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Visit Azycardinals 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:41.800 dot Com Slash podcast. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.879 All Right, Sea, its rising Uard. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.360 Jump you, rising vision, Flurry Rage, take it Ober. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.000 Here's Paul CALVICI. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:52.640 I'm ready. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.560 I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.320 And Darren Urban, how about this Urban kid right. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:01.360 The field. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.080 You know, as much as I despised Shakespeare in college 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.399 as an English undergrad, I love a good Shakespearean tragedy 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.800 in football, especially when it happens to the opponent. And 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.160 that is why we are gathered here today for this 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.640 very special Cardinals Folktales edition of The Big Red Rage. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.959 Presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Miracle in the Desert. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.080 That is the title of tonight's episode, as we hit 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.679 the rewind button and go back into Cardinals history all 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.480 time anecdotes, as we like to say, Cardinals folktales where 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.240 you can't spell the word history without the word story. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.880 Paul calvic Here, Darren Urban was there covered the game 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.400 back in two thousand and three. This is the rare game, Darren, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.920 where it was best remembered for what both teams did 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.480 not get. The Vikings do not get a playoff Berth, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.840 the Cardinals did not get the first pick in the draft. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.840 About this season finale two thousand and three. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:04.200 This is true. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.120 I hadn't really thought about it that but but you know, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.600 you going negative doesn't really surprise me that much, Paul. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.480 Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:13.919 the game. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.320 Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got to the 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.480 playoffs because of that result, and they they did feel 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.160 like winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.839 that because he ended up in Green Bay a week 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.880 later at the playoff game. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:26.160 Yes. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.560 Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.120 Yes, we're gonna learn. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.400 In fact, you tell us since you where were you, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.160 by the way, for Nate Pool's shining moment? Were you 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.200 still in the press pot? 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.720 In those days, all the reporters would gather in the 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.920 corner of the end zone, and we were down on 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.960 the end of the field that the Cardinals scored upon. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.639 We were just on the other side. So we were 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.359 down there in the between the back line, the back 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.480 of the goal line, in about the ten yard line, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.840 watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly obviously because it was 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.000 on the far sideline the catch, but you could hear 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.120 the crowd explode. I was down there when you know, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.760 Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.440 the call when they were going to the replay. I 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.799 remember that very distinctly because we were on the field 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.079 by then and it was just it was an amazing 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.200 end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.799 as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.320 to them getting Larry Fitzgerald. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.560 Yeah, there was a lot of change after this game. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.880 Going into the game, though, I mean, what were the 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.360 odds the Cardinals had a chance to really win a 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.200 game when they hadn't won a game in nearly two months, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.120 and the Vikings needed the game to clinch a playoff spot. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.280 Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.400 think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.600 they lost, it didn't look real good for them to 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.640 get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.040 of bad teams to win, and it wind up working 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.320 out that way if they had had lost. But then again, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.600 you know, the Vikings came in. I'm guessing they were 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:03.640 a little overconfident. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:04.040 I don't know. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.360 I remember watching the game from the press box thinking 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.680 to myself, they don't look like they're ready to put 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.480 this team away. The Vikings don't look like they're ready 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.520 to put the Cardinals away. And those Cardinal teams were 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.720 not good, but they did give effort. And you had 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.799 a lot of guys out there playing for the first 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.599 time or very inexperienced Josh McCown, Reggie Wells. I mean, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.720 you go down the list and they just didn't give up. Now, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.000 they needed some bounces there at the end, for sure, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.880 but the fact they were even in shouting distance of 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.159 the game never should have happened. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.440 We're gonna get a full recap here because it really 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.600 is gripping. I mean, the first three quarters of the 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.360 game not so much, but it was seventeen to six 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.680 Vikings with under seven minutes to play. Then just after 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.280 the two minute warning it's a one score game. You 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.920 need the on sidekick. Neil Rackers, right, he was a 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.720 master at making the ball do different things. He had 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.160 that soccer background, and then things just got really crazy 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.760 from there. I mean, with all due respect to a 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.760 young Dave Patch behind the mic, it's the rare game 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.039 where the truly memorable radio calls came from a the 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.760 losing team and be the team that really benefited two 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.360 time zones away who needed a Cardinals win more than 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:18.599 the Cardinals did. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.080 Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.599 to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.560 top two there, but it was an amazing time all 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.600 the way around, just because of how it ended and 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.480 what it meant and just the memories of that game 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.680 and for Josh mccount and aatepool. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.799 And we're gonna hear how it all unfolded in real 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.599 time at the time two thousand and three. Heck, it 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.599 was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team Santa Colors, right, red, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.160 white and black. So this was their own gift, their 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.840 own parting gift of the home fans. And when we 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.080 come back in this very special Cardinals Folktales edition of 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.560 The Big Red Rage, we'll hear it for ourselves. Miracle 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:07.680 in the Desert presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. And 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.839 welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales edition of 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.720 The Big Red Rage presented by santan. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.600 Ford in Gilbert. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.440 We're in rewind into Cardinals history because remember, you can't 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.720 spell the word history without the word story, and boy 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.640 do we have one. From the final week of the 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:29.040 regular season two thousand and three, Cardinals were hosting the 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.719 Vikings and the Cardinals had exactly nothing to play for 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.880 beyond the number one pick, which they would secure with 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.800 the loss. The nine and six Vikings came in. Remember 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.599 they had started six and oh that season, but their 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.120 playoff hopes were on the line. They needed a win 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.880 to secure a postseason berth and the week before they 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.200 had already cooed KC forty five to twenty. That was 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.000 a Kansas city team that went thirteen and three in 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.600 two thousand and three. So with that in mind, not 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.560 many gave the Cardinals a chance. But as quarterback of 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.240 the time, Josh McCown would say, later, Hey, you've been 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.800 around coach McGuinness. He can make any game feel like 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.640 the Super Bowl. And that would be foreshadowing because coach McGinnis, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.560 who was great with the media, also had a great 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.080 comparison between the two receivers on the field that day 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.160 who were college teammates once upon a time at Marshall. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.960 We'll hear that a little bit later, but the Cardinals 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.520 were talking about Nate Poole thirty six career games in 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.640 the NFL. He managed a total of thirty four career 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.960 catches and two touchdowns, but at the end of his 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.800 brief time in the NFL, only one of those thirty 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.840 four receptions truly mattered. It got him a key to 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.840 a city, It got him a personalized phone call from 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.800 a mayor. It got him a local TV commercial all 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.960 in the city of Green Bay. So with that as 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.200 the background, let's hit that rewind button to Miracle in 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.200 the Desert. It's the final week of two thousand and three. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.960 This season finale that would end the year for two teams. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.640 The count throwing far side into the end zone and. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.000 The ball is touchdown, Turtles. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.640 An unbelievable turn of evnch Not here at lambeau Field, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.720 but in the desert, you would. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.080 Have thought we won Suit Bowl. I mean, it was 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.720 an unbelievable moment. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:32.880 The Vikings are. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.400 Going home for the new year. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.000 Let alone to Nathan Poole. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.560 And they pulls a good person to make that play. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:43.600 He deserves it. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.960 Not one other Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.280 You lose a game and it opens the door for 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.120 your worst enemy. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.920 The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:54.800 be host of the game. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.120 It was that if the sun fell out of the sky. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.640 You know, it was a miserable day of existence. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.439 Time that two teams played one game that stop time 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.480 in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or out 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.120 of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or out 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.600 of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two, and three? 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:24.120 All dictated by a Cardinals win that some viewed as 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:24.640 a loss. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.240 I think even the fans were like, man, let's just 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.600 get this season over and get the number one pick 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.160 walk away with the Eli manning. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.840 There was something to play for there. They're you know, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.480 they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.080 He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh, 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:37.760 here he. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:38.880 Comes into the angel. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.640 The county. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.760 Knocked me out at number one pick too. Man, I 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.920 probably been the first pick of the draft. Man, they 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.160 cost me, Nate pull Man. I'd never forgive them for that. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:53.240 I tell them that all the time. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.520 Nathan Paul may become a household name in Green Pay. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.160 This is Mael Schmidt. I love to get you to 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.800 one of the games. I said, oh no, I would love. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:03.200 To come out. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.720 He was given a key to the city of Green 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.680 Bay and he got to go to their playoff game. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.680 I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.000 go out in Green Bay if that is his desire. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.559 He will have a lot of people who will take 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.079 good care of him to. