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Speaker 1: Here's Paul CALVICI.
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Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready.
Speaker 1: And Darren Urban, how about this Urban kid right.
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Speaker 1: You know, as much as I despised Shakespeare in college
Speaker 1: as an English undergrad, I love a good Shakespearean tragedy
Speaker 1: in football, especially when it happens to the opponent. And
Speaker 1: that is why we are gathered here today for this
Speaker 1: very special Cardinals Folktales edition of The Big Red Rage.
Speaker 1: Presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Miracle in the Desert.
Speaker 1: That is the title of tonight's episode, as we hit
Speaker 1: the rewind button and go back into Cardinals history all
Speaker 1: time anecdotes, as we like to say, Cardinals folktales where
Speaker 1: you can't spell the word history without the word story.
Speaker 1: Paul calvic Here, Darren Urban was there covered the game
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and three. This is the rare game, Darren,
Speaker 1: where it was best remembered for what both teams did
Speaker 1: not get. The Vikings do not get a playoff Berth,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals did not get the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: About this season finale two thousand and three.
Speaker 7: This is true.
Speaker 8: I hadn't really thought about it that but but you know,
Speaker 8: you going negative doesn't really surprise me that much, Paul.
Speaker 1: Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 8: Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got to the
Speaker 8: playoffs because of that result, and they they did feel
Speaker 8: like winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to
Speaker 8: that because he ended up in Green Bay a week
Speaker 8: later at the playoff game.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career.
Speaker 7: Yes, we're gonna learn.
Speaker 1: In fact, you tell us since you where were you,
Speaker 1: by the way, for Nate Pool's shining moment? Were you
Speaker 1: still in the press pot?
Speaker 8: In those days, all the reporters would gather in the
Speaker 8: corner of the end zone, and we were down on
Speaker 8: the end of the field that the Cardinals scored upon.
Speaker 8: We were just on the other side. So we were
Speaker 8: down there in the between the back line, the back
Speaker 8: of the goal line, in about the ten yard line,
Speaker 8: watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly obviously because it was
Speaker 8: on the far sideline the catch, but you could hear
Speaker 8: the crowd explode. I was down there when you know,
Speaker 8: Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them
Speaker 8: the call when they were going to the replay. I
Speaker 8: remember that very distinctly because we were on the field
Speaker 8: by then and it was just it was an amazing
Speaker 8: end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career
Speaker 8: as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard
Speaker 8: to them getting Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of change after this game.
Speaker 1: Going into the game, though, I mean, what were the
Speaker 1: odds the Cardinals had a chance to really win a
Speaker 1: game when they hadn't won a game in nearly two months,
Speaker 1: and the Vikings needed the game to clinch a playoff spot.
Speaker 8: Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody
Speaker 8: think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if
Speaker 8: they lost, it didn't look real good for them to
Speaker 8: get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple
Speaker 8: of bad teams to win, and it wind up working
Speaker 8: out that way if they had had lost. But then again,
Speaker 8: you know, the Vikings came in. I'm guessing they were
Speaker 8: a little overconfident.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I remember watching the game from the press box thinking
Speaker 8: to myself, they don't look like they're ready to put
Speaker 8: this team away. The Vikings don't look like they're ready
Speaker 8: to put the Cardinals away. And those Cardinal teams were
Speaker 8: not good, but they did give effort. And you had
Speaker 8: a lot of guys out there playing for the first
Speaker 8: time or very inexperienced Josh McCown, Reggie Wells. I mean,
Speaker 8: you go down the list and they just didn't give up. Now,
Speaker 8: they needed some bounces there at the end, for sure,
Speaker 8: but the fact they were even in shouting distance of
Speaker 8: the game never should have happened.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a full recap here because it really
Speaker 1: is gripping. I mean, the first three quarters of the
Speaker 1: game not so much, but it was seventeen to six
Speaker 1: Vikings with under seven minutes to play. Then just after
Speaker 1: the two minute warning it's a one score game. You
Speaker 1: need the on sidekick. Neil Rackers, right, he was a
Speaker 1: master at making the ball do different things. He had
Speaker 1: that soccer background, and then things just got really crazy
Speaker 1: from there. I mean, with all due respect to a
Speaker 1: young Dave Patch behind the mic, it's the rare game
Speaker 1: where the truly memorable radio calls came from a the
Speaker 1: losing team and be the team that really benefited two
Speaker 1: time zones away who needed a Cardinals win more than
Speaker 1: the Cardinals did.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect
Speaker 8: to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the
Speaker 8: top two there, but it was an amazing time all
Speaker 8: the way around, just because of how it ended and
Speaker 8: what it meant and just the memories of that game
Speaker 8: and for Josh mccount and aatepool.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear how it all unfolded in real
Speaker 1: time at the time two thousand and three. Heck, it
Speaker 1: was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team Santa Colors, right, red,
Speaker 1: white and black. So this was their own gift, their
Speaker 1: own parting gift of the home fans. And when we
Speaker 1: come back in this very special Cardinals Folktales edition of
Speaker 1: The Big Red Rage, we'll hear it for ourselves. Miracle
Speaker 1: in the Desert presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. And
Speaker 1: welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales edition of
Speaker 1: The Big Red Rage presented by santan.
