Buckybird
Hoist the Lombardi Trophy
Awesome
I have a great story. It's the 1994 season, Buddy Ryan's 1st season as HC. We're 1-4 at the time and playing the heavily favored Redskins in Washington. I lived in MD then & my parents traveled from Syracuse, NY to see their very 1st NFL game live. My wife was with us also. My parents both had baseball Cardinal hats on because you couldn't find a football Cardinal hat anywhere in Syracuse. My Mom is trash talking with Skins fans before the game as they ridiculed her for predicting a Cardinal win. At that point in my life, the Cardinals were 1-15 in the roadies I'd seen them live. So understandably, I'm trying to keep my Mom realistic about our chances. She'd have none of that. They kept asking her to give them just 1 good reason why a crappy Cardinal team would beat a Skins team that was always in the SB hunt. My Mom's response was: "Because I am here". Understand that my Mom was the most upbeat, positive person that God EVER created. She beat stage 4 lung cancer, and her oncologist claimed she was his only patient to ever have accomplished that.
Needless to say, the Cardinals beat the Skins 19-16 in OT. Every Skins fan in our section that had argued with her shook her hand afterwards saying "You obviously knew something that we didn't". I wish my Mom was still alive, as we could use her this weekend in Baltimore. But if we somehow, someway, pulled off the impossible, I'll know her spirit was in that stadium.