Your Favorite Game/Moment of 2008/09?

[Angel]

Being there, in that stadium, to beat the Eagles will stay with me forever. I don't think any of us wanted to leave that night.

Raining confetti -- and seeing the faces of all those wonderful players who had EARNED a trip to the Super Bowl. And Michael Bidwill, and the coaches.

While the fans who had assured me that an all Pennsylvania Super Bowl was destiny -- evaporated in a puff of smoke.

That moment can still bring a tear to my eye.

After the week of crap I took. My Dad’s family is from PA and they have a lot of ?fun? fighting with each other about the Steeler\Eagles---but they had no problem giving it to me about the “All PA Superbowl”, seriously I stopped answering my phone.

Standing there watching it unfold with amazement, I asked the friend that sits two rows down "That’s it then?", and began to cry it is/was so surreal. Step back non-believers....The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl.

Damn, how do fans that have become spoiled by their teams numerous trips keep it in? I can’t wait to find out

 

[PoolBoy]

1. Fitz's Touchdown run in the SB. The joy I felt really can't be described.

true. that feeling for that 10 seconds during that play pretty much describes the journey as Cardinal fans the last year. Faced with yet another potential disappointment, and then just jubilation. I can't even remember what I was yelling during that, but I must have caused a scene at the girl I went to prom withs house.

 

[CaptTurbo]

Final drive in the NFC Championship game. Top moment of all time imo.

 

[Capital Card]

Being there, in that stadium, to beat the Eagles will stay with me forever. I don't think any of us wanted to leave that night.

Raining confetti -- and seeing the faces of all those wonderful players who had EARNED a trip to the Super Bowl. And Michael Bidwill, and the coaches.

I'll remember this moment to my dying day.

 

[FArting]

My favorite moment was Fitz's Touchdown run in the SB giving us the lead.

 

[RavensSuck1989]

I didn't really have a favorite moment this season, but if I had to choose one it would be when Stephen Tulloch stuffed Dominic Rhodes on a 4th & inches attempt on national TV. I was there (as always ).

The best moment I have experienced was witnessing the Music City Miracle. Hard to top that. Attending Super Bowl XXXIV is a close second. I was in the endzone where Kevin Dyson came up one yard short.

 

[TigToad]

this season had some amazing emotional highs.

1. Fitz's catch to put us up in the Superbowl. I was devestated shortly afterwords, but the feeling in that moment as I am jumping up and down in my living room screaming and weak legged. Amazing.

2. Grabbing confetti as it floated down to us in the stands after we won the NFC championship game. The game and the plays blur, but watching them wheel out the stage and Bill Bidwill hoisting the Hallas trophy. Watching the players dig into NFC champ gear and put it on. Great feeling.

3. The Cowboys blocked punt. The fact our season tickets are in a heavily scalped section on the visiting side lines, only made the moment sweeter. IT was almost as if that moment washed away the MNF game with the Bears. A moment of pure sweetness to erase the meltdown in a similar late game collapse.

4. Giving high fives to Whiz, Okeafor, Berry and a couple others as they ran laps around the stadium after we clinched the division.

5. Getting to tell Berry in person after one of the Big Red Rage's that I appreciated him signing here when other top free agents wouldn't, that I appreciated him staying here when we needed him, and that I proudly wore his jersey to the games on Sunday. (before the play offs, the Big Red Rage was not the over packed event it became during the play off run).

Thanks for the season boys.

 

[jmt]

For me the best game was beating the Panthers on the road. That's when I really believed we would go to the Super Bowl. Short lived as it was, Fitz TD to take the lead for the first time in Super Bowl was the finest moment. What a great season!

 

[dogpoo32]

Blocked punt against the pukes made me the most excited. So many though.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Larry Fitzgerald's 3 TDs in one half against the vaunted Philly secondary.

 

[Catfish]

Morey's block of the Cowboy's punt in OT which went into the end zone for a score to win the game !!!

 

[Chris_Sanders]

I just watched the NFC Championship game again. It is at the confetti part.

I am legitimately misty eyed just remembering that moment. Hope no one at work notices

 

[Arizona's Finest]

I think in a year where a team like ours goes to the playoffs it doesn't do much justice to list a regular season game as the high point. Before this season I would jokingly tell people the best day of my life was the day when the Cards beat the Cowboys in the playoffs. I jumped into the pool fully clothed and was absolutely elated. That moment stayed with me for ten long years. It wasn't the best thing that ever happened to me but it was nice payoff after folowing the team since 1992.

And then this season happened.