Speaker 3: Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: We're in rewind into Cardinals history because remember, you can't
Speaker 1: spell the word history without the word story, and boy
Speaker 1: do we have one. From the final week of the
Speaker 1: regular season two thousand and three, Cardinals were hosting the
Speaker 1: Vikings and the Cardinals had exactly nothing to play for
Speaker 1: beyond the number one pick, which they would secure with
Speaker 1: the loss. The nine and six Vikings came in. Remember
Speaker 1: they had started six and oh that season, but their
Speaker 1: playoff hopes were on the line. They needed a win
Speaker 1: to secure a postseason berth and the week before they
Speaker 1: had already cooed KC forty five to twenty. That was
Speaker 1: a Kansas city team that went thirteen and three in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. So with that in mind, not
Speaker 1: many gave the Cardinals a chance. But as quarterback of
Speaker 1: the time, Josh McCown would say, later, Hey, you've been
Speaker 1: around coach McGuinness. He can make any game feel like
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And that would be foreshadowing because coach McGinnis,
Speaker 1: who was great with the media, also had a great
Speaker 1: comparison between the two receivers on the field that day
Speaker 1: who were college teammates once upon a time at Marshall.
Speaker 1: We'll hear that a little bit later, but the Cardinals
Speaker 1: were talking about Nate Poole thirty six career games in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He managed a total of thirty four career
Speaker 1: catches and two touchdowns, but at the end of his
Speaker 1: brief time in the NFL, only one of those thirty
Speaker 1: four receptions truly mattered. It got him a key to
Speaker 1: a city, It got him a personalized phone call from
Speaker 1: a mayor. It got him a local TV commercial all
Speaker 1: in the city of Green Bay. So with that as
Speaker 1: the background, let's hit that rewind button to Miracle in
Speaker 1: the Desert. It's the final week of two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: This season finale that would end the year for two teams.
Speaker 5: The count throwing far side into the end zone and.
Speaker 2: The ball is touchdown, Turtles.
Speaker 10: An unbelievable turn of evnch Not here at lambeau Field,
Speaker 10: but in the desert, you would.
Speaker 3: Have thought we won Suit Bowl. I mean, it was
Speaker 3: an unbelievable moment.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are.
Speaker 2: Going home for the new year.
Speaker 11: You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that.
Speaker 11: Let alone to Nathan Poole.
Speaker 3: And they pulls a good person to make that play.
Speaker 3: He deserves it.
Speaker 1: Not one other Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now.
Speaker 12: You lose a game and it opens the door for
Speaker 12: your worst enemy.
Speaker 9: The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to
Speaker 9: be host of the game.
Speaker 3: It was that if the sun fell out of the sky.
Speaker 12: You know, it was a miserable day of existence.
Speaker 1: Time that two teams played one game that stop time
Speaker 1: in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or out
Speaker 1: of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two, and three?
Speaker 1: All dictated by a Cardinals win that some viewed as
Speaker 1: a loss.
Speaker 5: I think even the fans were like, man, let's just
Speaker 5: get this season over and get the number one pick
Speaker 5: walk away with the Eli manning.
Speaker 3: There was something to play for there. They're you know,
Speaker 3: they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too.
Speaker 7: He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh,
Speaker 7: here he.
Speaker 9: Comes into the angel.
Speaker 1: The county.
Speaker 12: Knocked me out at number one pick too. Man, I
Speaker 12: probably been the first pick of the draft. Man, they
Speaker 12: cost me, Nate pull Man. I'd never forgive them for that.
Speaker 12: I tell them that all the time.
Speaker 10: Nathan Paul may become a household name in Green Pay.
Speaker 13: This is Mael Schmidt. I love to get you to
Speaker 13: one of the games. I said, oh no, I would love.
Speaker 7: To come out.
Speaker 11: He was given a key to the city of Green
Speaker 11: Bay and he got to go to their playoff game.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to
Speaker 6: go out in Green Bay if that is his desire.
Speaker 6: He will have a lot of people who will take
Speaker 6: good care of him to.
Speaker 1: The winner goes the Spoils. That's after the Cardinals took
Speaker 1: care of the Vikings. All right, a big win, but
Speaker 1: the big winner the Packers welcome into Cardinals Folktales miracle
Speaker 1: in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where we
Speaker 1: go in depth into Cardinals history, all time anecdotes through
Speaker 1: the recollections and memories of those who lived in or
Speaker 1: in my case, those who've covered it. My name is
Speaker 1: Paul kelvecon Cardinals sideline reporter. We're talking about that time
Speaker 1: when little known Nate Poole got the key to a city,
Speaker 1: while his own fan base lamented what it did not get.
Speaker 3: People said, well, y'all, you know you cost them the number
Speaker 3: one pick.
Speaker 5: The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinals hit
Speaker 5: and one of the greatest receivers of all time.
Speaker 3: Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings got down.
Speaker 11: Oh my god, I can't believe what just happened.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: One of the great calls, one of the great thrill
Speaker 1: of victory, agony of defeat moments in NFL history, every
Speaker 1: bit as much Shakespearean tragedy as season finale. December twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Cardinals playing for the number one
Speaker 1: pick with a loss, the Vikings playing for the postseason
Speaker 1: with a win or a Packers loss. Yet none of
Speaker 1: the above happened. Here's former head coach Dave McGinnis and
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh McCown.
Speaker 14: We're gonna win a game and we haven't won a
Speaker 14: game in seven weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean, we need to win a ballgame. You know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people I know pulling force.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room.
Speaker 3: He was very captivating, and that was one of the
Speaker 3: things that he talked about was just the ability to
Speaker 3: knock those guys off. You know that they were coming in,
Speaker 3: they had to beat us, and you know they were
Speaker 3: going to get into the playoffs, and so there was
Speaker 3: something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 3: just a game where we're gonna roll the ball out
Speaker 3: there and get it over with and go home. He
Speaker 3: was like, man, this is they're playing for something. We
Speaker 3: can be playing for something too.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, it was a sixteen game season.
