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Speaker 1: than that leash the field. You know, as much as
Speaker 1: I despised Shakespeare in college as an English undergrad, I
Speaker 1: love a good Shakespearean tragedy in football, especially when it
Speaker 1: happens to the opponent. And that is why we are
Speaker 1: gathered here today for this very special Cardinals Folktales edition
Speaker 1: of The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Miracle in the desert. That is the title of tonight's episode,
Speaker 1: as we hit the rewind button and go back into
Speaker 1: Cardinals history, all time anecdotes, as we like to say,
Speaker 1: Cardinals folktales where you can't spell the word history without
Speaker 1: the word story. Paul calvic here, Darren Urban was there
Speaker 1: covered the game back in two thousand and three. This
Speaker 1: is the rare game, Darren, where it was best remembered
Speaker 1: for what both teams did not get. The Vikings do
Speaker 1: not get a playoff Berth, the Cardinals did not get
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft. Talking about this season
Speaker 1: finale two thousand and three.
Speaker 4: This is true. I hadn't really thought about it that,
Speaker 4: but you know you going negative doesn't really surprise me
Speaker 4: that much, Paul.
Speaker 1: Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got to the
Speaker 4: playoffs because of that result, and they did feel like
Speaker 4: winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to that
Speaker 4: because he ended up in Green Bay a week later at.
Speaker 5: The playoff game.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn in fact, you tell us since you
Speaker 1: where were you, by the way, for Nate Poole's shining moment?
Speaker 1: Were you still in the press pot?
Speaker 4: In those days, all the reporters would gather in the
Speaker 4: corner of the end zone, and we were down on
Speaker 4: the end of the field that the Cardinals scored upon.
Speaker 4: We were just on the other side. So we were
Speaker 4: down there in the between the back line the back
Speaker 4: of the goal line, in about the ten yard line,
Speaker 4: watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly obviously because it was
Speaker 4: on the far sideline the catch, but you could hear
Speaker 4: the crowd explode. I was down there when you know,
Speaker 4: Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them
Speaker 4: the call when they were going to the replay. I
Speaker 4: remember that very distinctly because we were on the field
Speaker 4: by then and it was just it was an amazing
Speaker 4: end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career
Speaker 4: as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard
Speaker 4: 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 4: Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody
Speaker 4: think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if
Speaker 4: they lost, it didn't look real good for them to
Speaker 4: get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple
Speaker 4: of bad teams to win, and it wind up working
Speaker 4: out that way if they had had lost. But then again,
Speaker 4: you know, the Vikings came. I'm guessing they were a
Speaker 4: little overconfident. I don't know. I remember watching the game
Speaker 4: from the press box thinking to myself, they don't look
Speaker 4: like they're ready to put this team away. The Vikings
Speaker 4: don't look like they're ready to put the Cardinals away.
Speaker 4: And those Cardinal teams were not good, but they did
Speaker 4: give effort, and you had a lot of guys out
Speaker 4: there playing for the first time or very inexperienced Josh McCown,
Speaker 4: Reggie Wells. I mean, you go down the list, and
Speaker 4: they just didn't give up. Now, they needed some bounces
Speaker 4: there at the end, for sure, but the fact they
Speaker 4: were even in shouting distance of the game never should
Speaker 4: 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 4: Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect
Speaker 4: to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the
Speaker 4: top two there. But it was an amazing time all
Speaker 4: the way around, just because of how it ended and
Speaker 4: what it meant and just the memories of that game
Speaker 4: and for Josh mccount and aatepool.
Speaker 1: And we're going to hear how it all unfolded in
Speaker 1: real time at the time two thousand and three. Heck,
Speaker 1: it was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team
Speaker 1: Santa Colors right, red, white, and black. So this was
Speaker 1: their own gift, their own parting gift of the home fans.
Speaker 1: And when we come back in this very special Cardinals
Speaker 1: Folk Tales edition of The Big Red Rage, we'll hear
Speaker 1: it for ourselves. Miracle in the Desert presented by santan Ford.
