Decades of agony

[D-Dogg]

The game that was more painful than the Super Bowl loss by far. More painful than any other.

Monday Night Meltdown.

Monday Night Meltdown was painful.

Super Bowl was worse. I couldn't even enjoy these amazing wings we had afterwards to drown our sorrows. It was the most deflating loss I've ever been to, and when it was over, it made the Monday Night Meltdown look like a preseason game.

I was about to freaking revel in joy with Ouchie and Cheese, for God's sake...and it crumbled to the ground. Wonderful experience of a lifetime, absolutely CRUSHING loss.

 

[Mulli]

I was bummed after the Super Bowl, but the Bear game felt worse for some reason. The joy of Fitz taking the lead in the 4th was good enough for some reason.

But I feel for you guys who were there, that would have been horrible.

 

[D-Dogg]

I was bummed after the Super Bowl, but the Bear game felt worse for some reason. The joy of Fitz taking the lead in the 4th was good enough for some reason.

But I feel for you guys who were there, that would have been horrible.

Just talking about it and remembering it right now has ruined my day. Now I'm going to go silentcry on my vanpool home.

We lost that game TWICE. Once on the freaking 100 yard return. Then on the miracle catch after several times on that drive having Ben almost sacked.

My memories are tainted!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!

 

[Mulli]

Just talking about it and remembering it right now has ruined my day. Now I'm going to go silentcry on my vanpool home.

We lost that game TWICE. Once on the freaking 100 yard return. Then on the miracle catch after several times on that drive having Ben almost sacked.

My memories are tainted!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!

Hopefully Maximus can engineer some more memories for you.


PS: I was behind a few minutes when wathing this game. When the Cards had the ball on the 5 or whatever, my buddy got a text from his girlfriend that said "Touchdown!"
Then it went back the other way.
I will never let his girlfriend live that one down. :dcr:

 

[Cheesebeef]

Just talking about it and remembering it right now has ruined my day. Now I'm going to go silentcry on my vanpool home.

We lost that game TWICE. Once on the freaking 100 yard return. Then on the miracle catch after several times on that drive having Ben almost sacked.

My memories are tainted!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!

1st and 20 to start the drive and both Smith and DD whiffed on nailing Ben back at the 3 yard-line which would have made it 2nd and 30. UGH.

Winning the Super Bowl would have been the most glorious sports moment of all time... and possibly the greatest moment in my life up till this point. That was the year that I had suffered a horrific back injury, had two grueling back surgeries, my digestive system went caput on me and I was afraid my life as I knew it was over. That Super Bowl run coincided with me finally starting to turn the corner physically and even though I was in no shape to travel yet, the adrenaline (and a TON OF PAINKILLERS) carried me throughout an 8 hour travel day to Tampa, a full night of drinking till 6 in the morning, another full day of activity where my father and brothers had to push me around in a wheel-chair and all this was just Friday and Saturday!

Come Sunday, for the first time in 8 months, with all that wear and tear on me and two nights of getting smashed, i JUMPED out of bed, threw on my Dansby jersey and walked out of the guest room to see my brothers and father all suited up in their jersey's ready to go to the SUPER BOWL. It was an electrifying moment and from the moment on, there was no pain, with or without pain-killers. Showing up to the tailgate and seeing my best friend since birth and his father walk up in their jerseys just put it even more over the top. We ate, drank, met fellow board members and went to the game and with 2:34 left, we all believed we were going to win the Super Bowl.

Being there with my Dad, Ouchie and Brother-who-shall-not-post, with my best friend and his father two sections over, ready to eat CARDINALS CAKE (a playoff ritual with us since 1998) would have just been beyond amazing after the 8 months of torture I had gone through. Instead, it was just one more kick in the balls and the second it landed, I pretty much crumbled like a ton of bricks, all adrenaline wiped away.

Yeah... the Bears game doesn't even comes CLOSE to that. I mean, come on... we were still the Cardinals back then. Deep down in that place you don't like to admit exists, EVERYONE KNEW we were going to lose that game. Seeing it happen and then witnessing DG's legendary presser after was high comedy IMO.

 

[Capital Card]

Wow, a Craig Kupp sighting...

There were two late losses at the Giants that were brutal. One on a Matt Bahr FG, and one with Brad Daluiso kicking a 54 yarder after they opened up the tunnel for each wind-aided benefits (I am convinced!)...ugh...

Ok, seriously....who the F is Craig Kupp? I have no memory of him at all, and I had Season Tickets in 91.

I think a few of us should volunteer to donate our brains to science along with Sean Morey. We really don't know what kind of damage has been done.

