptional team around him, he can take them to an even higher level of play. I’ve seen him make throws into places that no other QB in the league can make or contemplate.

    STLtoday.com columnist Bernie Miklasz puts it best:

    “Moreover, Warner is a two-time NFL MVP. His regular-season career QB rating of 93.8 ranks No. 3 in NFL history. He has the fourth-highest passing yards per attempt average (8.04) in NFL history and is No. 2 in completion percentage. He has passed for 300 yards or more in 48 of his 101 starts, a preposterous percentage that is easily the highest in NFL history. And Warner’s average of 259.9 yards passing per game is No. 1 in NFL history.

    Warner is also one of the best postseason quarterbacks of all time. His postseason record is 8-2. He has the second-highest postseason QB rating in NFL history, 97.3. He was a Super Bowl MVP. He holds the record for most yards passing (414) in a Super Bowl. He threw a 73-yard TD pass to Isaac Bruce to win a Super Bowl. He delivered the Rams (1999) and Cardinals (2008) into the Super Bowl by throwing late, winning TD passes in the NFC championship game. And even in the Super Bowl the Rams lost, Warner rallied them from 14 points down in the fourth quarter to tie, only to have New England’s Adam Vinatieri win it on a last-play field goal.

    Besides, do the numbers even matter as much as Warner’s story? It’s my belief that his career is unprecedented. Warner entered the league as a no-name. He didn’t start an NFL game until age 28. He made a spectacular debut, having three epic seasons from 1999-2001, only to suffer deterioration of his play caused by hand injuries. And after two teams had given up on Warner, after he had to sit on Arizona’s bench for a while, Warner rallied at age 37 this season to have a second peak phase in his career.

    How many guys at the very top of their league fall off, then get back to the top again? And keep in mind that Warner did something that many people thought was nearly impossible: He won a Super Bowl ring for Georgia Frontiere, and he took Bill Bidwill to the Super Bowl. The Rams were 45-99 in the 1990s before Warner and the 1999 Rams won the Super Bowl. And the Cardinals haven’t won an NFL championship since 1947. It’s not like Warner led the Tom Landry-coached Dallas Cowboys or the Bill Belichick-coached New England Patriots to Super Bowls. No, Warner lifted two of the league’s bottom teams to the highest level of achievement.”

    So…in summary, I am rooting for the Cardinals (to quelch the STL hometown feelings..) and Kurt Warner, my favorite QB of the modern era until the atheistic version of Kurt arrives on the NFL scene.

    My dream end-of-the-stupid-bowl sequence goes like this:

    The star football player walks off the field in glory with the Lombardi trophy. And when the reporters and TV cameras speak to him in the locker room, he says…”I’d like to thank the Great Satan for this victory today…without whom none of this would be possible!” Could you imagine the repercussions in today’s christianized society?

    “So, Mr. Football Star, what are you going to do now that you have won the big game??”

    “Well, I’m going to Disneyland!”

    There’s nothing more American than the Super Bowl.

  3. GOPnot4me says:
    February 1, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    I’m not so sure. The Steelers should worry.

    According to the Weather Channel, it IS a cold day in hell.