Speaker 7: In go.
Speaker 1: And welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales edition
Speaker 1: of The Big Red Rage presented by Santanford and 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: a 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 KOed 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 It's the final week of two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: this season finale that would end the year for two teams.
Speaker 3: The count throwing far side into the end zone and
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 1: It is touchdown tortinles.
Speaker 8: An unbelievable turn of events. Not here at lambeau Field,
Speaker 8: but in the desert, you would have.
Speaker 5: Thought we won super Bowl. I mean, it was an
Speaker 5: unbelievable moment.
Speaker 3: The things are going home for the new year.
Speaker 6: You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that.
Speaker 6: Let alone to Nathan Poole.
Speaker 5: And they pulls a good person to make that play.
Speaker 5: He deserves that.
Speaker 1: Not one of the Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now.
Speaker 9: You lose a game and it opens the door for
Speaker 9: your worst enemy.
Speaker 8: The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to
Speaker 8: be host of the game.
Speaker 9: It was after if the sun fell out of the sky.
Speaker 9: You know, it was a miserable day of existence.
Speaker 1: That time that two teams played one game that stop
Speaker 1: time in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or
Speaker 1: out of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two,
Speaker 1: and three? All dictated by a Cardinals win that some
Speaker 1: viewed as a loss.
Speaker 3: I think even the fans were like, now, let's just
Speaker 3: get this season over and get the number one pick
Speaker 3: walk away with the Eli manning.
Speaker 5: There was something to play for there there. You know
Speaker 5: they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too.
Speaker 10: He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh,
Speaker 10: here he come, being.
Speaker 8: Of the angel mccount.
Speaker 9: Down knocked me out at number one pick too, Man,
Speaker 9: I probably been the first pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: Man, they cost me Nate poll Man.
Speaker 6: I'd never forgive him for that.
Speaker 1: I tell them that all the time.
Speaker 8: Nathan Pool may become a household name in green Bay.
Speaker 6: This is Mael Schmidz.
Speaker 10: I love to get you out to one of the
Speaker 10: I said, oh no, I would love to come out.
Speaker 6: He was given a key to the city of Green
Speaker 6: Bay and he got to go to their playoff game.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to
Speaker 7: go out in Green Bay if that is his desire.
Speaker 7: He will have a lot of people who will take
Speaker 7: good care of him.
Speaker 1: To the winner goes the spoils. That's after the Cardinals
Speaker 1: took care of the Vikings. All right, a big win,
Speaker 1: but the big winner the Packers. Welcome into Cardinals Folktales
Speaker 1: Miracle in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where
Speaker 1: we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time, anecdotes
Speaker 1: through the recollections and memories of those who lived in or,
Speaker 1: in my case, those who covered it. My name is
Speaker 1: Paul Kelvic, Cardinal's sideline reporter. We're talking about that time
Speaker 1: when little known Nate Poole got the key to a
Speaker 1: city while his own fan base lamented what it did
Speaker 1: not get.
Speaker 5: People said, well, y'all, you know you cost it the
Speaker 5: number one pick.
Speaker 3: The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinal's history
Speaker 3: and one of the greatest receivers of all time.
Speaker 5: Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings.
Speaker 6: Dot down down, Oh my god, I can't believe what
Speaker 6: just happened.
Speaker 11: The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: One of the great calls, one of the great rule
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 12: We gotta win a game, and we haven't won a
Speaker 12: game in seven weeks and we need to win a ballgame.
Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot of people pulling force.
Speaker 5: Obviously, Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room.
Speaker 5: He was very captivating, and that was one of the
Speaker 5: things that he talked about was just the ability to
Speaker 5: knock those guys off. You know that they were coming in,
Speaker 5: they had to beat us, and you know they were
Speaker 5: going to get into the playoffs, and so there was
Speaker 5: something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 5: just a game where we're gonna roll the ball out
Speaker 5: there and get it over with and go home. And
Speaker 5: he was like, man, this is they're playing for something.
Speaker 5: We 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 zero 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 6: I mean, who knows we can play hypothetical all day?