Go Cards!!!

 

[BW52]

The Thanksgiving beating the Dolphins gave the Cards 55-14.That was pitiful.

 

[Osbern61]

The Thanksgiving beating the Dolphins gave the Cards 55-14.That was pitiful.

That one sent the team back into the dark ages. I don't think we won another game that year and finished the year with a 17-7 loss to Tampa Bay, who luckily had gotten their franchise first win the week before.

 

[Duckjake]

Well we've had a fairly constant progression this decade. The Cards have gone from being flat out horrendous 2000-2003, back to being your father's Cards and finding amazing ways to lose football games they should have won, 2004-2006, to winning games the way they used to lose them 2007-2010.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

17-7 loss to Tampa in 2007. Cards did almost nothing to justify me siting in the Tampa Stadium with a Leinart jersey on, the only Cardinal fan around besides Cardinal Bob.

MULLI I was at that game too. I even remember kind of looking for you, then realized I had no idea what a Mulli looked like lol

That game was terrible. I remember getting up in the 2nd quarter from my seat and drinking on the pirate ship for the reat of that game. That was the least fun game I can remember watching, not because we got blew out but because you just KNEW we had no hope of moving the ball.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

I was bummed after the Super Bowl, but the Bear game felt worse for some reason. The joy of Fitz taking the lead in the 4th was good enough for some reason.

But I feel for you guys who were there, that would have been horrible.

You know whats crazy? I actually feel the same way too not necessairly about the Bears game being worse, but the FItz part making it okay.

In retrospect, after realizing what was at stake and how difficult it is to get back to the Super Bowl, the entire thing has started to eat at my soul a bit but damn if that wasn't the best sports moment of my life when Fitz scored.

They talk about uncontrollable unadulterated pure happiness and joy and that feeling just warmed over me right at that point.

I think its because all the trash talking I had to endure the prior couple weeks (being here in FLA, nationally it wasn't supposed to even be close) and that Fitz TD I could hear the collective Super Bowl audience thinking "Damn the Cardinals are legit" and also feeling like for once things were going to break our way.

Of course it didn't happen, but the joy I experienced in that game was 10X as powerful as the agony. The pain has actually been harder after the fact.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

A more recent game that bothered me was the Niners game a few years back where Rackers missed a chip shot as time expired and Warner got sacked in the endzone for the game winning safety in OT.

This was the time when I wanted Leinart to play over Warner and just watched that play unfold (we were in the end zone seats right in front of it) and it was like slow motion and I was thinking "Get rid of it, Get rid of it"

And then I almost got in a fight with some mouthy hispanic 49er fan after the game. Yuk. Bad experience all the way around.

 

[schutd]

You know whats crazy? I actually feel the same way too not necessairly about the Bears game being worse, but the FItz part making it okay.

In retrospect, after realizing what was at stake and how difficult it is to get back to the Super Bowl, the entire thing has started to eat at my soul a bit but damn if that wasn't the best sports moment of my life when Fitz scored.

They talk about uncontrollable unadulterated pure happiness and joy and that feeling just warmed over me right at that point.

I think its because all the trash talking I had to endure the prior couple weeks (being here in FLA, nationally it wasn't supposed to even be close) and that Fitz TD I could hear the collective Super Bowl audience thinking "Damn the Cardinals are legit" and also feeling like for once things were going to break our way.

Of course it didn't happen, but the joy I experienced in that game was 10X as powerful as the agony. The pain has actually been harder after the fact.

We were watching at my restaurant in the west village. I was the only Card fan there, surrounded by about 10 people who didnt give a **** one way or the other, just wanted a good game. Fitz makes that catch, I jumped up from my bar stool, and grabbed the stool, raised it above my head ran around in circles and ran towards the front window. The GM stopped me. UNADULTERATED.

Then. poof.

 

[Arizona's Finest]

We were watching at my restaurant in the west village. I was the only Card fan there, surrounded by about 10 people who didnt give a **** one way or the other, just wanted a good game. Fitz makes that catch, I jumped up from my bar stool, and grabbed the stool, raised it above my head ran around in circles and ran towards the front window. The GM stopped me. UNADULTERATED.

Then. poof.

I think its the difference between Cards fans living in Az and outside of the state. I think over the past 5 years there has been more acceptance and cheering for the Cards when living in the state. They have become a source of regional pride. And for the most part the natives expect to win, or at least skewed with the information and coverage you get in state.

Nationally we still have a long way to go. Thats why on that kind of stage, it was a bit of validation even though we ended losing.