Speaker 1: Cardinals entered the final week three and twelve. The Vikings,
Speaker 1: after a six and oho start, were nine and six,
Speaker 1: coming off a ko of KC the week before a
Speaker 1: forty five to twenty drubbing of a Chiefs team that
Speaker 1: would finish thirteen and three, So all the Vikings had
Speaker 1: to do what everyone expected him to do, polish off
Speaker 1: a reeling Cardinals team with a quarterback making his third
Speaker 1: career start, a coach about to be fired, and the
Speaker 1: NFL's all time leading rusher getting peppered about his own
Speaker 1: future on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 15: I mean, who knows we can play hypothetical all day?
Speaker 15: Is Macizia great? But if he's not here, people coming in,
Speaker 15: what their plans are, what the ideas, and what they thought.
Speaker 15: So I gotta I gotta win on all that. So
Speaker 15: you asking me to make up answer to something that
Speaker 15: I don't have all the information to, that's stupid. I'm
Speaker 15: not that stupid. Yeah, please, somebody changing something?
Speaker 1: Pleasemas thank you.
Speaker 15: How about the spirit of jollyness and happiness.
Speaker 1: That's former Cardinals running back and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith,
Speaker 1: And hey, no doubt what would make the Red Sea
Speaker 1: jolly and happy? The number one overall pick under their tree.
Speaker 1: Here's the voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pash was in
Speaker 1: his second season in three.
Speaker 5: When you endure that long of a season and you're
Speaker 5: calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games,
Speaker 5: the one thing is Okay, you got a chance to
Speaker 5: get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this
Speaker 5: and get to that draft. Get your guy, enjoy the
Speaker 5: next ten years and a couple Super bowls.
Speaker 3: Like that whole year. You grow up fast in this
Speaker 3: business and you go, wait, they're gonna fire these coaches.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, they could draft a new quarterback like
Speaker 3: you know, I was just a quarterback of the future
Speaker 3: two days ago.
Speaker 14: That.
Speaker 3: You know, all these things, you grow really fast.
Speaker 1: That's Cardinals could be Josh McCown, the third round pick
Speaker 1: the year before, who earned the final three starts of
Speaker 1: that O three season and tried to channel the confidence
Speaker 1: that his head coach Dave McGinnis showed in him against
Speaker 1: NFC North leading Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I think when you look at their roster U when
Speaker 3: they're coming out to us with everything to play for,
Speaker 3: I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking
Speaker 3: at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: You know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know,
Speaker 3: if that was an easy sale for coach, but he
Speaker 3: did a good job of framing that for us. And
Speaker 3: and uh and I think he was, you know, benefited
Speaker 3: from a young quarterback who didn't know any better and
Speaker 3: just was gonna go out and play the game.
Speaker 5: It's the Cardinals and Vikings from Tempe Arizona Sun Devil Stadium.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of action for the announcers to call
Speaker 1: in a fifty one degree day, a virtual snooze fast.
Speaker 1: Six to nine at halftime, seven to six entering the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass.
Speaker 5: Lock closer than many thought it would be, especially with
Speaker 5: a playoff spot on the line. Of the Vikings win,
Speaker 5: they clinch their division. If they lose and Green Bay wins, they're.
Speaker 10: Out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Then, just over two minutes later, a forty six yard
Speaker 1: fuel goal makes it seventeen to six Vikings with six
Speaker 1: forty eight to play, but hang on. On the first
Speaker 1: play after the two minute warning.
Speaker 5: McCown takes play, bank, rolls to his right, mccount in
Speaker 5: trouble flushdown, throws ends on and going down to make
Speaker 5: the catch for a touchdown of Steve Bush.
Speaker 1: Steve Bush for a touchdown catch.
Speaker 5: Great improv job by Josh McCown.
Speaker 1: A fourteen play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed,
Speaker 1: so as seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on
Speaker 1: the Packers broadcast.
Speaker 10: James Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only way
Speaker 10: the Packers can make the playoffs now is if Minnesota
Speaker 10: loses this football game somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: That's the radio call at Lambell, Wayne Larrvie and Larry
Speaker 1: McCarran paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in
Speaker 1: Green Bay.
Speaker 5: Cardinals are going to try to recover an onside kick
Speaker 5: to perhaps give us a little bit more time to broadcast.
Speaker 16: Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery. And
Speaker 16: you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there, you know,
Speaker 16: blasting guys and right place, right time.
Speaker 1: That's former Cardinals running back Damien Anderson. And that's the recipe,
Speaker 1: the mentality for a successful onside kick, because that's exactly
Speaker 1: what the Cardinals needed. Good news, The Cards are just
Speaker 1: picked up one of the best in the business in
Speaker 1: Neil Rackers.
Speaker 5: So what fifty four to play? Neil Rackers is very
Speaker 5: good with the on side kick.
Speaker 3: We were all standing there, you know, waiting because that
Speaker 3: was we knew that that was the next piece. You know,
Speaker 3: you had to get that to keep the ball game going,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, Neil hits a perfect ball, and
Speaker 3: I mean it was just how you drew it up,
Speaker 3: you know. And Damien comes up with.
Speaker 5: It, Rackers with the on side kick far aside and
Speaker 5: it bounce us in the air. Hey, the Cardinals have it.
Speaker 5: Of the forty two. Davian Anderson comes up with it
Speaker 5: on the re direction and the Cards have a chance.
Speaker 5: With onunch fifty four.
Speaker 10: To play, the Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and
Speaker 10: Larry Loan behold they recovered it with a minute fifty
Speaker 10: four to go in that football game in the desert
Speaker 10: and the Vikings leading seventeen to twelve.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm going to shut up about this last game.
Speaker 9: Stuff done. Maybe they don't have a miracle.
Speaker 10: Keep talking about it. You may be jinxing us into
Speaker 10: something good here.