Speaker 6: Is Macizia?
Speaker 8: Great? But if he's not here, people coming in, what
Speaker 8: their plans are, what the ideas, and what they thought.
Speaker 6: So I gotta win on all that. So you asking me.
Speaker 8: To make an answer to something that I don't have all.
Speaker 6: The information to, that's stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm not that stupid. Yeah, please, somebody to tell you
Speaker 1: something to please Christmas?
Speaker 11: Thank you? How about the spirit of John Inness 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 Voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pash was in his
Speaker 1: second season in three.
Speaker 3: And you endure that long of a season and you're
Speaker 3: calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games.
Speaker 3: The one thing is, Okay, you got a chance to
Speaker 3: get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this
Speaker 3: and get to that draft, get your guy, enjoy the
Speaker 3: next ten years and a couple of Super Bowls like.
Speaker 5: That whole year. You grow up fast in this business
Speaker 5: and you go, wait, they're gonna fire these coaches. Wait
Speaker 5: a minute, they could draft a new quarterback like you know,
Speaker 5: I was just a quarterback of the future two days
Speaker 5: ago that 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 5: I think when you look at their roster, uh when
Speaker 5: they're coming out to us with everything to play for,
Speaker 5: I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking
Speaker 5: at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 5: you know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know,
Speaker 5: if that was an easy sale for coach, but he
Speaker 5: did a good job of framing that for us, and
Speaker 5: and I think he was, you know, benefited from a
Speaker 5: young quarterback who didn't know any better and just was
Speaker 5: gonna go out and play the game.
Speaker 3: 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 past
Speaker 1: six to nothing at halftime, seven to six entering the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass, A.
Speaker 3: Lot closer than many thought it would be, especially with
Speaker 3: a playoffs spot on the line. Of the Vikings win,
Speaker 3: they clinch their division. If they lose and Green Bay wins,
Speaker 3: they're 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 3: McCown takes play, bank, rolls to his right, mccount in trouble, flushdown,
Speaker 3: throws end zone and going down to make the catch
Speaker 3: for a touchdown of Steve Bush. Steve Bush with a
Speaker 3: touchdown puch great improv job by Josh McCown.
Speaker 1: A fourteenth play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed,
Speaker 1: so at seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on
Speaker 1: the Packers broadcast.
Speaker 8: James Rock Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only
Speaker 8: way the Packers can make the playoffs now is if
Speaker 8: Minnesota loses this football game somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: That's the radio call at Lambell, Wayne Lairvie and Larry
Speaker 1: McCarron paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Cardinals are going to.
Speaker 3: Try to recover an onside kick to perhaps give us
Speaker 3: a little bit more time to broadcast.
Speaker 11: Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery.
Speaker 1: And you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there,
Speaker 1: you know, blasting guys and right place, right time. That's
Speaker 1: former Cardinals running back Damian 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 3: So what fifty four to play? Neil Rackers is very
Speaker 3: good with the on side kick.
Speaker 5: We were all standing there, you know, waiting him, because
Speaker 5: that was we knew that that was the next piece.
Speaker 5: You know, you had to get that to keep the
Speaker 5: ball game going. And you know, Neil hits a perfect
Speaker 5: ball and I mean it was just how you drew
Speaker 5: it up, you know. And Damien comes up with it.
Speaker 3: Rackers with the on side kick far aside, and it
Speaker 3: bounce us in the air and the Cardinals have it.
Speaker 3: Of the forty two, Davian Anderson comes up with it
Speaker 3: on the re direction and the Cards have a chance.
Speaker 3: With one's fifty four to play.
Speaker 8: The Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and Larry longehold
Speaker 8: they recovered it for a minute fifty four to go
Speaker 8: in that football game in the desert and the Vikings
Speaker 8: leading seventeen to twelve. Well, I'm gonna shut up about
Speaker 8: this last game.
Speaker 9: Stuff done.
Speaker 8: Maybe they don't a miracle. Keep talking about it.
Speaker 1: You may be jinxing us into something good here.