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.839 The winner goes the Spoils. That's after the Cardinals took 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.120 care of the Vikings. All right, a big win, but 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:28.160 the big winner the Packers welcome into Cardinals Folktales miracle 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.160 in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where we 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.680 go in depth into Cardinals history, all time anecdotes through 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.120 the recollections and memories of those who lived in or 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.760 in my case, those who've covered it. My name is 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.439 Paul kelvecon Cardinals sideline reporter. We're talking about that time 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.240 when little known Nate Poole got the key to a city, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.720 while his own fan base lamented what it did not get. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.200 People said, well, y'all, you know you cost them the number 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:56.560 one pick. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.920 The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinals hit 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.360 and one of the greatest receivers of all time. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:08.320 Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings got down. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.440 Oh my god, I can't believe what just happened. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:23.280 The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.960 One of the great calls, one of the great thrill 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:33.160 of victory, agony of defeat moments in NFL history, every 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:38.680 bit as much Shakespearean tragedy as season finale. December twenty eighth, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.960 two thousand and three. Cardinals playing for the number one 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.920 pick with a loss, the Vikings playing for the postseason 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.520 with a win or a Packers loss. Yet none of 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.240 the above happened. Here's former head coach Dave McGinnis and 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:54.800 quarterback Josh McCown. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.400 We're gonna win a game and we haven't won a 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.240 game in seven weeks. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.920 I mean, we need to win a ballgame. You know, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.200 there are a lot of people I know pulling force. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.920 Obviously, Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.360 He was very captivating, and that was one of the 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.040 things that he talked about was just the ability to 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.880 knock those guys off. You know that they were coming in, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.240 they had to beat us, and you know they were 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.360 going to get into the playoffs, and so there was 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.480 something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.560 just a game where we're gonna roll the ball out 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.480 there and get it over with and go home. He 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.720 was like, man, this is they're playing for something. We 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:25.920 can be playing for something too. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.200 In two thousand and three, it was a sixteen game season. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.000 Cardinals entered the final week three and twelve. The Vikings, 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.679 after a six and oho start, were nine and six, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.000 coming off a ko of KC the week before a 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.960 forty five to twenty drubbing of a Chiefs team that 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.600 would finish thirteen and three, So all the Vikings had 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.120 to do what everyone expected him to do, polish off 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.839 a reeling Cardinals team with a quarterback making his third 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.280 career start, a coach about to be fired, and the 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.959 NFL's all time leading rusher getting peppered about his own 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.920 future on Christmas Eve. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.000 I mean, who knows we can play hypothetical all day? 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.080 Is Macizia great? But if he's not here, people coming in, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.120 what their plans are, what the ideas, and what they thought. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.880 So I gotta I gotta win on all that. So 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.000 you asking me to make up answer to something that 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.880 I don't have all the information to, that's stupid. I'm 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.200 not that stupid. Yeah, please, somebody changing something? 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.440 Pleasemas thank you. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.960 How about the spirit of jollyness and happiness. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.040 That's former Cardinals running back and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.840 And hey, no doubt what would make the Red Sea 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.600 jolly and happy? The number one overall pick under their tree. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.400 Here's the voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pash was in 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.120 his second season in three. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.280 When you endure that long of a season and you're 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.760 calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.920 the one thing is Okay, you got a chance to 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.840 get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.880 and get to that draft. Get your guy, enjoy the 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.920 next ten years and a couple Super bowls. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.400 Like that whole year. You grow up fast in this 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.960 business and you go, wait, they're gonna fire these coaches. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.800 Wait a minute, they could draft a new quarterback like 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.800 you know, I was just a quarterback of the future 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:11.360 two days ago. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:11.520 That. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.520 You know, all these things, you grow really fast. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.520 That's Cardinals could be Josh McCown, the third round pick 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.200 the year before, who earned the final three starts of 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.440 that O three season and tried to channel the confidence 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.280 that his head coach Dave McGinnis showed in him against 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.320 NFC North leading Minnesota. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.560 I think when you look at their roster U when 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.720 they're coming out to us with everything to play for, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.040 I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.600 at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.200 You know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.040 if that was an easy sale for coach, but he 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.440 did a good job of framing that for us. And 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.720 and uh and I think he was, you know, benefited 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.680 from a young quarterback who didn't know any better and 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.080 just was gonna go out and play the game. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:15:01.080 It's the Cardinals and Vikings from Tempe Arizona Sun Devil Stadium. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.000 Not a lot of action for the announcers to call 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.040 in a fifty one degree day, a virtual snooze fast. