Category: Damn Cardinals

The more things change….

So I was digging around the old website that was the historic beginings of the this wordpress type blog looking for a picture of my brother with either Chip or Dale to post on facebook and just to generally be not nice…

I found the picture but I kept scrolling through and I found this little gem from December 8, 2002…

The Lions played the Cardinals this week… the Cardinals won in Overtime… the fact the Cardinals won is a miracle… but it is only a minor miracle since they beat the Lions… The only team worse then the Cardinals.

It’s nice to see that at least one of those things hasn’t changed… the other one well we are still waiting to see if the change is permanent…

And I guess if you really want to see the photo of my brother with either Chip or Dale…

Little brother be happy I had a change of heart on the whole facebook thing…

And the winner is…

OK so the big game is over… the Pro Bowl is done (not that I watched it) and I have finally coughed up a couple of boxes of Nilla Wafers so that some long running jokes can finally be put to bed…. or at the very least be made to suffer with a few other jokes that should have died along time ago… like “YOUR MOM!!”

Exactly…

I do have a couple of ponderous thoughts for you loyal readers this evening so won’t join me for a few moments and ponder these thoughts….

1. Why can I not get 2GB of RAM on a Windows XP based Dell netbook?   Just curious really I can get 2GB if I went with Ubuntu but that defeats the purpose of me getting a USB HD TV adapter and using the thing for tailgating next year.  Since all of the damn adapters only support Windows and not Linux… also note that this will probably be the only time you see me preferring Windows over anything.

2. How come there is no cheap pay as you go wireless data infrastructure?    I’m looking for 3G wireless data speeds and not wanting to pay $60 a month for it… I would like to do something similar to a pay as you go phone and only pay for data on days that I use it and when I pay for data I don’t want it to be a 10MB cap or something small like that I want it to be a 500MB or 1GB cap you know so I could actually get some work done if I had too.  Also I want said data network to cost me in the neighborhood of $5 a for 24 hours of usage and be reasonably reliable.

3.  I hate Phoenix sports writers… I don’t know if it’s just the teams this year but I seriously am starting to dislike all of them.

4.  Also my loathing of the MPAA and all thing that involve me not having control OVER MEDIA I LEGALLY PURCHASED WITH MY OWN MONEY… grew to new levels. So this has generally made me think that this is the only measure I can really take to make sure my stuff is open and compatible.

Its so right on sooo many levels.
It's so right on sooo many levels.

From me coming to you “Steelers” is a four letter word…

It’s just past 24 hours since YOUR ARIZONA CARDINALS and that other team advanced to the Superbowl.  And as expected I’ve already several articles calling the Cardinals the worst Superbowl team ever.

Wow don’t let the Cardinals fans enjoy a moment or two in the sun before you begin shooting holes into our miracle season.

Sorry, I can’t contain myself.   I would like to read just one article that was up on the Cardinals that didn’t involve how great Fitzgerald was or the second coming of Warner… Though I never get tired of reading the articles about how great Fitzgerald is and how the second coming of Warner is out of now where.

Actually as I look over Sports Illustrated again… I’m seeing a fair number of of articles painting the Cardinals as the underdogs with a chance.  So maybe I should just cool it… you know I’m kind of hot blooded

OK so yeah….

Expect a fair amount of trash talking between me and another certain Steelers fan… I feel that I’ve earned it even if it’s only for two weeks and the Cardinals do have to go up against a defense that makes the Iron Curtain look warm and inviting.

Hopefully the oppostion will take it easy on us lowly Cardinals fans….

We’ve never gotten to trash talk a good team before…

Wait… we did beat the Cowboys when they were still supposed to be here 🙂

On Hell…. And it’s freezing over…

21 years…

Cardinals Fan 20 to 35 thousand would come out each week and watch the Cardinals… In game after game… sometimes they would show up and win… more often then not miss some little thing and lose the game.

21 years…

The Cardinals have been the Doormat for Arizona sports teams and the but of any number of jokes….

21 years….

The Cardinals always look good on paper but always were paper tigers..

21 years no more.

The slate is wiped clean… The sins of the past are now in the past…

Fitzgearls

We go to the superbowl… win or lose…

WE DO THIS TOGETHER!!

This is necessary…. life feeds on life feeds on lie

Ok it’s 24 hours after the game and it almost doesn’t hurt to talk…. it used to be 48 hours before I got to this point… so either I didn’t yell as much (no likely) or my vocal chords are now the most developed muscle in my upper body…

“I’ll take people who need to get off their ass and start working out for a $200 please Alex”.

More on that later… it’s also not the first time I’ve talked about it nor will it be the last.

I was also contemplating on posting the spirited exchange that Eve and I had via txt message during the course of the game.  I was wanting to do this for two reasons.  First to document that Eve is a closet Cardinals fan (as most are), and two semi-admittance that Steelers fans may be just a tad dim.  Alas I decided to not upset the order of things… Rather, I’m saving that energy for other people like say a certain Giants fan whose team may come up against my #1 team or my #2 team.

So your probally wondering what these txt messages contain don’t you?  Well here’s a little peak… The mutual loathing/hatred that Eve, I, and probally a good portion of the Football watching public have towards Chris Colinsworth.  And something about a Elk Gun, motive, and oppurtuntity.

So now the question is this, the Cardinals play in Carolina next week… And assuming they win and assuming the Giants lose to the Eagles… There could be a NFC championship game in Phoenix.

Oh god… that could be very expensive… but so worth it.

Of course the Cardinals have to win first… and well remember what I said about talking shit about the other team.

Have Faith Baby, Have Faith

And Now a Word…. About My Arizona Cardinals!

This was the quote that was displayed in the stadium just before the Cardinals took the field on Saturday

If you have to play on an opponent’s field in January, you pray Arizona is the opponent. Atlanta Journal Constitioun 12/29/2008

While the Cardinals may be heartbreakers and deal chasers most of the time, when they show up and play they show up in a big way.  And not just yesterday… I’ve watched them play some really great football and some really bad football over the last couple of years.

All I have to say is this, never talk shit about your opponet… it only makes them better.

Hightower comes across the goal line

Bring on the next team!

Football town USA…

I have almost always considered Phoenix a NBA town first and foremost… and a MLB town in the summer and with the Dbacks doing good.

Today on my way to the Cardinals game on I-10 just South of the Broadway Curve there is a billboard that reads simply “Go Cards”

Holy shit!  The Cardinals aren’t even in the playoffs and there are Pro Cardinals signs up!

I think the clincher for me was at the stadium seeing a thinner then usual crowd of Blue and White and a very loud and racious Red Sea on the inside…

Now if they could have just won the game….

Oh well I guess I can’t everything.

GO CARDINALS!!