Speaker 9: Maybe that miracle can happen.
Speaker 11: You get to that onside kick and now all of
Speaker 11: a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything can
Speaker 11: happen against anybody anytime, and as we know, it did.
Speaker 1: That's longtime voice of the bike means Paul Allen. More
Speaker 1: from him later, much more, Saul. Cardinals had the ball
Speaker 1: back one fifty four left sixty one yards to go,
Speaker 1: needing a touchdown with one time out. After a thirty
Speaker 1: yard pass interference and a thirteen yard completion in Nate Poole,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals reached the Minnesota nine with thirty nine seconds
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 10: I meanwhile, out in the desert in Arizona, getting a
Speaker 10: little bit closer.
Speaker 9: You know, people are aware of this because you could
Speaker 9: hear a thousand in the crowd.
Speaker 1: There is definitely everyone is out of their seats in
Speaker 1: three different states. When Josh McCown is put on his seat,
Speaker 1: two straight plays quit.
Speaker 5: Driving McCown looking left, hump thick of account sacked back
Speaker 5: at the seventeen eyline of McCown flushed out running near side,
Speaker 5: lost the ball, It's loose, and the Cardinals able the
Speaker 5: pound side up of the twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Emmittt has a presence of mind to go, Josh, get up,
Speaker 3: get up. We gotta get the ball. Snap we got well,
Speaker 3: got tome house. We gotta go. So we get to
Speaker 3: play call and then you know, and then we've you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: get the boss.
Speaker 16: Now you knew that was josh skill set, Like call
Speaker 16: a play that works for him, you know, get him out.
Speaker 16: You know, get him out in some space so he'll
Speaker 16: have a multitude of options.
Speaker 5: The clock running down, under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth
Speaker 5: down at twenty four, and.
Speaker 9: It's gonna come down to this. They gotta throw it
Speaker 9: into the end zone.
Speaker 1: This is it. Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from
Speaker 1: the twenty eight. The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging
Speaker 1: in the balance once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen.
Speaker 11: There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step
Speaker 11: of the way.
Speaker 1: Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you?
Speaker 10: And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the
Speaker 10: last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty
Speaker 10: five and here we go.
Speaker 5: Eight seconds seven six five four. The count of the ball.
Speaker 5: This will be the last play. The count steps up,
Speaker 5: rolling far side.
Speaker 7: Just so happened. He got flushed. He got flushed out
Speaker 7: to the right.
Speaker 5: I said, oh, here he come, but come throwing far
Speaker 5: side into the end zone and the ball it is pup, touchdown.
Speaker 11: Cardinals made pool and the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Win the game.
Speaker 2: On the final pool and the fight.
Speaker 1: Kiggs are going.
Speaker 2: Home for the new year.
Speaker 13: Josh Man, you know the whole time he's running he's rolling,
Speaker 13: he's pointing to the right. I'm inside. I know he's
Speaker 13: about to throw it over there. And the defender he
Speaker 13: had no clue.
Speaker 7: He had no clue.
Speaker 5: What a great throw by Josh McCown.
Speaker 1: He threw it up rolling, Hey Poole could get it,
Speaker 1: and he did it.
Speaker 3: I felt like it was just there was a connection
Speaker 3: for us, you know, and so booming there he is,
Speaker 3: and then the ball came out. Uh, and he makes
Speaker 3: an unbelievable cash.
Speaker 5: The Cardinals winning on the final play. Josh mccoum fen's
Speaker 5: made pool in the back of the end zone of
Speaker 5: the far side.
Speaker 3: You would thought we won a Super Bowl. And uh,
Speaker 3: I mean it was an unbelievable moment and edit middle
Speaker 3: to those guys out.
Speaker 1: There, But it meant even more to Nate Poole, the
Speaker 1: guy who had been cut four times and then he
Speaker 1: cut loose against the visiting Vikings fans who had populated
Speaker 1: and dominated Sun Devil Stadium trash talk in three two
Speaker 1: one take lso.
Speaker 7: Don't come back here and next to y'alling the same thing.
Speaker 1: Nate Poole, the living embodiment of the ups and downs
Speaker 1: of an NFL game. He was something fired up, while
Speaker 1: those Viking fans could have been more let down. Remember,
Speaker 1: Nate Poole was a player who was always in proven mode,
Speaker 1: always existing on the edge of the roster, so he
Speaker 1: played with an edge. We heard it right there, and
Speaker 1: it's amazing when you look back. How that one catch,
Speaker 1: that one toe tapping catch that proved to be a
Speaker 1: game winner, How it set off a domino effect, a
Speaker 1: whole litany of changes that altered the history of not
Speaker 1: only the Cardinals, but basically all the teams atop that
Speaker 1: two thousand and four draft franchise, quarterbacks going two different teams,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals getting themselves a Hall of Famer as well,
Speaker 1: who might have gone number one overall off the Cardinals
Speaker 1: were in that position, but they weren't. And the changes
Speaker 1: even extended to the rule book years later. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that when we come back. And don't forget Nate
Speaker 1: Pool was not just a celebrity in Arizona. He was
Speaker 1: the toast of the town in Green Bay. And we'll
Speaker 1: relive all that when we come back to this very
Speaker 1: special Cardinals Folktales edition of the Big Red Rage Miracle
Speaker 1: in the Desert, presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert it's
Speaker 1: our special Cardinals Bolktales edition of the Big Red Rage
Speaker 1: was santan Ford in Gilbert. This is where we go
Speaker 1: into Cardinals history, go into the archives. Can't spell the
Speaker 1: word history without the word story. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: the final game of the two thousand and three season.
