Subject: Super Bowl

• Let's Get Blitzed!

  January 24, 1990

• Kid Pics for the week

  November 2, 1995

• Buffaloed Soldiers

  NFL dumps Arizona group representing black military units as Super Bowl colorguard

  January 11, 1996

• Pic Hits for the week

  January 25, 1996

• Somewhat social Super Bowl Sunday at Modified

  February 7, 2008

• Take Heart: The Cardinals Lost to the Best Team Football, but They Weren't Dominated

  Look out, dork: We may see you again in the playoffs. The difference in the Arizona Cardinals 37-29 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday was special teams. The Giants' played better. Take kick returner Dominik Hixon, who had run-backs of 83 and 68 yards to set up two Giants' scores. These more than offset kickoff returns by the Cardinals J.J. Arrington of 55 and 27 yards. For the Cardinals, it was a game of crazy kicks: two onside attempts. One nearly worked, and other didn't come clos

  November 24, 2008

• Eat More Eagle: Arizona Cardinals Travel to Philly for Thanksgiving Day Showdown

  Fallen Eagle: Despite Recent Benching, Donovan McNabb Gets the Start Thursday Against the Cardinals Oh, City of Brotherly Hate, are things jacked up in your neck of the woods. In case you haven't heard, do-everything Philadelphia Eagles' (5-5-1) signal-caller Donovan McNabb - a five-time Pro Bowl QB who once led Philly to four straight NFC championship games - got his behind benched Sunday during the second half of the Eagles 36-7 drubbing against the Baltimore Ravens. The Eagles were only d

  November 26, 2008

• Best of the NFC Worst: Cards Should Clinch Division Title Against Lowly St. Louis on Sunday

  Cards QB Kurt Warner will meet his old team in Glendale. You can't win in the NFC West. Even if you win. That's the moral of the story for the Arizona Cardinals, who've been crucified for years as the doormat of the weak-sister NFC Worst. Now  that they're on the verge of winning their first division title since 1975 -- a victory against the lowly St. Louis Rams on Sunday will clinch it -- they're sure to be pilloried for winning the title against, yes, an NFC West opponen

  December 5, 2008

• Defense Seals Deal: Arizona Cardinals Clinch NFC West in Blowout

  The defense was stellar in the Arizona Cadinals' division-clinching 34-10 win over the St. Louis Rams, forcing two fumbles and intercepting a pass in the end zone and returning it 100 yards for a score. But before we get too giddy and start ordering Super Bowl tickets, let's remember that the Rams aren't the worst team in the NFL (the winless Detroit Lions have that honor), but they do have a record of 2-10. Let's also remember that the Cardinals have beaten this l

  December 8, 2008

• Luck of the Draw: Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons in NFC First-Round Playoff on Saturday

  "Charmed" seems an odd descriptor for the 2008-09 Arizona Cardinals, who lost -- no, were crushed in -- four of their last six regular-season games. Yet here they sit, all warm and snuggly at 9-7, hosting a first-round playoff game at home in the Red Zone. Meanwhile, a couple of teams they lost to by a combined score of 61 points -- the New York Jets and New England Patriots -- sit idly at home. The Patriots finished 11-5, and are only the second team in NFL history to finish with that record

  January 2, 2009

• Busting Ghosts: Can the Arizona Cardinals Beat Vegas Odds Again Sunday and Make it to the Super Bowl?

  Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt is Arizona's ace in the hole. Color Terry Bradshaw red, for he has seen the light, brother. After ragging on the Cardinals all year, the shiny-domed former Super Bowl MVP announced his conversion on the FOX NFL Sunday postgame show following Arizona's shocking dismantling of the Carolina Panthers last weekend. "These guys [the Cardinals] have burned me too many times this year. I'll never pick against the Cardinals again. I'm saying this on camera," yelped

  January 16, 2009

• Lo and Behold! The Arizona Cardinals Are Going to the Super Bowl Against the Pittsburgh Steelers

  It was fourth and inches late in the fourth quarter, and it wasn't the play we would've called with our team down 25-24 in the NFC  Championship. But two running plays up the middle had yielded next to nothing. Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner takes the snap and hands off to Tim Hightower (pictured), who bolts toward the right side. Everybody wearing red in University of Phoenix Stadium is holding their breath. The dreadlocked Hightower's nearing the sideline. Will he

  January 18, 2009

• Hot Links: Cardinals Headed for Super Bowl; Dutch Man Wants $400,000 in Javelina Attack; Tucson Citizen to be Shut Down if No Buyers

  Super Bowl-bound: The Arizona Cardinals redeem themselves in a nerve-wracking championship game, sealing this year's season as the finest since the franchise moved to the state in '87. That's not our javelina: Tucson museum denies ownership of a javelina that attacked a Dutch dude -- he wants $400,000. You won't read stories like that in the Tucson Citizen much longer -- the newspaper looks to be heading the way of the brontosaurus. You're estimated wait time is... probably going to be too lo

  January 19, 2009

• Super Bowl XLIII Preview: Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (the Redbirds are Still Vegas Underdogs)

  Bid Bidwill, Ken Whisenhunt, and Rod Graves in January 2007 The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl, and the world didn't end. Despite their myriad critics, maybe that means they belong there. Dangerous corollary for a young team: Maybe they're beginning to think they belong there. Luckily for our historically star-crossed Redbirds, who've been thriving in the role of underdog, the oddsmakers aren't buying it. After Arizona beat the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 in the NFC Championship

  January 19, 2009

• Wide Receiver Anquan Boldin Throws Momentous Tantrum on Arizona Cardinals' Momentous Day

  Maybe Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin should take a lesson in sportsmanship from Leinart.

