Congratulations to Phaedra and AZ!

[SportsFan68]

(Phaedra is the screen name my older brother from Phoenix uses sometimes.)

What a game!

[DaveSenior72]

wow, wow and WOW!!!

I NEVER thought I'd see the Cardinals in the SB

[SportsFan68]

Outta here for now -- I may wander back around halftime.

Unless the Ravens play better than I think they will, in which case I'll be taking SteelersFan to the hospital.

Snow in da Burgh! Go Steelers!

[ne1410s]

The Cardinals have the chance to end the second longest World Championship drought in North American sports history. Wonder who is first...

[Oral B Roberts]

All hail God's Quarterback as he leads another downtrodden team to the Promised Land!

Now if only he can face off with God's Linebacker in the Super Bowl, we can have the holy war to end all holy wars....

[kayrharris]

Has anything been normal about the playoffs this year? I didn't pay that much attention and I suppose
Arizona had the homefield advantage, but I believe most thought the Eagles would win this game. I'm sure
if that's wrong, someone will correct me. The way it's going this year, I wouldn't want to be a favorite in any game, including the Super Bowl!!

I shall go pull for the Steelers now. Pulling for the Eagles didn't help, I hope i don't jinx the Steelers.

[littlebeast13]

Has anything been normal about the playoffs this year? I didn't pay that much attention and I suppose
Arizona had the homefield advantage, but I believe most thought the Eagles would win this game. I'm sure
if that's wrong, someone will correct me. The way it's going this year, I wouldn't want to be a favorite in any game, including the Super Bowl!!

I shall go pull for the Steelers now. Pulling for the Eagles didn't help, I hope i don't jinx the Steelers.

My predictions from the intuity thread....

AZ 27
PHI 24

BAL 10
PIT 9

Not bad, only missed by 6 total points.....

Now to get the second game right.....

lb13

[peacock2121]

Has anything been normal about the playoffs this year? I didn't pay that much attention and I suppose
Arizona had the homefield advantage, but I believe most thought the Eagles would win this game. I'm sure
if that's wrong, someone will correct me. The way it's going this year, I wouldn't want to be a favorite in any game, including the Super Bowl!!

I shall go pull for the Steelers now. Pulling for the Eagles didn't help, I hope i don't jinx the Steelers.

My predictions from the intuity thread....

AZ 27
PHI 24

BAL 10
PIT 9

Not bad, only missed by 6 total points.....

Now to get the second game right.....

lb13

Bite not just me.

[WheresFanny]

YAY Cardinals! Although I had to root for the Panthers on form if nothing else, I wasn't too broken up about them losing.

I also had no idea until recently that they hadn't had any playoff wins in St. Louis.

Last night we did playoff predictions and I predicted a score of 35-24 Arizona. I was pretty close!

My Pittsburgh-Baltimore prediction was

Spoiler

19-12 Baltimore

[WheresFanny]

Has anything been normal about the playoffs this year? I didn't pay that much attention and I suppose
Arizona had the homefield advantage, but I believe most thought the Eagles would win this game. I'm sure
if that's wrong, someone will correct me. The way it's going this year, I wouldn't want to be a favorite in any game, including the Super Bowl!!

I shall go pull for the Steelers now. Pulling for the Eagles didn't help, I hope i don't jinx the Steelers.

My predictions from the intuity thread....

AZ 27
PHI 24

BAL 10
PIT 9

Not bad, only missed by 6 total points.....

Now to get the second game right.....

lb13

Ha! My nephew's prediction was 11-10 Pittsburgh. My mom asked him how he came up with 11 and I said, "3 field goals and a safety, I guess". Then my nephew says "No, 3 field goals and a safety!"

What? We must excuse the poor guy, he's an Eagles fan (although he was forced to agree with me that Larry Fitzgerald is a god among wide receivers). His brother, on the other hand, is a Steelers fan. There would have been blood on the floor and hair on the walls during Superbowl Sunday if an all-PA game had happened.

[o-man]

'gratz to the mac & the rest of the Kardz fans & ruters out there. Warner was his usual composed self for that last drive, and that was the difference. I hope the AFC champeenship is as close a game.

[SportsFan68]

Has anything been normal about the playoffs this year? I didn't pay that much attention and I suppose
Arizona had the homefield advantage, but I believe most thought the Eagles would win this game. I'm sure
if that's wrong, someone will correct me. The way it's going this year, I wouldn't want to be a favorite in any game, including the Super Bowl!!

I shall go pull for the Steelers now. Pulling for the Eagles didn't help, I hope i don't jinx the Steelers.

My predictions from the intuity thread....

AZ 27
PHI 24

BAL 10
PIT 9

Not bad, only missed by 6 total points.....

Now to get the second game right.....

lb13

You could still get Baltimore's final score right. Sorta hope you do.

[gotribego26]

The Cardinals have the chance to end the second longest World Championship drought in North American sports history. Wonder who is first...

And when they end that drought in two weeks my team will slide into second place on the list.

Steeler nation is starting to annoy me more than Cowboy nation.

[o-man]

And when they end that drought in two weeks my team will slide into second place on the list.

The problem with the tribe is that smiling Indian. Have you seen how menacing most of these winning-team logos are? Chief Wahoo needs an angrier look...that'll do it!

[peacock2121]

The Cardinals have the chance to end the second longest World Championship drought in North American sports history. Wonder who is first...

And when they end that drought in two weeks my team will slide into second place on the list.

Steeler nation is starting to annoy me more than Cowboy nation.

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

Otherwise, it's pretty cool.

Tiger fans are awful.

