1. Regardless of record, there are no juggernaut uber-dominant teams in the NFC this year. Every team has flaws and can be beaten. The home teams still have an advantage but that's true every year.
2. I see the Cardinals' weakest link right now, for tomorrow only, as being Kurt Warner. Not the defense against the run. Not Boldin being hurt. The Kurt Warner who must conduct a pass-heavy offense outdoors, in cold and wet weather, perhaps windy, on the road.
3. No eventual outcome will surprise me, except winning. I'm always hopeful but skeptical this time. The cumulative confluence of conditions we are facing historically have resulted in bad performances by Warner and by the Cardinals, since long before Warner.
4. Got my haircut today by a woman hair dresser I like. No male barber has ever given me a haircut I like so I switched. Found out she and her husband had gone to the Cards game, courtesy of Jamaal Anderson, ex-Falcon RB. Her husband works for Jamaal, installing high-end home gyms for athletes and celebs. He just put one in for Philip Rivers.
Already football fans (Florida Gators and Michigan Wolverines) my hair dresser and whole family are now newly-hooked Cards fans. Never had a 40 year old woman I barely know spend half an hour, while cutting my hair, break down the good and bad she saw in a Cards game. Is this a sign from the football Gods?
5. North Carolina conjures up bad memories for me. Can't help it. From the chiggers and ticks picked up during practice amphibious landings on Onslow beach, Camp Lejeune, to two chopper forced landings, when being heloed to BT11 (bomb target 11), a swampy marsh island off Cherry Point, where I helped service and repair radars. Then an upside down car on September 28, 1975 at 1:10 AM on some back road I don't recall, on the way to the base at Cherry Point. Ugh. Have not been back there since and never will go again.
We need to fly into North Carolina, wreak havoc, then get out fast. I'll be the happiest man in the world.
6. Some things are beyond explanation. Despite my reservations about Warner my gut keeps suggesting we do have a chance. Maybe something unexpected from Hightower or Arrington or Leinart, if Julius Peppers (gawd forbid) gets a clean shot at Kurt early, courtesy of Brown or Gandy.
7. Go Cards.
2. I see the Cardinals' weakest link right now, for tomorrow only, as being Kurt Warner. Not the defense against the run. Not Boldin being hurt. The Kurt Warner who must conduct a pass-heavy offense outdoors, in cold and wet weather, perhaps windy, on the road.
3. No eventual outcome will surprise me, except winning. I'm always hopeful but skeptical this time. The cumulative confluence of conditions we are facing historically have resulted in bad performances by Warner and by the Cardinals, since long before Warner.
4. Got my haircut today by a woman hair dresser I like. No male barber has ever given me a haircut I like so I switched. Found out she and her husband had gone to the Cards game, courtesy of Jamaal Anderson, ex-Falcon RB. Her husband works for Jamaal, installing high-end home gyms for athletes and celebs. He just put one in for Philip Rivers.
Already football fans (Florida Gators and Michigan Wolverines) my hair dresser and whole family are now newly-hooked Cards fans. Never had a 40 year old woman I barely know spend half an hour, while cutting my hair, break down the good and bad she saw in a Cards game. Is this a sign from the football Gods?
5. North Carolina conjures up bad memories for me. Can't help it. From the chiggers and ticks picked up during practice amphibious landings on Onslow beach, Camp Lejeune, to two chopper forced landings, when being heloed to BT11 (bomb target 11), a swampy marsh island off Cherry Point, where I helped service and repair radars. Then an upside down car on September 28, 1975 at 1:10 AM on some back road I don't recall, on the way to the base at Cherry Point. Ugh. Have not been back there since and never will go again.
We need to fly into North Carolina, wreak havoc, then get out fast. I'll be the happiest man in the world.
6. Some things are beyond explanation. Despite my reservations about Warner my gut keeps suggesting we do have a chance. Maybe something unexpected from Hightower or Arrington or Leinart, if Julius Peppers (gawd forbid) gets a clean shot at Kurt early, courtesy of Brown or Gandy.
7. Go Cards.
