The Author of the Infamous Atlanta Journal Constitution article

[Timm Rosenbach]

Feel free to give him a piece of your mind. The article which includes loudmouth's email address

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/printedition/2008/12/30/bradley.html?cxntlid=inform_artr

Do you like apples Mark Bradley?

 

[azmike74]

Good work! Thanks.

 

[green machine]

Writing fail.

 

[Jersey Girl]

They will not be overwhelmed Saturday in Glendale. They’ve beaten better teams in tougher places. They’ll beat the Cardinals and move on to the next task.

I don't have to email the guy. Yeah, he took a cheap shot (implying that the NFC West teams weren't "real" teams) or two. But, he's paid to do a job and his job is in Atlanta.

Besides, just reading that last sentence of his article (quoted above) is enough to make me happy.

 

[TJ]

Couldn't resist...I sent him a short e-mail, highlighted a couple of inflammatory quotes and asked him "what happened?"

 

[D-Dogg]

My email to the guy at [email protected]

Subject: Was it loud enough for you?

“If you have to play on an opponent’s field in January, you pray Arizona is the opponent.”

Famous last words? You will be happy to know, that particular quote was plastered on our JumboTron before kickoff. You will be unhappy to know that it added jet fuel to a raging fire already burning out of control. That’s your special contribution to your home team’s loss on Saturday.

In the last two seasons, we are 12-4 at home under Whisenhunt (oops, make that 13-4). It’s the best home field advantage in the NFC and the third best in the NFL. I forgive you for not understanding this, because you weren’t a fan like me who sat in the desert sun in Sun Devil Stadium, blistering and seeing opposing fans fill the joint, watching fights break out from the drunk and disorderly, often between fans of the same team, because booze and sun exposure do strange things to a fan, especially one whose team is getting killed on the regular.

But in UOP, things changed. Drastically. Those 30,000 diehards were joined by people scared to brave the college field and its metal bleachers. And we’ve taught them how to be fans. To scream on defense every down. To shut up and let the offense work.

No, you couldn’t have known that the Bird’s Nest is an ungodly unfriendly place for an opposing team to play.

But you know now. Oh, how you know. Your team knows even better.

Was it loud enough for you, Mr. Bradley? Because I think we might even have another gear. God help anyone who walks on that field if we find it.

 

[Rats]

My retort.... Response to smug Falcon article: Mr Bradley you must have trouble reading your notes. The Falcon coaches quote was "I am very confident that we will be executeD "by the Cardinals" and go out and get playED by that Arizona team.
Now I guess that the next task you speak of is for the guys to go home to there McMansions and watch the neighbors be Forclosed on and then watch American Idol in January. It sucks to be Atlanta, but i guess there are "tougher places".

 

[Bert]

Actually the joke is on us because deep down this "reporter" is psyched because the Falcon's season ending, means one thing to him:

DOG FIGHTING SEASON!

You see, it's his favorite thing to cover, the Falcons is just his day job.

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

My email to the guy at [email protected]

Awesome!

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Here was my terse email:

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Bang up job on the article Bradley; search for another line of work Nostadamus.

 

[Perfectionist]

What I liked when the article was written, were the comments below, and he said that he had a method of predicting games and that he was usally wrong. Well, he kept that string alive.

Most of the comments were intelligent replys, except for on jerk (Genius I think he called himself) that is the one I would like to email.

Now for us, on to the next task.

 

[English on tour]

dropped him a little email...

 

[SuperSpck]

Sent him one to.

 

[82CardsGrad]

My email to the guy at [email protected]

Subject: Was it loud enough for you?

“If you have to play on an opponent’s field in January, you pray Arizona is the opponent.”

Famous last words? You will be happy to know, that particular quote was plastered on our JumboTron before kickoff. You will be unhappy to know that it added jet fuel to a raging fire already burning out of control. That’s your special contribution to your home team’s loss on Saturday.

In the last two seasons, we are 12-4 at home under Whisenhunt (oops, make that 13-4). It’s the best home field advantage in the NFC and the third best in the NFL. I forgive you for not understanding this, because you weren’t a fan like me who sat in the desert sun in Sun Devil Stadium, blistering and seeing opposing fans fill the joint, watching fights break out from the drunk and disorderly, often between fans of the same team, because booze and sun exposure do strange things to a fan, especially one whose team is getting killed on the regular.

But in UOP, things changed. Drastically. Those 30,000 diehards were joined by people scared to brave the college field and its metal bleachers. And we’ve taught them how to be fans. To scream on defense every down. To shut up and let the offense work.

No, you couldn’t have known that the Bird’s Nest is an ungodly unfriendly place for an opposing team to play.

But you know now. Oh, how you know. Your team knows even better.

Was it loud enough for you, Mr. Bradley? Because I think we might even have another gear. God help anyone who walks on that field if we find it.

Good Lord that is PERFECT!!!!!!!

 

[Dr. Jones]

Does anyone have his story from this morning??? Wonder if he will apologize.

 

[Ryanwb]

I sent an e-mail to him comparing him to Jayson Blair

 

[D-Dogg]

I sent an e-mail to him comparing him to Jayson Blair

LOL!

 

[Sandan]

Here is my email to him'

We had your quote posted on the video board prior to the game "If you have to play on an opponent's field in January, you pray Arizona is the opponent"

Its so much sweeter when somebody writes an arrogant homer article like this and then the Falcons get their butt handed to them. But I do have one question ...

Still think it was a good idea to pray for that ? Sometimes you get what you need not what you want, you needed a lesson in humility.

Enjoy the roasted crow.

 

[Renz]

Apparently, the Cards used the guy for motivation also. LOVE IT!

“It’s hard not to see it and hear it when you’re one of four (playoff) games being played and everyone is taking a shot at you,” Whisenhunt said.

Whisenhunt noted that there were people who considered the Cardinals the worst playoff team ever, and it was a rallying point. One of the lightning rods came from a column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which said the Falcons were “blessed” by getting to travel to Arizona for the playoffs, ostensibly because it would be an easy win.

“There was a lot of talk in the paper from them about how it was a blessing for them to come out here, but it’s not sweet out here,” Wilson said.

http://www.azcardinals.com/news/detail.php?PRKey=2813

 

[TheHopToad]

Now if we can only keep Bickley from saying something stupid before it's our turn to play on the road next week.

 

[TJ]

Now if we can only keep Bickley from saying something stupid before it's our turn to play on the road next week.

Bickley will say something stupid, but whatever it is, it won't be locker room material for our opponent. It would be more like bedroom material.

 

[football karma]

To me, this quote was the most damning of them all.

"Smitty being Smitty, he made Arizona sound like the 1966 Packers in his weekly media briefing —- “very potent,” he called the Cardinals —- but in a private conversation afterward he made it clear that he likes his team’s chances in the month ahead."

Its one thing for a columnist to pop off -- its their job. But when I read the above it sounded like the coach basically agreed with what the columnist wrote.

 

[CtCardinals78]

"If you have to play on an opponent’s field in January, you pray Arizona is the opponent."

"Because their reward for finishing second in the NFC South is one of the sweetest consolation prizes in the history of consolation. They get to play Arizona..."

"They will not be overwhelmed Saturday in Glendale. They’ve beaten better teams in tougher places. They’ll beat the Cardinals and move on to the next task."

Whoops. Thanks for motivating the Cardinals. If the Cardinals have to play an opponent in January, us fans pray it is Atlanta as long as you keep giving the Cardinals bulletin board material!