Speaker 7: Maybe that miracle can happen.
Speaker 6: You get to that onside kick and now all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything can
Speaker 6: happen against anybody anytime, and as we know.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 1: That's long time voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. More
Speaker 1: from him later, much more.
Speaker 6: Saul.
Speaker 1: Cardinals had the ball back one fifty four left sixty
Speaker 1: one yards to go, needing a touchdown with one time
Speaker 1: out after a thirty yard pass interference and a thirteen
Speaker 1: yard completion in Nate Poole. The Cardinals reached the Minnesota
Speaker 1: nine with thirty nine seconds to go.
Speaker 8: Meanwhile, out in the desert in Arizona, getting a little
Speaker 8: bit closer. You know people are aware of this because
Speaker 8: you could hear us in the crowd.
Speaker 1: There is definitely at everyone is out of their seats
Speaker 1: in three different states. When Josh McCown is put on
Speaker 1: his seat, two straight plays quit driving.
Speaker 3: McCown looking like pump back of mccount sacked back at
Speaker 3: the seventeenyrd line of McCown flushed out running near side,
Speaker 3: lost the ball, it's loose, and the Cardinals they have
Speaker 3: of the pound side out of the twenty.
Speaker 5: Eight Emmett has a presence of mind to go, Josh,
Speaker 5: get up, get up, We gotta get the ball. Snap
Speaker 5: we go, Wow, Tom House, we gotta go. So we
Speaker 5: get to play call and then you know, and then
Speaker 5: we you know, fortunately get the Boston.
Speaker 9: You knew that was Josh skill set, like call a
Speaker 9: play that works for him, you know, get him out,
Speaker 9: you know, get him out in some space so he's'll
Speaker 9: have a multitude of options.
Speaker 3: The clock running down under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth
Speaker 3: down in twenty four and.
Speaker 5: It's gonna come down to this.
Speaker 1: They gotta throw it into the end zone.
Speaker 6: This is it.
Speaker 1: Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from the twenty eight.
Speaker 1: The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging in the balance
Speaker 1: once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen.
Speaker 6: There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step
Speaker 6: of the way.
Speaker 1: Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you?
Speaker 8: And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the
Speaker 8: last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty
Speaker 8: five and here we.
Speaker 3: Go eight seconds, seven six five four.
Speaker 6: The count of the ball. This will be the last play.
Speaker 3: The count steps up, rolling far side.
Speaker 10: Just so happened. He got flushed, He got flushed out
Speaker 10: to the right. I said, oh, here he come.
Speaker 3: But coun throwing far side into the end zone and
Speaker 3: the ball it is touchdown.
Speaker 11: Cardinal's big pool and the Cardinals win the game on
Speaker 11: the final pool.
Speaker 1: And the Kings are going home for the new year.
Speaker 10: Josh Man, you know, the whole time he's running, he's rolling,
Speaker 10: he's pointing to the right. I'm inside, I know he's
Speaker 10: about to throw it over there and the defender. He
Speaker 10: had no clue. He had no clue.
Speaker 1: What a great prow by Josh McCown. He threw it
Speaker 1: up early Nate Coole could get it, and he did it.
Speaker 5: I felt like it was just there was a connection
Speaker 5: for us, you know, and so boom, there he is
Speaker 5: and then the ball came out. Uh and he makes
Speaker 5: an unbelievable catch.
Speaker 11: But Cardinals winning on the final play.
Speaker 3: Josh mccoum Fudd's made pole.
Speaker 1: In the back of the end zone of the far side.
Speaker 5: You we thought we won Super Bowl, And I mean,
Speaker 5: it was an unbelievable moment and and it meant a
Speaker 5: lot 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 LFL.