Speaker 1: My name is Paul calvi Seen. We started by saying,
Speaker 1: remember that one time, that one game played by two
Speaker 1: teams in two thousand and three, that stop time in
Speaker 1: three different NFL cities. Remember Nate Poole, Cardinals receiver, and
Speaker 1: was the in or out of bounds? We posed that question, Well,
Speaker 1: he was most definitely inbounds, and the Vikings were most
Speaker 1: definitely out of the playoffs, and the Cardinals were out
Speaker 1: of the top pick in the draft. We'll get to that,
Speaker 1: but remember when it comes to the Vikings, you're talking
Speaker 1: about a team that not only started six to zero
Speaker 1: and was on the verge of the playoffs, but that season,
Speaker 1: the four worst teams in the league were the Giants,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Chargers, and the Cardinals. Each team finished
Speaker 1: four and twelve. Each one of those teams beat the Vikings,
Speaker 1: so you can imagine the angst on the Minnesota side
Speaker 1: in fact, their radio announcer, the voice of the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Paul Allen, became a meme before there even were memes
Speaker 1: in social media, and that's where we rejoined this edition
Speaker 1: of Cardinals Folktales Miracle in the Desert, and former Cardinals
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh McCown two years later had empathy for the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings because
Speaker 3: they were right there on the cusp, and to lose
Speaker 3: that way, man, that's bitter.
Speaker 1: Nate Pool's game winning playoff busting, last second fourth down
Speaker 1: touchdown catch was one of his two two career touchdowns,
Speaker 1: leaving the Vikings on the outside of the playoff picture
Speaker 1: looking in as radio voice Paul Allen and company were
Speaker 1: left in a state of utter disbelief.
Speaker 11: People were just staring longingly on the team bust to
Speaker 11: the airport. Nobody knew what to say, and they were
Speaker 11: just downtrodden. And you just don't lose like that. Nobody
Speaker 11: loses like that, let alone to Nathan Poole, not ang
Speaker 11: Kwam Bolden. So I mean, now as we connect the dots,
Speaker 11: you know, of the entire thing over twenty years, it
Speaker 11: hits me so vividly because of how emotional it was
Speaker 11: at that moment.
Speaker 2: The season's on the line, two receivers left and right.
Speaker 2: McCown takes the snap, he steps up, he's all by himself,
Speaker 2: fires into the end zone.
Speaker 7: Dods Dods down.
Speaker 2: No, no, the Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 11: The previous owner of the team, Red McCombs, hated that call.
Speaker 11: He didn't let me know, but he let others know.
Speaker 11: Some vice presidents here, so you know, I had some
Speaker 11: conversations with some vice presidents and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 11: you don't script moments like that, and that's what came out.
Speaker 11: So I had to deal with that very young in
Speaker 11: my career.
Speaker 5: I understand where Paul's coming from. You get invested in
Speaker 5: the team. It's your team, and I thought Paul handled
Speaker 5: it perfectly. Some people might say, uh, it's not professional,
Speaker 5: but that's how the fans feeling.
Speaker 3: No, are you kidding?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: That was Paul's reaction.
Speaker 11: One thing I remember about the call is I looked
Speaker 11: to my left where the coaches were, and our linebackers
Speaker 11: coach at that time, Pete Bursage, he could hear me
Speaker 11: through the glass yelling no, no, no, no, and then
Speaker 11: I came down. The Gardinals have knocked the Vikings out
Speaker 11: of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Speaker 11: The way he looked at me, it was not anger
Speaker 11: at me. It was one of two things. Oh my god,
Speaker 11: I can't believe what just happened. Oh my god, that
Speaker 11: check that I was going to get for a playoff bonus,
Speaker 11: it just went up into the tenpiece.
Speaker 1: Guy from Minnesota fans saying you sunk my Viking ship.
Speaker 1: Just the sheer agony of it all to the utter
Speaker 1: ecstasy of cheesehead nation listening on the Packers radio.
Speaker 10: Network, and here we go, this is if the season
Speaker 10: for the Packers. On the line into the end zone
Speaker 10: accounts pack Hey go.
Speaker 2: Out cutting down it as on Paco.
Speaker 1: By label thought complete deadlock from Wayne Larity and Larry
Speaker 1: McCarron reacting to a game they're not even calling, just
Speaker 1: watching from two thousand miles away.
Speaker 5: That is the biggest a miracle on the Packers.
Speaker 10: Sadly, any reps the Packers later, they finally realizes, any rep,
Speaker 10: I'm a final playoff. The regular season for the fight Kings,
Speaker 10: they lose eighteen of seventeen.
Speaker 9: The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're gonna be
Speaker 9: host of the game.
Speaker 16: True.
Speaker 1: Brett Farv and the Packers would host the Seahawks at
Speaker 1: Lambeau to open the playoffs. Later, Dave mcginni shared with
Speaker 1: the media that Packers coach Mike Sherman and GM Mark
Speaker 1: Hadley called him and said, quote, you're a bleeping king
Speaker 1: here in Green Bay. The thing is back in Tempee,
Speaker 1: speaking of coach mac different emotions, a different reality started
Speaker 1: to set in as the Cardinals locker room grew quiet,
Speaker 1: almost somber.
Speaker 14: For all that we've been through, we never quit on
Speaker 14: each other. It was a constant, constant reminder of what
Speaker 14: character I've got in this room.
Speaker 1: I've never been afraid to tell you that I love you.
Speaker 3: It was somber, and it's very sobering. You're just like, man,
Speaker 3: back to reality. This is what we're faced with. And
Speaker 3: he was genuine with his works and you know, and
Speaker 3: how I cared about guys, and so I think he
Speaker 3: understood in that moment that that was probably, you know,
Speaker 3: the last time or one of the last times he
Speaker 3: was going to address this as a group.
