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And that is why we are 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.720 gathered here today for this very special Cardinals Folktales edition 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.640 of The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.560 Miracle in the desert. That is the title of tonight's episode, 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.679 as we hit the rewind button and go back into 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.679 Cardinals history, all time anecdotes, as we like to say, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.080 Cardinals folktales where you can't spell the word history without 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.080 the word story. Paul calvic here, Darren Urban was there 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.600 covered the game back in two thousand and three. This 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.240 is the rare game, Darren, where it was best remembered 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.880 for what both teams did not get. The Vikings do 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.880 not get a playoff Berth, the Cardinals did not get 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.520 the first pick in the draft. Talking about this season 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.480 finale two thousand and three. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.760 This is true. I hadn't really thought about it that, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.600 but you know you going negative doesn't really surprise me 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:08.200 that much, Paul. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.080 Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:12.520 the game. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.920 Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got to the 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.120 playoffs because of that result, and they did feel like 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.799 winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to that 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.919 because he ended up in Green Bay a week later at. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.440 The playoff game. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:24.760 Yes. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.919 Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career. Yes, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.240 we're gonna learn in fact, you tell us since you 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.480 where were you, by the way, for Nate Poole's shining moment? 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.800 Were you still in the press pot? 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.320 In those days, all the reporters would gather in the 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.520 corner of the end zone, and we were down on 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.560 the end of the field that the Cardinals scored upon. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.200 We were just on the other side. So we were 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.960 down there in the between the back line the back 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.040 of the goal line, in about the ten yard line, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:00.440 watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly obviously because it was 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.600 on the far sideline the catch, but you could hear 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.720 the crowd explode. I was down there when you know, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.359 Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.040 the call when they were going to the replay. I 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.360 remember that very distinctly because we were on the field 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.639 by then and it was just it was an amazing 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.799 end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.400 as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.919 to them getting Larry Fitzgerald. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.160 Yeah, there was a lot of change after this game. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.480 Going into the game, though, I mean, what were the 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.960 odds the Cardinals had a chance to really win a 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.760 game when they hadn't won a game in nearly two months, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.720 and the Vikings needed the game to clinch a playoff spot. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.800 Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.000 think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.200 they lost, it didn't look real good for them to 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.240 get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.640 of bad teams to win, and it wind up working 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.880 out that way if they had had lost. But then again, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.240 you know, the Vikings came. I'm guessing they were a 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.600 little overconfident. I don't know. I remember watching the game 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.680 from the press box thinking to myself, they don't look 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.280 like they're ready to put this team away. The Vikings 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:12.920 don't look like they're ready to put the Cardinals away. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.760 And those Cardinal teams were not good, but they did 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.240 give effort, and you had a lot of guys out 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.760 there playing for the first time or very inexperienced Josh McCown, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.960 Reggie Wells. I mean, you go down the list, and 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.360 they just didn't give up. Now, they needed some bounces 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.680 there at the end, for sure, but the fact they 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.359 were even in shouting distance of the game never should 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:34.760 have happened. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.039 We're gonna get a full recap here because it really 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.200 is gripping. I mean, the first three quarters of the 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.920 game not so much, but it was seventeen to six 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.280 Vikings with under seven minutes to play, then just after 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.839 the two minute warning it's a one score game. You 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.520 need the on sidekick Neil Rackers, right, he was a 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.320 master at making the ball do different things. He had 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.680 that soccer background, and then things just got really crazy 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.359 from there. I mean, with all due respect to a 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.360 young Dave Patch behind the mic, it's the rare game 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.640 where the truly memorable radio calls came from a the 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.320 losing team and be the team that really benefited two 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.960 time zones away who needed a Cardinals win more than 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.200 the Cardinals did. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.720 Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.200 to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:28.120 top two there. But it was an amazing time all 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.200 the way around, just because of how it ended and 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.080 what it meant and just the memories of that game 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.279 and for Josh mccount and aatepool. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.080 And we're going to hear how it all unfolded in 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.040 real time at the time two thousand and three. Heck, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 it was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.800 Santa Colors right, red, white, and black. So this was 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.440 their own gift, their own parting gift of the home fans. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.560 And when we come back in this very special Cardinals 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.280 Folk Tales edition of The Big Red Rage, we'll hear 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.599 it for ourselves. Miracle in the Desert presented by santan Ford. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:05:59.920 In go. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.760 And welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales edition 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.159 of The Big Red Rage presented by Santanford and Gilbert. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.960 We're in rewind into Cardinals history because remember, you can't 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.240 spell the word history without the word story, and boy 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.159 do we have one. From the final week of the 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.520 regular season two thousand and three, Cardinals were hosting the 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.200 Vikings and the Cardinals had exactly nothing to play for 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.359 beyond the number one pick, which they would secure with 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.280 a loss. The nine and six Vikings came in. Remember 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.080 they had started six and oh that season, but their 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.600 playoff hopes were on the line. They needed a win 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.360 to secure a postseason berth and the week before they 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.680 had already KOed KC forty five to twenty. That was 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.520 a Kansas City team that went thirteen and three in 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.120 two thousand and three. So with that in mind, not 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.080 many gave the Cardinals a chance, but as quarterback of 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.720 the time, Josh McCown would say later, Hey, you've been 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.320 around coach McGuinness. He can make any game feel like 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.200 the super Bowl. And that would be foreshadowing because coach McGinnis, 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.080 who was great with the media, also had a great 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.600 comparison between the two receivers on the field that day 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.640 who were college teammates once upon a time at Marshall. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.480 We'll hear that a little bit later, but the Cardinals 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.000 were talking about Nate Poole. Thirty six career games in 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.160 the NFL, he managed a total of thirty four career 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.440 catches and two touchdowns, but at the end of his 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.280 brief time in the NFL, only one of those thirty 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.320 four receptions truly mattered. It got him a key to 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.360 a city, It got him a personalized phone call from 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.320 a mayor. It got him a local TV commercial all 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.480 in the city of Green Bay. So with that as 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.640 the background, let's hit that rewind button to miracle in 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.680 the It's the final week of two thousand and three, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.480 this season finale that would end the year for two teams. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.120 The count throwing far side into the end zone and 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:18.880 the ball. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.880 It is touchdown tortinles. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.160 An unbelievable turn of events. Not here at lambeau Field, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.040 but in the desert, you would have. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:29.720 Thought we won super Bowl. I mean, it was an 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.200 unbelievable moment. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.920 The things are going home for the new year. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.120 You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.480 Let alone to Nathan Poole. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.080 And they pulls a good person to make that play. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:43.000 He deserves that. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.439 Not one of the Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.760 You lose a game and it opens the door for 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:50.600 your worst enemy. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.439 The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:54.280 be host of the game. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.640 It was after if the sun fell out of the sky. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.640 You know, it was a miserable day of existence. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.520 That time that two teams played one game that stop 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.760 time in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.280 out of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.480 out of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.280 and three? All dictated by a Cardinals win that some 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.120 viewed as a loss. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.760 I think even the fans were like, now, let's just 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.080 get this season over and get the number one pick 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.640 walk away with the Eli manning. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.360 There was something to play for there there. You know 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.960 they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.560 He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.000 here he come, being. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.160 Of the angel mccount. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.200 Down knocked me out at number one pick too, Man, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.880 I probably been the first pick of the draft. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.720 Man, they cost me Nate poll Man. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.640 I'd never forgive him for that. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:52.760 I tell them that all the time. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.000 Nathan Pool may become a household name in green Bay. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.680 This is Mael Schmidz. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.040 I love to get you out to one of the 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.720 I said, oh no, I would love to come out. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.200 He was given a key to the city of Green 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.200 Bay and he got to go to their playoff game. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.200 I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.520 go out in Green Bay if that is his desire. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.040 He will have a lot of people who will take 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:14.880 good care of him. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.040 To the winner goes the spoils. That's after the Cardinals 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.880 took care of the Vikings. All right, a big win, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:27.080 but the big winner the Packers. Welcome into Cardinals Folktales 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.520 Miracle in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.640 we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time, anecdotes 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.600 through the recollections and memories of those who lived in or, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.280 in my case, those who covered it. My name is 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.920 Paul Kelvic, Cardinal's sideline reporter. We're talking about that time 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.200 when little known Nate Poole got the key to a 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.560 city while his own fan base lamented what it did 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:53.240 not get. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.400 People said, well, y'all, you know you cost it the 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:56.079 number one pick. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.760 The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinal's history 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:01.880 and one of the greatest receivers of all time. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.199 Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:11.120 Dot down down, Oh my god, I can't believe what 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:11.920 just happened. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:18.600 The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.440 One of the great calls, one of the great rule 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.640 of victory, agony of defeat moments in NFL history, every 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:38.199 bit as much Shakespearean tragedy as season finale. December twenty eighth, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.439 two thousand and three, Cardinals playing for the number one 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.440 pick with a loss, the Vikings playing for the postseason 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 with a win or a Packers loss. Yet none of 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.760 the above happened. Here's former head coach Dave McGinnis and 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.760 quarterback Josh McCown. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.880 We gotta win a game, and we haven't won a 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.120 game in seven weeks and we need to win a ballgame. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.720 You know, there are a lot of people pulling force. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.400 Obviously, Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.880 He was very captivating, and that was one of the 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.520 things that he talked about was just the ability to 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.360 knock those guys off. You know that they were coming in, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.720 they had to beat us, and you know they were 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.880 going to get into the playoffs, and so there was 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.960 something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.080 just a game where we're gonna roll the ball out 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.880 there and get it over with and go home. And 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.080 he was like, man, this is they're playing for something. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.440 We can be playing for something too. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.720 In two thousand and three, it was a sixteen game season. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.520 Cardinals entered the final week three and twelve. The Vikings, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.160 after a six and zero start, were nine and six, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.520 coming off a ko of KC the week before a 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.480 forty five to twenty drubbing of a Chiefs team that 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.120 would finish thirteen and three. So all the Vikings had 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.640 to do what everyone expected him to do, polish off 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.320 a reeling Cardinals team with a quarterback making his third 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.719 career start, a coach about to be fired, and the 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.480 NFL's all time leading rusher getting peppered about his own 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.440 future on Christmas Eve. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.480 I mean, who knows we can play hypothetical all day? 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:05.880 Is Macizia? 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.720 Great? But if he's not here, people coming in, what 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.920 their plans are, what the ideas, and what they thought. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.200 So I gotta win on all that. So you asking me. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.200 To make an answer to something that I don't have all. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.760 The information to, that's stupid. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.439 I'm not that stupid. Yeah, please, somebody to tell you 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.000 something to please Christmas? 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.440 Thank you? How about the spirit of John Inness and happiness? 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.520 That's former Cardinals running back and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.360 And hey, no doubt what would make the Red Sea 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.120 jolly and happy? The number one overall pick under their tree. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.000 Here's Voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pash was in his 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.880 second season in three. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.760 And you endure that long of a season and you're 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.240 calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.400 The one thing is, Okay, you got a chance to 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.360 get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.400 and get to that draft, get your guy, enjoy the 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.559 next ten years and a couple of Super Bowls like. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.280 That whole year. You grow up fast in this business 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.920 and you go, wait, they're gonna fire these coaches. Wait 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.640 a minute, they could draft a new quarterback like you know, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.680 I was just a quarterback of the future two days 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.040 ago that You know, all these things, you grow really fast. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.000 That's Cardinals could be Josh McCown, the third round pick 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.680 the year before, who earned the final three starts of 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.960 that O three season and tried to channel the confidence 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.760 that his head coach Dave McGinnis showed in him against 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.840 NFC North leading Minnesota. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.040 I think when you look at their roster, uh when 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.240 they're coming out to us with everything to play for, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.560 I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.080 at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.720 you know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know, 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.560 if that was an easy sale for coach, but he 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.920 did a good job of framing that for us, and 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.440 and I think he was, you know, benefited from a 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.480 young quarterback who didn't know any better and just was 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.560 gonna go out and play the game. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:15:00.560 It's the Cardinals and Vikings from Tempe Arizona Sun Devil Stadium. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.520 Not a lot of action for the announcers to call 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.520 in a fifty one degree day, a virtual snooze past 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.840 six to nothing at halftime, seven to six entering the 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:13.320 fourth quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass, A. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.680 Lot closer than many thought it would be, especially with 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.600 a playoffs spot on the line. Of the Vikings win, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.640 they clinch their division. If they lose and Green Bay wins, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.160 they're out of the playoffs. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.480 Then just over two minutes later, a forty six yard 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.800 fuel goal makes it seventeen to six Vikings with six 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.640 forty eight to play, but hang on. On the first 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.680 play after the two minute warning. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.800 McCown takes play, bank, rolls to his right, mccount in trouble, flushdown, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.480 throws end zone and going down to make the catch 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.600 for a touchdown of Steve Bush. Steve Bush with a 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:49.120 touchdown puch great improv job by Josh McCown. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.240 A fourteenth play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.040 so at seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:02.200 the Packers broadcast. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.480 James Rock Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.160 way the Packers can make the playoffs now is if 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.880 Minnesota loses this football game somehow, some way. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.600 That's the radio call at Lambell, Wayne Lairvie and Larry 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:24.480 McCarron paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.200 Green Bay, Cardinals are going to. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.080 Try to recover an onside kick to perhaps give us 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.640 a little bit more time to broadcast. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.200 Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.800 And you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.200 you know, blasting guys and right place, right time. That's 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.800 former Cardinals running back Damian Anderson. And that's the recipe, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:50.320 the mentality for a successful onside kick, because that's exactly 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.360 what the Cardinals needed. Good news, the Cards are just 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.600 picked up one of the best in the business in 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:56.520 Neil Rackers. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.560 So what fifty four to play? Neil Rackers is very 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.400 good with the on side kick. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.440 We were all standing there, you know, waiting him, because 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.439 that was we knew that that was the next piece. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.439 You know, you had to get that to keep the 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.480 ball game going. And you know, Neil hits a perfect 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.360 ball and I mean it was just how you drew 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.520 it up, you know. And Damien comes up with it. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.600 Rackers with the on side kick far aside, and it 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.960 bounce us in the air and the Cardinals have it. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.159 Of the forty two, Davian Anderson comes up with it 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.080 on the re direction and the Cards have a chance. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.680 With one's fifty four to play. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.480 The Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and Larry longehold 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.199 they recovered it for a minute fifty four to go 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.840 in that football game in the desert and the Vikings 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.399 leading seventeen to twelve. Well, I'm gonna shut up about 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:41.160 this last game. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:41.760 Stuff done. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.600 Maybe they don't a miracle. Keep talking about it. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.680 You may be jinxing us into something good here. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.560 Maybe that miracle can happen. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.800 You get to that onside kick and now all of 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.320 a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything can 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.400 happen against anybody anytime, and as we know. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:57.720 It did. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.080 That's long time voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. More 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.920 from him later, much more. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:03.680 Saul. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.600 Cardinals had the ball back one fifty four left sixty 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.960 one yards to go, needing a touchdown with one time 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.520 out after a thirty yard pass interference and a thirteen 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.240 yard completion in Nate Poole. The Cardinals reached the Minnesota 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.720 nine with thirty nine seconds to go. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.160 Meanwhile, out in the desert in Arizona, getting a little 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.560 bit closer. You know people are aware of this because 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.160 you could hear us in the crowd. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.480 There is definitely at everyone is out of their seats 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:37.159 in three different states. When Josh McCown is put on 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.440 his seat, two straight plays quit driving. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.520 McCown looking like pump back of mccount sacked back at 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.720 the seventeenyrd line of McCown flushed out running near side, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.480 lost the ball, it's loose, and the Cardinals they have 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:50.919 of the pound side out of the twenty. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.000 Eight Emmett has a presence of mind to go, Josh, 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.400 get up, get up, We gotta get the ball. Snap 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.520 we go, Wow, Tom House, we gotta go. So we 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.040 get to play call and then you know, and then 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.480 we you know, fortunately get the Boston. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.840 You knew that was Josh skill set, like call a 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.360 play that works for him, you know, get him out, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.760 you know, get him out in some space so he's'll 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.000 have a multitude of options. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.200 The clock running down under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.119 down in twenty four and. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:16.200 It's gonna come down to this. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.040 They gotta throw it into the end zone. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:19.040 This is it. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.440 Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from the twenty eight. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.119 The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging in the balance 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.000 once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.680 There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:35.080 of the way. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.920 Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you? 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.879 And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.440 last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.679 five and here we. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.040 Go eight seconds, seven six five four. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.760 The count of the ball. This will be the last play. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.639 The count steps up, rolling far side. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.159 Just so happened. He got flushed, He got flushed out 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.040 to the right. I said, oh, here he come. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.760