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.360 Six to nine at halftime, seven to six entering the 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.960 fourth quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.200 Lock closer than many thought it would be, especially with 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.040 a playoff spot on the line. Of the Vikings win, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.680 they clinch their division. If they lose and Green Bay wins, they're. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:22.680 Out of the playoffs. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.920 Then, just over two minutes later, a forty six yard 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.280 fuel goal makes it seventeen to six Vikings with six 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.160 forty eight to play, but hang on. On the first 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.200 play after the two minute warning. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.200 McCown takes play, bank, rolls to his right, mccount in 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.560 trouble flushdown, throws ends on and going down to make 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.480 the catch for a touchdown of Steve Bush. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.160 Steve Bush for a touchdown catch. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.560 Great improv job by Josh McCown. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.760 A fourteen play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.520 so as seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.560 the Packers broadcast. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:08.160 James Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only way 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.400 the Packers can make the playoffs now is if Minnesota 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.360 loses this football game somehow, some way. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.120 That's the radio call at Lambell, Wayne Larrvie and Larry 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:25.000 McCarran paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:25.800 Green Bay. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.640 Cardinals are going to try to recover an onside kick 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.160 to perhaps give us a little bit more time to broadcast. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.600 Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery. And 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.560 you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there, you know, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.400 blasting guys and right place, right time. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.360 That's former Cardinals running back Damien Anderson. And that's the recipe, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:50.800 the mentality for a successful onside kick, because that's exactly 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.880 what the Cardinals needed. Good news, The Cards are just 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.120 picked up one of the best in the business in 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.040 Neil Rackers. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.120 So what fifty four to play? Neil Rackers is very 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.880 good with the on side kick. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.040 We were all standing there, you know, waiting because that 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.239 was we knew that that was the next piece. You know, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.680 you had to get that to keep the ball game going, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.399 and uh, you know, Neil hits a perfect ball, and 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.240 I mean it was just how you drew it up, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.960 you know. And Damien comes up with. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.680 It, Rackers with the on side kick far aside and 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.480 it bounce us in the air. Hey, the Cardinals have it. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.639 Of the forty two. Davian Anderson comes up with it 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.600 on the re direction and the Cards have a chance. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:27.840 With onunch fifty four. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.919 To play, the Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.160 Larry Loan behold they recovered it with a minute fifty 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.320 four to go in that football game in the desert 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.920 and the Vikings leading seventeen to twelve. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.680 Well, I'm going to shut up about this last game. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.880 Stuff done. Maybe they don't have a miracle. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.400 Keep talking about it. You may be jinxing us into 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:47.160 something good here. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.080 Maybe that miracle can happen. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.320 You get to that onside kick and now all of 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.800 a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything can 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.200 happen against anybody anytime, and as we know, it did. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.560 That's longtime voice of the bike means Paul Allen. More 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.560 from him later, much more, Saul. Cardinals had the ball 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.160 back one fifty four left sixty one yards to go, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.920 needing a touchdown with one time out. After a thirty 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.639 yard pass interference and a thirteen yard completion in Nate Poole, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.879 the Cardinals reached the Minnesota nine with thirty nine seconds 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:21.240 to go. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.359 I meanwhile, out in the desert in Arizona, getting a 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:25.320 little bit closer. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.440 You know, people are aware of this because you could 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:29.680 hear a thousand in the crowd. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.520 There is definitely everyone is out of their seats in 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:38.359 three different states. When Josh McCown is put on his seat, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.520 two straight plays quit. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.880 Driving McCown looking left, hump thick of account sacked back 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.280 at the seventeen eyline of McCown flushed out running near side, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.119 lost the ball, It's loose, and the Cardinals able the 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:51.360 pound side up of the twenty eight. 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.800 Emmittt has a presence of mind to go, Josh, get up, 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.239 get up. We gotta get the ball. Snap we got well, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.359 got tome house. We gotta go. So we get to 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.440 play call and then you know, and then we've you know, unfortunately, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:00.920 get the boss. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.240 Now you knew that was josh skill set, Like call 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.880 a play that works for him, you know, get him out. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.280 You know, get him out in some space so he'll 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.560 have a multitude of options. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.720 The clock running down, under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.600 down at twenty four, and. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.600 It's gonna come down to this. They gotta throw it 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:18.760 into the end zone. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.160 This is it. Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.959 the twenty eight. The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.520 in the balance once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.200 There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:35.640 of the way. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.440 Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you? 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.439 And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.960 last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.520 five and here we go. 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:53.160