Speaker 14: I've never been afraid to open myself to you. Because
Speaker 14: you've got my heart. You've got my heart.
Speaker 3: You know it's a roller coaster really, because you were
Speaker 3: just as high as it gets. You know, for fifteen
Speaker 3: twenty minutes they're celebrating and enjoying one another, and then
Speaker 3: you know, the business sets in.
Speaker 14: When Nate Poole gave me this ball that he caught,
Speaker 14: what did I tell you last night? I cut this
Speaker 14: man four times. I cut him four times, and every
Speaker 14: time I did, he stood up in my office and
Speaker 14: hugged me and said, Mike, if you need me, I'll
Speaker 14: be back because you're the only man I want to
Speaker 14: play for.
Speaker 1: And that's the way I know that all of you
Speaker 1: feel right now.
Speaker 13: What was real motion on It was like you know,
Speaker 13: your last family hug, you know, and you and it
Speaker 13: hurt because we know, you know, he's a player's coach
Speaker 13: and he loved the players. He want the players to do,
Speaker 13: do you know, to excel, to be really great?
Speaker 1: You know what I feel for you?
Speaker 3: You know what I feel for you.
Speaker 17: This was a tremendous, tremendous demonstration of men that not
Speaker 17: only love each other, but believe, believe, believe, you know.
Speaker 13: Most of us felt like we let Dave down because
Speaker 13: you know, we didn't come up on the winning side
Speaker 13: of a lot of these games to keep him around.
Speaker 3: I'll never ever give up on you. I love you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: On the very next day, with a foreign swall season
Speaker 1: in the books, Cardinals head coach Dave McGinnis was indeed fired.
Speaker 1: Vikings head coach Mike Tye survived despite the Vikings collapse
Speaker 1: after that six and oh start. As for the Packers,
Speaker 1: the party was just starting and Nate Pool's celebrity was growing.
Speaker 10: Nathan Poll of all people hop about that Nathan Pull
Speaker 10: may become a household name in green Bay.
Speaker 11: It was an amazing play. But you know, like I
Speaker 11: say about Nathan, and I'm not being disparaging here, but
Speaker 11: that was his fifteen minutes of fame. And then of
Speaker 11: course the next week he was given a key to
Speaker 11: the city of Green Bay and he got to go
Speaker 11: to their playoff game.
Speaker 1: And that is accurate. Nate Poole, who going into the
Speaker 1: season finale had eight catches all season and no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: was now Packer's royalty, to the point where he got
Speaker 1: a call from the mayor of Green Bay.
Speaker 13: So Mayor Schmitz gave me a call and I was like, oh,
Speaker 13: here we go. Stop calling my phone because I'm thinking
Speaker 13: it's a player, and I'm thinking he's gonna call that
Speaker 13: player's gonna call me back and say, man, dude, what
Speaker 13: are you doing. Then I got a call right back
Speaker 13: the same number, and I'm like, okay, hey, how you
Speaker 13: doing this in April? And he was like, Hey, Nate, no,
Speaker 13: this is not a joke.
Speaker 7: This is Mayor Schmidt. I love to get you out
Speaker 7: in a speed talking I love to get you out
Speaker 7: to one of the games. I said, oh no, I
Speaker 7: would love to come out.
Speaker 1: And that's not the only call he got that week.
Speaker 1: On the Big Red Rage radio show with host Dave Pash,
Speaker 1: a Packers fan dialed in from the Midwest line too.
Speaker 5: Dave, Mary, Joe, Mary, Joe, Welcome to the Big Red Rage.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, thanks a lot. I was just calling to
Speaker 6: wish Nate a wonderful time in Green Bay and to
Speaker 6: give him a huge thank you. Since the Vikings started
Speaker 6: off six and oh this year, I've been taking a
Speaker 6: lot of grief for getting a lot of grief from
Speaker 6: my friends who are Viking fans, and I would roll
Speaker 6: my eyes and just say, oh, you know, won't you
Speaker 6: ever learn the Vikings will find some way to implode
Speaker 6: again this year and sweet revenge. It has been a
Speaker 6: wonderful couple of days, and I just want to offer
Speaker 6: a great big thank you.
Speaker 5: Hey, Mary Joe, how about taking Date ou to dinner
Speaker 5: when he gets up there.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to
Speaker 6: go out in Green Bay if that is his desire.
Speaker 6: He will have a lot of people who will take
Speaker 6: good care of him.
Speaker 1: Nate Poole laughed all the way to Green Bay and
Speaker 1: all its spense paid trip in January on the tax
Speaker 1: Beyer's tap as the undrafted receiver from Marshall became a
Speaker 1: grand Marshal of sorts. But don't forget about the other
Speaker 1: end of that touchdown pass QB. Josh McCown.
Speaker 3: You know, they fly Nate up to Green Bay and
Speaker 3: they give him a Kidah City or whatever they did,
Speaker 3: and they're sending us We were getting Christmas cards from
Speaker 3: Green Bay fans that it was their family Christmas card
Speaker 3: and you know it was you know, scratched out and
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas and thank you for beating the Vikings. Go
Speaker 3: Pat go, and loads of Christmas cards mail to the
Speaker 3: house of the Sargento family sent the best cheese basket
Speaker 3: you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 1: That was two thousand and three. But even to this day,
Speaker 1: when he's out and about, Josh McCown gets reaction for
Speaker 1: both school Nation and America's dairy lamb walking through.
Speaker 3: An airport or whatever, and there will be, you know,
Speaker 3: a disgruntled Vikings fan and hey, you you know you
Speaker 3: owe me, you know type of thing, or it'll be
Speaker 3: a Packers fan that'll be like, thank you for getting
Speaker 3: us in the playoffs that year, you know, we owe you.
