Sunday, January 18, 2009
A Promise
If the Cardinals do indeed win the Super Bowl on 2/1/09 I will get a Cardinal tattooed on my body with the date around it! It will be my very first tattoo for the very first Super Bowl!
Has Hell Frozen Over?
11 years ago in section 33 at Sun Devil Stadium, you wouldn't find many season ticket holders for the Cardinals. You probably wouldn't find too many throughout the stadium. People didn't want to pay for season tickets and then have to walk 1/2 a mile to the stadium in 110 degree weather when the team would most likely lose anyway.
3 years ago in section 113 at the new University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale we have become surrounded by Arizona Cardinals fans who have endured the same pain and disappointment that I myself have faced over the past several years. We have come together and celebrated victories and comforted each other in losses. We have been disappointed even in our new stadium by defeat. Throughout the years even though we have been angry, disappointed, and embarrassed we have never given up hope!
On January 3rd 2009 I walked into University of Phoenix stadium for the first round of playoff games for this season. Arizona Cardinals vs Atlanta Falcons. I knew, that because this was a home game and there aren't that many Falcons fans here in Arizona that our boys were going to come out with this intensity and win the game. We had been the underdog, we were told that we don't even belong in the playoffs. I knew that was just fuel to our fire. We came out strong and we defeated our opponent. I just kept thinking this was the best day of the year for 2009.
On January 10th 2009 we played in North Carolina agaist a team that beat us in the regular season 27-23. We should've won that game back in October. The Panthers were undeafted at home. Everyone was sure we wouldn't win. I'll be honest, I was just glad we made it this far! I couldn't have asked for a better game. We shut down their run and we came up with a HUGE victory! As long as the Eagles were to beat the Giants then we were going to have another home game for NFC title!
On January 18th 2009 I got to walk into the University of Phoenix stadium for the last time this season, simply because the next game was the Super Bowl and it is in Florida! The walk to the stadium doors are a little different these days. Maybe because its a walk across a parking lot or because it's January and not 110 degrees outside or maybe it's because the football fans in this state have started to jump on our bandwagon and are finally supporting the Cardinals and we have finally filled out our lot with nothing but Cardinal RED!!!
Today we beat the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC Conference Title. We are going to the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay on February 1st 2009. It has been a long and bumpy journey. Not only do our players who we are truly grateful for deserve this, but the fans in section 113 who have been there longer than all the players deserve this most of all!
Go Cardinals!
PS
January 3rd was the FIRST best day of the year and as you can guess January 10th was the SECOND and January 18th was the THIRD. I am hopeful that on February 1st it will be FOURTH best day of 2009 when we get to FINALLY say that the Arizona Cardinals have won the SUPER BOWL!
3 years ago in section 113 at the new University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale we have become surrounded by Arizona Cardinals fans who have endured the same pain and disappointment that I myself have faced over the past several years. We have come together and celebrated victories and comforted each other in losses. We have been disappointed even in our new stadium by defeat. Throughout the years even though we have been angry, disappointed, and embarrassed we have never given up hope!
On January 3rd 2009 I walked into University of Phoenix stadium for the first round of playoff games for this season. Arizona Cardinals vs Atlanta Falcons. I knew, that because this was a home game and there aren't that many Falcons fans here in Arizona that our boys were going to come out with this intensity and win the game. We had been the underdog, we were told that we don't even belong in the playoffs. I knew that was just fuel to our fire. We came out strong and we defeated our opponent. I just kept thinking this was the best day of the year for 2009.
On January 10th 2009 we played in North Carolina agaist a team that beat us in the regular season 27-23. We should've won that game back in October. The Panthers were undeafted at home. Everyone was sure we wouldn't win. I'll be honest, I was just glad we made it this far! I couldn't have asked for a better game. We shut down their run and we came up with a HUGE victory! As long as the Eagles were to beat the Giants then we were going to have another home game for NFC title!
On January 18th 2009 I got to walk into the University of Phoenix stadium for the last time this season, simply because the next game was the Super Bowl and it is in Florida! The walk to the stadium doors are a little different these days. Maybe because its a walk across a parking lot or because it's January and not 110 degrees outside or maybe it's because the football fans in this state have started to jump on our bandwagon and are finally supporting the Cardinals and we have finally filled out our lot with nothing but Cardinal RED!!!
Today we beat the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC Conference Title. We are going to the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay on February 1st 2009. It has been a long and bumpy journey. Not only do our players who we are truly grateful for deserve this, but the fans in section 113 who have been there longer than all the players deserve this most of all!
Go Cardinals!
PS
January 3rd was the FIRST best day of the year and as you can guess January 10th was the SECOND and January 18th was the THIRD. I am hopeful that on February 1st it will be FOURTH best day of 2009 when we get to FINALLY say that the Arizona Cardinals have won the SUPER BOWL!
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