Super Bowl XLIII

[AJ Barnett]

Who wants to throw out there guesses on who will take Super Bowl XLIII? The spread averages about 6.25 (Arizona -6.25, Pittsburgh +6.25) for those who have placed bets on the game. Just put it up in the poll which team you think will win.

[SlammHockey]

Take Arizona with the points, it will be a +3 game. That is what Jonathon Stone told me to do when I called his 1-800 number.

[STEMM]

+4 pretty close

[alex]

As a Cardinals fan, I can't help but have a terrible, terrible taste in my mouth after this game, both for questionable calls and for our self-inflicted wounds. How do you not review that last throw by Warner? Overturned or not, how do you not review the final deciding play of the Super Bowl? I've seen more questionable throws overturned and ruled an incompletion, had that one been reviewed, there was a 15-yard unsportsmanlike against Pittsburgh after the play that would have been tacked on. We'd have had the ball on the Steelers' 30 yard line.

Even without that...using the ball as a prop in a TD celebration, as Holmes did after the game winner, is an AUTOMATIC 15 yards on the kickoff. Where's the consistency? It's been called like that before why not here??? Because it's the Super Bowl...that was garbage. Maybe the Warner fumble isn't overturned but if we get the 15 yards for Holmes' celebration, then Warner isn't scrambling around the pocket to throw a hail mary because we'd have the ball 15 yards closer! Garbage.

We'd have had the ball on the 30, don't tell me we wouldn't have had a decent chance of winning with a 30 yard TD pass. Who is better than Fitzgerald at winning jump balls? Give me a break.

[TourBandits]

Are you one of those fans that just found out you had a team about three weeks ago?

[ianmackie]

Hey Alex, just so you feel better...I thought the refs should have called pass interference on the Cardinals against the Eagles on the last play with Kevin Curtis in the NFC Championship game...wait, that doesn't help at all.

[alex]

Are you one of those fans that just found out you had a team about three weeks ago?

No, I remember when we were still the Phoenix Cardinals and I remember watching our last playoff game, prior to this season, in 1998 when I was a 12-year-old kid, but thanks for the stupid remark.

[alex]

Hey Alex, just so you feel better...I thought the refs should have called pass interference on the Cardinals against the Eagles on the last play with Kevin Curtis in the NFC Championship game...wait, that doesn't help at all.

It wasn't though. If you watch too many hours of NFL Network as I do, there's replays that show it...Curtis and Rod Hood get their feet tangled together and that's what causes Curtis to begin falling, not Hood's arm brushing against Curtis' leg as he's nearly on the ground already. Hood was looking at McNabb to read the throw when their feet became entangled, if the defensive player isn't looking, incidental contact like that isn't pass interference.

And even if PI was called there, the Eagles still had to drive the field (after McNabb had missed on his previous 4 throws) just to tie it and send it to OT. On the other hand, 15 yards tacked on to our final drive in the Super Bowl is the difference between Warner running around trying to throw a hail mary from midfield, or with a chance to win throwing from the 30 yard line in the final seconds to the best group of receivers in the league including Fitzgerald, the absolute best at going up and getting jump balls. That's all I'm saying!