Speaker 12: I was at home back in Minneapolis or watching that game,
Speaker 12: and I did not like Nate Poole because I thought
Speaker 12: I had a chance to be the number one pick,
Speaker 12: and I used to always mess with Nate.
Speaker 1: That's Minnesota native Larry Fitzgerald, not only a former Vikings
Speaker 1: ball boy and their number one fan at the time,
Speaker 1: but fits might have been the number one pick overall
Speaker 1: in the NFL draft.
Speaker 13: Me and Larry had that conversation. Believe me that he
Speaker 13: would have been the number one overall pick. We're talking
Speaker 13: in the receiver room before the meeting about being him
Speaker 13: being an number one pick. You know, as I think
Speaker 13: back to what his sided bonus was, how he didn't
Speaker 13: do too bad at the number three pick.
Speaker 3: People said, well, y'all, you know, you cost him the
Speaker 3: number one pick, and I go back and go, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't think Coach Green would have I think he
Speaker 3: would have picked Larry. He was gonna pick Larry, and
Speaker 3: it turned out really good for Larry and and ultimately
Speaker 3: for the Arizona Cardinals too. He helped lead that franchise,
Speaker 3: you know, through a lot of things to become a
Speaker 3: you know, a competitive franchise, and you know, to really
Speaker 3: what they are today.
Speaker 5: Walking away from that with mixed emotions of Wow, what
Speaker 5: a way to win a game, but also, oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: there goes the quarterback of the future, there goes he live.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Cardinals won the game, but lost the number one pick,
Speaker 1: which ended up being Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning. We'll
Speaker 1: never know who knew head coach Denny Green would have
Speaker 1: picked for the Cardinals, or do we. Larry Fitzgerald says
Speaker 1: at number one he still would have been the Cardinals selection.
Speaker 3: Then he said, I would have been. That's what he
Speaker 3: told me. I would have been.
Speaker 12: But you know what, it all worked his way out
Speaker 12: I was able to still get here and play for him.
Speaker 12: I know we didn't have the success I'd love to
Speaker 12: have for him. You know, he gave me my first
Speaker 12: two jobs I ever had as a ball boy and
Speaker 12: then as a professional athlete, and so I owe him
Speaker 12: a huge debt of gratitude and I'm just so very
Speaker 12: thankful for, you know, the doors he opened for me
Speaker 12: and my family.
Speaker 11: Touchdown Cardinals, they pull, the Cardinals win.
Speaker 2: The game, the final.
Speaker 13: I brong my heart head to practice in the games
Speaker 13: every day, and I knew, you.
Speaker 7: Know, that's what it was about. As growing up as
Speaker 7: a youngster.
Speaker 13: That would was about, you know, bringing your hard head
Speaker 13: and working out and just pushing to make the team.
Speaker 5: You know, coaches say, run every route as if it's
Speaker 5: your last one. Nate Pool really did it. But it
Speaker 5: was like comical, like he went so hard. So pretty
Speaker 5: cool to see a guy that worked that hard have
Speaker 5: one of the biggest plays of the season, not just
Speaker 5: for the Cardinals but for the entire league.
Speaker 13: I got to you, hey, you can only do it
Speaker 13: one play at a time. I got you on that play.
Speaker 1: And needless to say, it's the play in Nate Poole's
Speaker 1: career one of the most dramatic and consequential plays in
Speaker 1: NFL history.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And Nate Poole's a good person. He's a great person
Speaker 3: to be around. And you look back at that and
Speaker 3: that's a special moment for me in my career as well. So,
Speaker 3: but it couldn't happen to a better guy. And Nate's
Speaker 3: could dude?
Speaker 1: Yeah, who says good dudes? Finished last? Right? In fact,
Speaker 1: as Dave McGinnis said back then, with a smile to
Speaker 1: the media, quote, there were two receivers on the field
Speaker 1: from Marshall that day. They had Randy Moss, we had
Speaker 1: Nathan Poole. So there you have it. Cardinals Folktales Miracle
Speaker 1: in the Desert, presented by seventy two Soul for producer
Speaker 1: Jim Mamhundro. I'm Paul Calvic and that's the story of
Speaker 1: how an unknown receiver won that day, but a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame receiver was on his way.
Speaker 5: The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinals history
Speaker 5: and one of the greatest receivers of all time.
Speaker 18: With the third choice in the two thousand and four
Speaker 18: NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Larry Fitzgerald wide receiver,
Speaker 18: University of Crave.
Speaker 1: That was the red seat Cardinals fans at the official
Speaker 1: draft party two thousand and four welcoming Larry Fitzgerald to
Speaker 1: the Valley White, a departure from the climate a few
Speaker 1: months earlier, when many Cardinals fans viewed the win against
Speaker 1: the Vikings as a loss because the Cardinals lost out
Speaker 1: on the number one pick overall, ostensibly a franchise quarterback,
Speaker 1: which eventually was Eli Manning as the top overall pick.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the only change in the NFL. A
Speaker 1: few years after that, the force out rule would be eliminated,
Speaker 1: and one of the main examples cited was Nate Poole,
Speaker 1: who only had one foot down in the end zone
Speaker 1: on that game winning playoff busting touchdown catch that eliminated
Speaker 1: the Vikings. When we come back, Darren urban, would the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have taken a quarterback number one overall? Would it
Speaker 1: still have been Larry Fitzgerald. We'll get Darren's perspective when
Speaker 1: we come back with this very special Cardinals Full Tales
Speaker 1: edition of the Big Red Rage Miracle in the Desert
Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert, and we're wrapping up
Speaker 1: this very special Cardinals fulk Tales edition of the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul Kelvicy
Speaker 1: joined by Darren Irvan. Darren Irvan covered the game. Miracle
Speaker 1: in the Desert is the title of this Cardinal's Folktales
Speaker 1: where we're going to the archives in some great, rarely
Speaker 1: heard audio that are Jim Almahundro found both from the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Radio broadcast. Also some of the audio we
Speaker 1: heard from Larry Fitzgerald and coach McGinnis Josh McCown all
Speaker 1: talking about not only the end of the game, but
Speaker 1: the start of a new era of Cardinals football in
Speaker 1: so many different ways. In fact, let's start right there, Darren,
Speaker 1: because what if, what if the Cardinals had lost that game?