[gotribego26]

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

You are so charmingly naive when it comes to sports - Cowboy nation is the most annoying fan base I know of - they have won nothing in well over a decade. Steelers nation is annoying all the time. They are rising to the level of Cowboy fans.

On a local level the University of South Carolina fans are annoying and they haven't mattered in FB or hoops forever.

My annoyance with a fan base may rise some when they win, but the Steelers fan base is high on my meter all the time.

[littlebeast13]

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

You are so charmingly naive when it comes to sports - Cowboy nation is the most annoying fan base I know of - they have won nothing in well over a decade. Steelers nation is annoying all the time. They are rising to the level of Cowboy fans.

On a local level the University of South Carolina fans are annoying and they haven't mattered in FB or hoops forever.

My annoyance with a fan base may rise some when they win, but the Steelers fan base is high on my meter all the time.

Tribe is most correct. Obnoxiousness with sports fans has little to nothing to do with whether their team is winning.....

I will never forget the way Cubs fans acted after they came in St. Louis this past September and took a series. With the way they rubbed all that W merchanidise in everyone's face, you'd have thought they had won at least one World Series in the past 100 years......

lb13

[gotribego26]

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

You are so charmingly naive when it comes to sports - Cowboy nation is the most annoying fan base I know of - they have won nothing in well over a decade. Steelers nation is annoying all the time. They are rising to the level of Cowboy fans.

On a local level the University of South Carolina fans are annoying and they haven't mattered in FB or hoops forever.

My annoyance with a fan base may rise some when they win, but the Steelers fan base is high on my meter all the time.

Tribe is most correct. Obnoxiousness with sports fans has little to nothing to do with whether their team is winning.....

I will never forget the way Cubs fans acted after they came in St. Louis this past September and took a series. With the way they rubbed all that W merchanidise in everyone's face, you'd have thought they had won at least one World Series in the past 100 years......

lb13

D'oh - how could I forget the annoyance of Cubs nation! (My father is a lifeling Cubs fan - but in total Cubs fan are annoying)

And Red Sox nation was far more annoying to me before 2004 - of course they way the took down the Yankees may have had something to do with it.

[DaveSenior72]

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

You are so charmingly naive when it comes to sports - Cowboy nation is the most annoying fan base I know of - they have won nothing in well over a decade. Steelers nation is annoying all the time. They are rising to the level of Cowboy fans.

On a local level the University of South Carolina fans are annoying and they haven't mattered in FB or hoops forever.

My annoyance with a fan base may rise some when they win, but the Steelers fan base is high on my meter all the time.

Tribe is most correct. Obnoxiousness with sports fans has little to nothing to do with whether their team is winning.....

I will never forget the way Cubs fans acted after they came in St. Louis this past September and took a series. With the way they rubbed all that W merchanidise in everyone's face, you'd have thought they had won at least one World Series in the past 100 years......

lb13

He is also most correct about Cowboy fans...

...although I hear there are a lot of people around here making a pretty penny from selling Tampa-area hotel reservations they made back in training camp

[peacock2121]

Winners are annoying when your team is not a winner.

You are so charmingly naive when it comes to sports - Cowboy nation is the most annoying fan base I know of - they have won nothing in well over a decade. Steelers nation is annoying all the time. They are rising to the level of Cowboy fans.

On a local level the University of South Carolina fans are annoying and they haven't mattered in FB or hoops forever.

My annoyance with a fan base may rise some when they win, but the Steelers fan base is high on my meter all the time.

My mom says Gator fans are the worse in the nation. I will go with her even though, thses days, she doesn't make much sense.

I kinda like being charmingly naive.

Go Steelers!

Go Baby Boy!

[BigDrawMan]

larry fitz has good hair

[mellytu74]

Many regular readers of the Bored will know that Andy Reid has driven me crazy over the last couple of years.

I do not think he is capable of being a GM and a head coach at the same time. I have stated here (and in conversations with people here) that Andy Reid, GM, does Andy Reid, coach, no favors in his drafting.

That said, I am far more disppointed with the Eagles' defense yesterday than I am with Donovan McNabb. There would have been no need for a dramatic fourth-quarter comeback had the Eagles' defensive scheme contained some plays other than single coverage of the exquisitely talented Larry Fitzgerald the entire game.

I am disappointed with Reid's play calling.

Example -- this year, whenever they've tried to minimize Westbrook's injuries, they've had him out on flanker with Buckhalter in the backfield. It's worked well every time and even minimized some of the punishment Westbrook gets at running back.

Did they go to it once yesterday? Nope.

They desperately need a compliment to Westbrook. I guess Andy Reid, GM, thought he was getting that in Lorenzo Booker. Which tells you what you need to know about Andy Reid, GM.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. I am disappointed when Philadelphia teams lose.

But I am much more keenly disappointed for TLAF and Boonie, both of whom are bigger football fans than I am. And my goddaughter's dad, who had all his Eagle stuff out when I was at their house the other day. And my other friends, and their friends, and their friends, who live and die with this team.

Maybe it's 15 years as a sportswriter but my gut told me that any team that tied the 2008 Cincinnati Bengals probably wouldn't be going to the Super Bowl.

Baseball and college basketball are my real loves.

For me, the sting of John Chaney's second-seeded Temple Owls losing to Seton Hall in the second round of the 2000 NCAA tournament is, and will forever be, the game that will bring me to tears in the middle of the night when I am maudlin. (OK. Exaggeration but you know what I mean). More than any Eagle loss in an NFC championship game ever could.

If the Cardinals protect Warner the way they did yesterday, it could very well be a close game.

I am still rooting for the Steelers.

But, as I mentioned in clem's thread, it has everything to do with the Pottsville Maroons and nothing to do with Andy Reid.

Who drives me crazy.