  January 19, 2009

• Arizona Cardinals Get Big Airport Send-Off by Fans Before Heading to Tampa

  An estimated 1,800 fans turned out at Sky Harbor airport this morning to give the Arizona Cardinals a rousing send-off on their way to Tampa Bay for the Super Bowl. The enthusiastic Cardinals supporters and their families, many holding homemade signs (or babies in cute, red jerseys) lined up near a Northwest Airlines jet on a Terminal 2 tarmac to cheer on their favorite players. A few dignitaries were also on-hand, including the state's new governor, Jan Brewe

  January 26, 2009

• Top 5 Ways to Get Through a Super Bowl Party if You Just Don't Give a Crap

  Not as excited as this dude for Sunday? No worries, I'm not, either.If you're anything like me (and I recognize that most Arizonans--nay, most Americans--are not), you don't get football.The overall appeal, the rules, the weird players-slapping-each-other-on-the-ass thing--it's all a bit baffling. But, there are a surprisingly large contingent of us who still attend Super Bowl parties every year for two overwhelming reasons: the food and the beer. If there were ever two more noble reasons to att

  January 27, 2009

• Hey Cardinals, Don't Pull a '92-'93 Suns or a '96 Sun Devils. Just Win It Now!

  The Phoenix Suns nearly pulled it off in 1993. The 1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football squad totally had it until the final seconds. And now the Arizona Cardinals are a game away from sports immortality. (And, arguably, the biggest comeback in modern-day athletics.) So some words of advice to the Cardinals as they head into the biggest game in franchise history: Just win the fricking thing now because this could be your only chance for a long, long while.

  January 30, 2009

• Looking for the Valley's Biggest Super Bowl Parties? We've Got the Lowdown

  These ladies definitely know how to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday in style. Do you? Less than 48 hours remain until Kurt Warner and the rest of the Arizona Cardinals become either champs or chumps. As Steve Jansen wrote earlier today over on our Valley Fever blog, Kurt and the boys in red have a golden opportunity to not only redeem the enitre Cardinals franchise for stinking up Phoenix for the past 20 years, they also can reward our town with it's second major sports championship. (The Rattlers

  January 30, 2009

• Morning After: Arizona Cardinals Come Oh-So-Close to Winning One of the Most Exciting Super Bowls Ever in Coach Ken Whisenhunt's Second Season

    The biggest game in Arizona Cardinals history -- the second-biggest in Arizona sports history -- is over, and what can we take away from it? Sure the Cardinals snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, but they certainly had the odds-makers in Vegas sweating. For the fourth game in a row. Though it's said that nobody remembers the loser in a Super Bowl, quarterback Kurt Warner and the Cardinals will be remembered for playing in one of the greatest game

  February 2, 2009

• Hot Links: Defeated Cardinals to Be Welcomed Home by Rally at Sky Harbor; Porn Interrupts Super Bowl Broadcast in Tucson ; McCain Criticizes Spending in Stimulus Bill

  They came, they saw -- they choked. Or maybe they were robbed of a Super Bowl victory by a bad call. But the Arizona Cardinals put up a helluva fight against the Steelers and they'll be coming home at 3:30 today to a cheering crowd at Sky Harbor. Daddy, what was that? Television hackers manage to air 10 seconds of pornographic images on the same channel as the Super Bowl in Tucson. McCain says Obama's economic stimulus plan contains too much spending. Authorities find the bodies of two&nbs

  February 2, 2009

• Sunday's Worst Super Bowl Ad

  Is this what you think of the American public, Pepsi? There were some truly awful ads on during yesterday's insanely competitive Super Bowl. The economy is changing, America is changing, and the past two Super Bowls have been some of the best games in Super Bowl history. I remember watching some Super Bowls that were atrocious, lopsided affairs that were over by halftime. It didn't matter for me, though -- I was much younger and enjoyed the commercials more than anything. Advertisements have bec

  February 2, 2009

• Arizona Cardinals Return Home

  Jonathan McNamara It would take more than a Super Bowl loss to prevent the Arizona Cardinals from receiving a hero's welcome at Sky Harbor Airport on the afternoon after their defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers. A few thousand dedicated fans with the luxury of leaving their respective jobs at around 3:30 p.m. gathered en masse on the tarmac to welcome home their team and life their spirits with chants like "one more year." Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Coach Ken Whisenhunt, Kurt War

  February 2, 2009

• Super Bowl Decided by Ref? How Did Kurt Warner's Pass Get Down Field if it Was Fumbled?