Speaker 1: What if they had picked number one overall? Would they
Speaker 1: still have picked Larry Fitzgerald or would they have gone
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback?
Speaker 8: You know, if I think they end up taking Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 8: because I think Danny Green wanted Larry Fitzgerald on his team.
Speaker 8: You know, I remember so vividly in the month leading
Speaker 8: up to the draft, Denny wasn't like a lot of
Speaker 8: coaches there were. Oftentimes when he was he said more
Speaker 8: than maybe then maybe he should. And I remember in
Speaker 8: those days, I was covering the team for the East
Speaker 8: Valley Tribune. I had come out to a day in
Speaker 8: the off season sometime in April, and I was the
Speaker 8: only writer here and the only other media member who
Speaker 8: was showing up was brad Cessmett, who was working for
Speaker 8: one of the local stations that day, and he had
Speaker 8: an interview apparently scheduled with Denny Green. And all they
Speaker 8: did was bring Denny Green down to the media area
Speaker 8: and then they just had a camera and they were
Speaker 8: sitting there and they're having it. So as a media member,
Speaker 8: I'm going to listen to the interview and take what
Speaker 8: I can.
Speaker 7: Get from it.
Speaker 1: Hey, nobody told you couldn't.
Speaker 8: So Denny Green is talking about and you have to
Speaker 8: remember again the draft with Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning
Speaker 8: and Philip Rivers, those are all available with the Cardinals
Speaker 8: picking third, and at this point the Cardinals quarterback was
Speaker 8: Josh McCown probably, and there were questions about Josh and
Speaker 8: whether he was gonna you know, and Denny loved Josh.
Speaker 8: He would talk him up all the time, and at
Speaker 8: one point Denny Green said, we're not going to take
Speaker 8: a quarterback third overall. Well, as a reporter, I had
Speaker 8: that in this day, this is pre internet, so I
Speaker 8: had a big banner headline the next day. Obviously, the
Speaker 8: other paper in town didn't have the story. So the
Speaker 8: next day I came back. There were other writers here.
Speaker 8: Ken Summer showed up, Bob Bomb from the Associated Press,
Speaker 8: and they get Denny Green to come down and talk
Speaker 8: and they're trying to get him to say the same
Speaker 8: thing again and he won't do it. And finally Bob
Speaker 8: Baum says to him, kind of half jokingly, we're trying
Speaker 8: to get you to say what you told Darren yesterday.
Speaker 8: And Denny looked at him and he goes, that was yesterday.
Speaker 7: Today is today?
Speaker 1: I tell you though, that was back in the days,
Speaker 1: and we just talked about this where a quarterback wouldn't
Speaker 1: always go number one, right, And we knew Denny's affinity
Speaker 1: for Larry Fitzgerald, his former ball boy by the way
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, so he knew Larry better than anyone and
Speaker 1: fits as it came to be. Once he did get drafted,
Speaker 1: he showed up in the Cardinals locker room, and there
Speaker 1: was Nate Poole. Nate Poole heard it from Larry that
Speaker 1: he cost him the number one pick overall.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, And look, it's not like the Cardinals made
Speaker 8: a poor pick by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 13: But you do.
Speaker 8: Wonder a little bit what, Okay, Eli Manning went number
Speaker 8: one and then Robert Gallery went number two. But you
Speaker 8: wonder a little bit if they didn't take fits and
Speaker 8: they take Ben Roethlisberger or they take Philip Rivers, how
Speaker 8: different does life with the Cardinals?
Speaker 7: You know happen? Now?
Speaker 8: The Cardinals make the two thousand and eight Super Bowl
Speaker 8: because they get Kurt Warner, who has his career renaissance
Speaker 8: throwing to Akwambolden and a very very good Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 8: And the Cardinals don't make the Super Bowl unless Larry
Speaker 8: has arguably the greatest performed postseason performance of any wide
Speaker 8: receiver ever.
Speaker 1: So, and guess what, Kurt Warner doesn't end with the
Speaker 1: Cardinals if Eli Manning doesn't end up with the Giants.
Speaker 7: All so true.
Speaker 8: So, although Eli wasn't drafted by the Giants, he was
Speaker 8: drafted by the Chargers and they had to make the
Speaker 8: trade for Philip Rivers.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of intrigue with that draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt. Look, Nate Poole didn't have much
Speaker 1: of a career after that. No always remembered for what
Speaker 1: he did for the Green Bay Packers. Got the all
Speaker 1: expenses pay trip in January to Green Bay, gladly because
Speaker 1: he got a key to the city and everything else.
Speaker 1: But they ended up changing the force out rule in
Speaker 1: large part because of how that went down in the
Speaker 1: end zone at Sun Devil Stadium.
Speaker 8: I had no question that it was a force out play.
Speaker 8: And now you have to get feet down and if
Speaker 8: a guy pushes you out of bounds your eye, that
Speaker 8: touchdown does not count in today's NFL.
Speaker 1: So many memorable moments and memorable radio calls from that game.
Speaker 1: One of the great historic moments in Cardinals history, and
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure reliving it, no doubt about it.
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