Speaker 6: Don't come back deal and next to y'all get the
Speaker 6: 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 if 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 Natepool
Speaker 1: was not just a celebrity in Arizona. He was the
Speaker 1: toast of the town in Green Bay. And we'll relive
Speaker 1: all that when we come back to this very special
Speaker 1: Cardinals Folktales edition of The Big Red Rage Miracle in
Speaker 1: the Desert presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. It's our
Speaker 1: special Cardinals Folktales edition of The Big Red Rage, presented
Speaker 1: by a Santan forward in Gilbert. This is where we
Speaker 1: go into Cardinals history, go into the archives. Can't spell
Speaker 1: the word history without the word story. And we're talking
Speaker 1: about 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 YNGST 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 5: Looking back, like, you feel bad for the Vikings because
Speaker 5: they were right there on the cusp and to lose
Speaker 5: 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 6: People were just staring longingly on the team bust to
Speaker 6: the airport. Nobody knew what to say, and they were
Speaker 6: just trodden. And you just don't lose like that. Nobody
Speaker 6: loses like that, let alone to Nathan Poole, not Angkwam Bolden.
Speaker 6: So I mean, now as we connect the dots, you know,
Speaker 6: of the entire thing over twenty years, it hits me
Speaker 6: so vividly because of how emotional it was at that moment.
Speaker 11: The season's on the line.
Speaker 6: Two receivers left and right. McCown takes the snap.
Speaker 11: He steps up, he's all by himself, fires into the
Speaker 11: end zone.
Speaker 9: Dods Dods down.
Speaker 11: No, no, the Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of
Speaker 11: the playoffs.
Speaker 6: The previous owner of the team, Red McCombs, hated that call.
Speaker 6: He didn't let me know, but he let others know.
Speaker 6: Some vice presidents here, so you know, I had some
Speaker 6: conversations with some vice presidents and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 6: you don't script moments like that, and that's what came out.
Speaker 6: So I had to deal with that very young in
Speaker 6: my career.
Speaker 3: I understand and where Paul's coming from. You get invested
Speaker 3: in the team. It's your team, and I thought Paul
Speaker 3: handled it perfectly. Some people might say, uh, it's not professional,
Speaker 3: but that's how the fans feeling.
Speaker 5: No, are you kidding?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: That was Paul's reaction.
Speaker 6: One thing I remember about the call is I looked
Speaker 6: to my left where the coaches were, and our linebackers
Speaker 6: coach at that time, Pete Bursage, he could hear me
Speaker 6: through the glass yelling no, no, no, no, And then
Speaker 6: I came down. The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out
Speaker 6: of the playoffs.
Speaker 11: The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Speaker 6: The way he looked at me, it was not anger
Speaker 6: at me. It was one of two things. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: I can't believe what just happened. Oh my god, that
Speaker 6: check that I was going to get for a playoff bonus,
Speaker 6: 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 network,
Speaker 1: and here we go.
Speaker 6: This is if the season for the Packers.
Speaker 8: On the line into the end zone accounts pack.
Speaker 11: Hey Joe.
Speaker 7: Cutting down.
Speaker 11: It is as I'm on Packers by.
Speaker 1: Label, complete dead look from Wayne Larity and Larry McCarron
Speaker 1: reacting to a game they're not even calling, just watching
Speaker 1: from two thousand miles away.
Speaker 8: Patters the biggest amercon on the Packers. Sadly any reps
Speaker 8: the Packers. They finally realized there's any rep I'm a
Speaker 8: final playoff. The regular season for the fight Kings.
Speaker 11: They lose eighteen of seventeen.
Speaker 8: The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're gonna be
Speaker 8: host of the game.
Speaker 1: True Brett Farvan. 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 12: For all that we've been through, we never quit on
Speaker 12: each other. It was a constant, constant reminder of what
Speaker 12: character I've got in this room.
Speaker 1: I've never been afraid to tell you that.
Speaker 6: I love you.
Speaker 5: It was somber, and it's very soberinging. You're just like man,
Speaker 5: back to reality. This is what we're faced with. And
Speaker 5: he was genuine with his words, and you know how
Speaker 5: I cared about guys, and so I think he understood
Speaker 5: in that moment that that was probably, you know, the
Speaker 5: last time or one of the last times he was
Speaker 5: going to address this as a group.
