Are You Serious, Cardinal’s Fans?

After a fun day of watching football with Jeffrey, and watching Favre do what Favre does, Fox switched coverage from the Packers/Vikings game to show the last minute of the Arizona Cardinals losing badly to the Panthers. 

I didn’t see the whole game, but during the last minute they showed Kurt Warner’s 5 interceptions and fumble in highlights.  After he threw his 5th interception, I thought I heard something.  So I rewound and listened a little harder.  I couldn’t believe my ears, I heard boo’s!

Watching the lowlights of the interceptions, I did take note that a couple of the pics were one tipped passes, one was a miraculous grab by Julius Peppers who came out of nowhere and one was a desperation pass with 20 seconds left in the game.  And the crowd booed. 

Cardinals “Fans” Let me just tell you a second who you booed…

The guy who easily could have been league MVP last year.

The guy who did everything in his power and played a near perfect game in the Super Bowl and was one drive away from winning the Super Bowl while playing for the AZ Cardinals.

The guy who takes pride in not only being a good, religious man, but also a constant community leader who cares about the city.

The guy who plays every game behind the worst offensive line in the NFL year in and year out. 

The guy who sacrifices his body every game taking some of the worst quarterback hits of any qb in the league.

The guy who set completion records only 3 games ago.

 

And You booed him.  Because he had a bad game.  A bad game where he completed over 60% of his passes for about 250 yards and 2 td’s. 

Do you as Cardinals fans truly believe that you deserve this team?  Idiots who don’t know anything say that your team was the worst super bowl team in the modern era, to which you can reply that you were one minute from pulling out a victory and beat good teams to get to the game itself.  Remember how you cheered during the playoffs and the super bowl last year?  Remember how you really didn’t care all year up until then? 

I actually predicted this.  I predicted that the Cards would eventually have a good year and people would jump on the bandwagon.  I predicted that you bandwagon jumpers would be the dumbest fans of all times.  I predicted that it would take next to nothing to get you to jump off of the band wagon.  I said that bandwagon fans were OK last year because until then the Cards never gave us anything to cheer for.  But I made it clear that anyone who jumped off of the band wagon because the Cards didn’t pull off another miracle season, was a terrible fan, actually no fan at all.  Just another jerk who loves success and tosses on a Yankees hat every other year when the Yankees buy a team who gets to the series. 

The Suns and Dbacks spoiled you.  The Dbacks are a team for only a couple of years and win the series and you think that’s how sports work.  The Suns are perennially a winning team usually nabbing 50+ win seasons, and you think that somehow you deserve that.  You think that now that the cards figured out how to win and now you are entitled to treat them the way Packers fans treat their team. 

You are not a good enough fan to boo your hall of fame quarterback when he has a rough game. 

What do you think would be better?  Matt Leinart?  Do you really think he’s going to lead the Cards better?  Under the pressure that Warner gets, Leinart crumbles and gets eaten alive.  The Cards have the worst offensive line in the league.  Every year.  For 20 years.  Boo that.

But don’t boo it out loud.  Boo it to Bill Bidwell. 

You wanna know how to get the Cards back to the Superbowl?  Trade Leinart for 2 good offensive linemen.  The defense is first class.  Hall of Fame quarterback.  Two very solid running backs.  The best receiving corps in the league.  Trade something for a couple of good offensive linemen and you will be as solid as any NFL team. 

I became a fan last year, and I am going to stay a fan.  If you are booing at this point, take the Fitzgerald Jersey that you bought last year and sell it at the garage sale.  You will be miserable if you try and endure the ups and downs that a real team goes through.  My advice is to go out and buy a Yankees hat, and the jersey for the team that Favre is currently playing for and cheer for them.  Then you will get what you deserve, a cheap thrill.