The "proudest" I felt was attending the Falcons game. Getting to go to my teams first playoff game in 50 years and to see the crowd going crazy with those towels was such a proud moment for me. When Spach caught that first down it was the biggest relief.

The most "surprised" all season was the playoff Carolina game. Even after I spent a week telling how many people I loved the match up I had a sick feeling in my stomach. I knew we NEVER showed up on the road. Even under Wiz we were competitive but I didn't think we could win a game of this magnitude on the road. Or I did but it wasn't any common sense or logic that was driving that. It was fandom.

And then we took them to the woodshed. I looked around about half way through the first half in disbelief. I couldn't belive we were dismantaling the Panthers.

And then the Superbowl. It says something both about my obsession as a fan and the putrid past we have all endured that one of the highlights of my life was that Cowboy game. One playoff win made me delirious and gave me ten years of hope.

Now keep in mind I have no kids and I get that people will read this and say I have no perspective. But like many of you I live and die by this team week in and week out. When they lose on Sunday that week everything is a little more difficult and food doesn't taste as good. You all know we have had many more weeks like that then not.

But from the hand of god I can tell you unequivically that when Larry scored that final TD - that was the most unadulterated joyous purest moment of happiness in my life. I stayed home to watch the game as I didnt want to go to a party and have my attention taken away from the game. But my neighbors had a BIG party and I went and had a beer or two before the game started and met many professionals here in Florida.

When Fitz scored I screamed "YEEEEEEEEESSSS, YESSSSSS, YEEEEESSSSS!" over and over and over again as I hugged my girlfriend tighter then I ever had and tears welled up in my eyes. The neighbors must of thought I was crazy but I didn't care.

After all we had put in to this team I can now say there is no better moment in sports then when your team does the unexpected with a first ring on the line.

I couldn't have been any happier. And maybe one day I'll make my first million or when I have a kid and it will take that moments place. But nothing has come close yet.

Even though we lost and the Steelers systematically moved down the field for thier record 6th ring it just fel so much less special from a fan perspective. They are spoiled and I don't think any Steeler fan will ever be able to understand how WE felt.

I'm obviously bias but that moment when we took the lead I think was just a collective relief and weight lifted off my shoulders that most sports fans might never know. I remember thinking in my head" THIS is why I poured my heart into this team" That 10 seconds when I thought we won it made the past 17 years of mostly agony all worth it.

It's like my signature says "You can't really enjoy the sweet without the sour, and WE know the sour"

 

[PoolBoy]

I just watched the NFC Championship game again. It is at the confetti part.

I am legitimately misty eyed just remembering that moment. Hope no one at work notices

haha thats crazy dude. im about to watch finish it, i watched the first half earlier then i had to go to work. and this thread is why i put it in.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Sunday 1/18/09 around 4:30ish pm, the clock reached 00:00 and as I stood in the stands I wiped the tears from my eyes.

Right there with you O. I'm still a little shell shocked from that moment. Talk about a kid in a candy store...

I hear ya, brothers. That moment in time was absolutely glorious. I captured it on video, but can't share it here or with family because all you can hear is me saying "Are you bleeping kidding me?" about 100 times. It was honestly one of the best days of my life, and I'm not ashamed to say so.

Being there, in that stadium, to beat the Eagles will stay with me forever. I don't think any of us wanted to leave that night.

Raining confetti -- and seeing the faces of all those wonderful players who had EARNED a trip to the Super Bowl. And Michael Bidwill, and the coaches.

While the fans who had assured me that an all Pennsylvania Super Bowl was destiny -- evaporated in a puff of smoke.

Eloquently put, brighteyes. I know I didn't want to leave that night. I called my brother, an Eagles fan, and said (when I got his voice mail) "I know you don't want to talk to me right now, but you gotta be happy for me. The Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl!" We would later lament about how close both our teams were to winning the big game.

Winning the NFC championship game was the biggest moment for me. How could it not be? This team made history. We were going to the Super Bowl!!!

The second would be the Cowboys win. Such sweet poetic justice. Finally, earning some respect.

The Fitz catch was the third. It would have been the first, but I looked at the clock after Fitz scored and thought "that's too much time." Still, it was a fabulous moment. For a brief moment in time, we were Super Bowl champs.

 

[English on tour]

meeting you lot


....the point when it hit me we were going to win the NFC and i started crying at the game wasnt too bad either.

 

[azpride101]

Aside from the postseason games, it has to be the win over Seattle on the road for me...I was there, and the Cards had never won a game up there in Qwest since 2002...kinda felt like the win that clinched the NFC West for me, knowing Seattle had owned that division since 2003...