Speaker 1: I've never been afraid to open myself to you because
Speaker 1: you've got my heart.
Speaker 6: You've got my heart.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: It's a roller coaster, really, because you were just as
Speaker 5: high as it gets. You know, for fifteen twenty minutes,
Speaker 5: they're celebrating and enjoying one another, and then you know,
Speaker 5: the business sets in.
Speaker 1: When Nate Poole gave me this ball that he caught.
Speaker 6: What did I tell you last night? I cut this
Speaker 6: man four times. I cut him four times.
Speaker 13: And every time I did, he stood up in my
Speaker 13: office and hugged me and said, Mike, if you need me,
Speaker 13: I'll be back because you're the only man I want
Speaker 13: to play for.
Speaker 1: And that's the way I know that all of you
Speaker 1: feel right now.
Speaker 10: It was real motion on It was like you know,
Speaker 10: your last family hug, you know, and and you know,
Speaker 10: and it hurt because we know, you know, he's a
Speaker 10: player's coach, and he loved the players. He wanted the
Speaker 10: players to do, you know, to excel, to be really great.
Speaker 6: You know what I feel for you, You know what
Speaker 6: I feel for you.
Speaker 13: This was a tremendous, tremendous demonstration of men that not
Speaker 13: only love each other, but believe, believe, believe, you.
Speaker 10: Know, most of us felt like we let Dave down
Speaker 10: because you know, we didn't come up on the winning
Speaker 10: side of a lot of these games to keep him around.
Speaker 1: I'll never ever give up on you.
Speaker 6: I love you. 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 8: Nathan Pool, of all people, how about that, Nathan Pull
Speaker 8: may become a household name in Green Bay.
Speaker 6: It was an amazing play. But you know, like I
Speaker 6: say about Nathan, and I'm not being disparaging here, but
Speaker 6: that was his fifteen minutes of fame. And then of
Speaker 6: course the next week he was given a key to
Speaker 6: the city of Green Bay and he got to go
Speaker 6: to their playoff game, and.
Speaker 1: That is accurate. Nate Poole, who going into the season
Speaker 1: finale had eight catches all season and no touchdowns, was
Speaker 1: now Packer's royalty, to the point where he got a
Speaker 1: call from the mayor of Green Bay.
Speaker 10: So Mayor Schmitz gave me a call and I was like, oh,
Speaker 10: here we go. Stop calling my phone because I'm thinking
Speaker 10: it's a player, and I'm thinking he's gonna call that
Speaker 10: player's gonna call me back and say, man, dude, what
Speaker 10: are you doing?
Speaker 1: Then I got a call right back.
Speaker 10: It was the same number. Okay, hey, how you doing
Speaker 10: this in April?
Speaker 6: And he was like, Hey, Nate, no, this is not
Speaker 6: a joke. This is Mayor Schmidt.
Speaker 10: I love to get you out in a speed talking I.
Speaker 6: Love to get you out to one of the games.
Speaker 6: I said, oh no, I 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. Dave, Mary, Joe,
Speaker 1: Mary Joe, Welcome to the Big Red Rage.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thanks a lot. I was just calling to
Speaker 7: wish Nate a wonderful time in Green Bay and to
Speaker 7: give him a huge thank you. Since the Vikings started
Speaker 7: off six and oh this year, I've been taking a
Speaker 7: lot of grief for getting a lot of grief from
Speaker 7: my friends who are Viking fans, and I would roll
Speaker 7: my eyes and just say, oh, you know, won't you
Speaker 7: ever learn the Vikings will find some way to implode again.
Speaker 7: This year and sweet revenge. It has been a wonderful
Speaker 7: couple of days and I just want to offer a
Speaker 7: great big thank you.
Speaker 3: Hey, Mary Joe, how about taking date out to dinner
Speaker 3: when he gets up there.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to
Speaker 7: go out in Green Bay if that is his desire,
Speaker 7: he will have a lot of people who will take
Speaker 7: good care of him.