  For our own mental health, we've been trying to let go of the Super Bowl for two days now. We've been trying to remind ourselves that the NFL is sports entertainment, and that we correctly predicted what was going to happen: Cardinals fans would be massively outnumbered in Tampa, and the Steelers would have the "neutral site" championship called like a home game. But, as the ol' inbox continues to fill with trash talk from Steelers fans, we have to say this:THAT WAS A FUCKING FORWARD PASS. HOW

  February 3, 2009

• Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders Seeking New Recruits

  www.azcardinals.comIt's time to show 'em what you've got:The Arizona Cardinals are looking for a few good cheerleaders following the team's stellar season as Super Bowl contenders.If you've got the right moves, can squeeze your butt into one of those postage-stamp-size pair of shorts and you're hot enough to steal attention away from Larry Fitzgerald, you might even have a chance during April tryouts. According to the Cardinals Web site, clinics that prepare women for the stressful tryouts begin

  February 20, 2009

• If Kurt Warner and His Agent Persist in Asking for Max Dollars for a 38-Year-Old QB, Maybe the Cardinals Should Go With Matt Leinart

  Didn't we predict it would come to this? Yes we did, over and over. We said Kurt Warner would seek the highest salary possible following his improbable Super Bowl run, and that the Arizona Cardinals would resist. For two reasons: Because the Bidwills who own the franchise are known to be a tight-fisted clan. And because the Cardinals have a potential star NFL quarterback in the making. That would be Matt Leinart, he of Heisman Trophy and two National Championships at USC fame. Okay, ev

  February 25, 2009

• Now This on Kurt Warner: It's Unlikely He'll Be Re-Signed by the Arizona Cardinals Before the Free-Agency Deadline Tomorrow

  azcardinals.com Like we've been saying all along, Cardinals starting quarterback Kurt Warner may be playing elsewhere next season. A blogger on azcardinals.com., the team's official Web site, reports that Warner and the team are still about $4 million a year apart on a contract. Warner wants to be paid in the range of the top five quarterbacks in the league -- guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, who have Super Bowl victories for their current teams on their resumes

  February 26, 2009

• Dream Teams

  Indians, Dodgers spurn Grapefruit League for Arizona’s world-class party

  February 19, 2009

• Dream Team

  Indians, Dodgers spurn Grapefruit League for Arizona’s world-class party

  February 19, 2009

• Arizona Cardinals Fans, You'd Better Get Ferocious or Steeler Nation Will Eat You Alive

  January 29, 2009

• The Missing Links

  Party with kings or Cheetos-grubbing rednecks. It’s your choice.

  January 22, 2009

• You're Not High

  January 15, 2009

• National Junior College All American Game

  December 11, 2008

• Giant Dork

  In this case, “MVP” stands for “Most Vacuous Player”

  November 20, 2008

• Thy Bidwell Be Done

  Sucking up to the king of futility

  August 7, 2008

• Floyd "Money" Mayweather Presents: "Dancing With the Stars"

  January 31, 2008

• Sweet Success

  The Glen transforms itself into a delectable destination

  January 31, 2008

• Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII

  January 31, 2008

• Fantasy Football

  Games that not-quite-good-enough people play

  January 24, 2008

• Red Heat

  Super Bowl birds flock to draft-day bashes

  April 23, 2009

• Ladies Who Crunch

  The hard-hitting Knighthawks are bringing a new edge to women¹s football

  October 10, 2002

• BOB's a Bust

  Bank One Ballpark was touted as a powerful economic engine for downtown. Data show, however, that BOB has fueled sales mostly for BOB. The meager spillover doesn't bode well for the Arizona Cardinals' stadium aspirations.

  March 9, 2000

• Adolf Hitler an Arizona Cardinals Fan? Check it Out.

  We've gotten our fair share of hate mail over the years, especially after our Super Bowl cover story about weak-kneed Cardinals fans and their coal-mining hillbilly counterparts (Steeler Nation) from Western Pennsylvania, but we've never received anything as hilarious/disturbing as this video. Yes, those are the words from one of our blog posts, put in Adolf Hitler's mouth. Martin Cizmar's post about Kurt Warner's "fumble" is linked from YouTube. Eeek. It's funny, yes, but also deeply, deeply

  April 15, 2009

• The God Squad

  July 2, 2009

• The God Squad

  July 2, 2009

• Pack to the Future

  August 27, 2009

• Redbirds of Prey

  September 10, 2009

• Things Are Getting Back To Normal In Glendale; Cards Look Like Crap In Loss to San Francisco

  www.nfldotcom.com Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals put on a laughable performance in Glendale yesterday. These guys really almost won the Super Bowl?​ After nearly not selling out on opening day, after a lackluster training camp, after a quiet off-season, and after winning the NFC Championship, the Arizona Cardinals are finally back. We don't just mean that it's football season again, we mean that the Cardinals are back to playing, well, like the commiserable Cardinals of old,

  September 14, 2009

• Less than Jake

  October 29, 2009

• Home, Sweep Home

  November 12, 2009