“Card-Pitt” or Carpet are re-united for the Super Bowl
Well for those folks who do not know the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburg Steelers play in two weeks in the Super Bowl. The Cardinals have been perennial losers and the Steelers are the Steelers. The Bidwell and Rooney families have owned these two teams since the 1930’s and here is some trivia for everyone. In the 1944 season the Cardinals (then based in Chicago) and the Steelers ran a joint team called the “Card-Pitt”. Here is a wiki article on this obscure point of NFL lore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card-Pitt
Same wag noted that “Card-Pitt” was more like “Carpet” as the team laid down for an 0-10 record.  The Bidwell family have been among the poorest owner groups except for the family who runs the Chicago Blackhawks(yes they still play hockey in Chicago) and are the nomads of the NFL. From Chicago to St. Louis and now based in Pheonix.Â
Okay now to analysis of today’s two games. Tim Tebow is really needed in Baltimore. Ravens have a great defense, but they need a quarterback. The Steelers floundered around alot, but 3 interceptions by a stingy defense bought them an Super Bowl ticket.
How does one explain Kurt Warner?  He has had the lowest lows (Iowa football & Arena ball) plus the highest highs? Or how does one explain Donovan McNabb?  Can McNabb just not win the big games? Of course short of the Super Bowl McNabb has won lots of big games. The Eagles have been in more divisional championship games in the last 7 years then any team. Yet Today Warner won and McNabb faces another painful defeat.  I really can’t explain. The Eagles were stunning in the second half and yet a missed extra point and a missed two point conversion seemed to bedevil the team. Finally on the decisive drive for the Cards they got a 1st down on 4th down effort. Then it was over. More Eagle frustration. The better team lost. Â
That’s it for me.Â
Steelers 41 Cardinals 3
“Or how does one explain Donovan McNabb”
ITS THE RUSH LIMBAUGH JYNX
“The better team lost.”
You mean the Giants or the Panthers???
I live in AZ. Anyone who thinks the Cardinals are the best team in the NFC are complete morons. Even the people here dont believe that. They beat the Falcons at home with a rookie QB who chocked under presssure. Then Delhomme played the worst game of his career. Then the McNabb-Rush Limbugh jynx.
and…
This is the same team that went 9-7 in the WORST division in the history of the NFL.
41-3 Steelers
Eph,
You’re right about the Cards not being the best team .. but no one will complain because that is the beauty of the playoff system.
Now if only College Footbal would get this message ….
If a team gets hot it can run the table. The 1969 Mets come to mind
The Cardinals may not be the best team in the NFC, but they obvious were the best team in the NFC playoffs. And I guess I’m a moron because I believe Kurt Warner will win his second Super Bowl, with 2 different teams. I think it will be close but if it’s not, it is more likely Arizona with their offense will be the ones to blowout Pittsburgh.
The Arizona offense is Larry Fitzgerald and only Larry Fitzgerald. McNabb could have won the big game if the dfense didn’t get on the bus for the airport with 10 minutes left in the game.
The Arizona offense is Larry Fitzgerald and only Larry Fitzgerald. McNabb could have won the big game if the dfense didn’t get on the bus for the airport with 10 minutes left in the game.
I was a big Cardinals fan in the 1960’s and 1970’s when I lived in St, Louis.
Ironically the Rams won a super bowl for St. Louis after the Cards went Southwest.
I really admire Kurt Warner as he came from nowhere to be a Super Bowl & NFL MVP. This year has just firmed up his place in the Hall of Fame. I hope the Cards win.
Let me say that McNabb and the Eagles have won games over and over again. Yet like the Bills they have one Super Bowl shy.
#6:
The ‘69 Mets had one of the best pitching staffs I have ever seen.
One other bit of Cardinal related trivia:
Most people would thing that the “oldest rivalry” in the history of the NFL is The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. But it isn’t; it’s the Bears and the Cardinals. Bears-Packers isn’t even the 2nd oldest; that would be Cardinals-Packers.
In 1920, the first year of the APFA (it would change to the NFL in 1922), the Bears and the Cardinals played twice, on November 28 and December 5th (each team winning once).
The Packers didn’t join the NFL until 1921, playing the Cardinals on Nov 20 (a 3-3 tie), and then the Bears on the 27th (a 20-0 loss).
(The Packers as a team existed in 1919 and 1920, but weren’t a part of the APFA/NFL until 1921.)
I counted 4 awful calls for the Steelers. And who can forget the Seahawks robbery. Holmgren called the refs on it and the league never fined him.
So if the refs don’t cheat for the Steelers, AZ has a chance.
Oh come on… Give the Cardinals some credit where credit is due. They shut down the Falcons’ running game and they are the only team to BEAT the Panthers this season AT CAROLINA and their offense worked over a good Eagles’ defense. At crunch time they drove the length of the field burning seven minutes off the clock and SCORED! Adding a +2 conversion for a bit of security… and the win.
Actually ‘69 Mets were the best team in the NL- 100 victories. The Cardinals are more like the Florida Marlins in 2003- floundering around about 5 games over .500 with a month to go and played way over their heads after that. But you gotta love the NFL playoff system- they got it right to generate the most excitement and interest.