Speaker 1: Nate Poole laughed all the way to Green Bay, an
Speaker 1: all expense paid trip in January on the tax Beyar's
Speaker 1: tap as the undrafted receiver from Marshall became a grand
Speaker 1: Marshal of sorts. But don't forget about the other end
Speaker 1: of that touchdown pass QB Josh McCown.
Speaker 5: You know, they fly Nate up to Green Bay and
Speaker 5: they give him the Kidah City or whatever they did,
Speaker 5: and they're sending us. We were getting Christmas cards from
Speaker 5: Green Bay fans that it was their family Christmas card,
Speaker 5: and you know it would you know, scratched out and
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas and thank you for beating the vikings. Go
Speaker 5: Pat go, and loads of Christmas cards mail to the
Speaker 5: house of the Sargento family. Sent the best cheese basket
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 5: Through an airport or whatever, and there will be, you know,
Speaker 5: a disgruntled Vikings fan and hey, you you know you
Speaker 5: owe me, you know type of thing, or it'll be
Speaker 5: a Packers fan that'll be like, thank you for getting
Speaker 5: us in the playoffs that year, you know, we owe you.
Speaker 9: I was at home back in Minneapolis or watching that game,
Speaker 9: and I did not like Nate Poole because I thought
Speaker 9: I had a chance to be the number one pick,
Speaker 9: 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 fitz might have been the number one pick overall
Speaker 1: in the NFL draft.
Speaker 10: Me and Larry had that conversation. Believe me that he
Speaker 10: would have been the number one overall pick. We're talking
Speaker 10: in the receiver room before the meeting about being him
Speaker 10: being the number one pick. As I think back to
Speaker 10: what his sided bonus was, how he didn't do too
Speaker 10: bad at the number three pick, people.
Speaker 5: Said, well, y'all, you know you cost him the number
Speaker 5: one pick, and I go back and go, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't think Coach Green would have I think he
Speaker 5: would have picked Larry. He was gonna pick Larry, and
Speaker 5: it turned out really good for Larry and and ultimately
Speaker 5: for the Arizona Cardinals too. He helped lead that franchise, Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, through a lot of things to become a
Speaker 5: you know, a competitive franchise and you know, to really
Speaker 5: what they are today.
Speaker 3: Walking away from that with mixed emotions of Wow, what
Speaker 3: a way to win a game, but also, oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: there goes the quarterback of the future. There goes he lied.
Speaker 6: 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 Danny 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 9: Then he said, I would have been. That's what he
Speaker 9: told me. He told me I would have been. But
Speaker 9: you know what, it all worked his way out. I
Speaker 9: was able to still get here and play for him.
Speaker 9: I know, we didn't have the success I'd love to
Speaker 9: have for him. You know, he gave me my first
Speaker 9: two jobs I ever had as a ball boy and
Speaker 9: then as a professional athlete, and so I owe him
Speaker 9: a huge debt of gratitude and I'm just so very
Speaker 9: thankful for, you know, the doors he opened for me
Speaker 9: and my family.
Speaker 11: Touchdown Cardinals, they pull and the Cardinals win the game.
Speaker 10: The final part, I bring my heart head to practice
Speaker 10: in the games every day. And I knew, you know,
Speaker 10: that's what it was about as growing up as a youngster,
Speaker 10: that it was about, you know, bringing your hard head
Speaker 10: and working out and just pushing to make the team.
Speaker 3: You know, coaches say run every route as if it's
Speaker 3: your last one. Nate Pool really did it. But it
Speaker 3: was like comical, like he went so hard, so pretty
Speaker 3: cool to see a guy that worked that hard have
Speaker 3: one of the biggest plays of the season, not just
Speaker 3: for the Cardinals but for the entire league.
Speaker 10: I got to tell people, hey, you can only do
Speaker 10: it one play at a time.
Speaker 1: I got you on that play, and needless to say,
Speaker 1: it's the play in Nate Poole's career, one of the
Speaker 1: most dramatic and consequential plays in NFL history, the Cardinals.
Speaker 11: Have knocked the Fighting's out of the playoffs.
Speaker 5: And Nate Poll's a good person. He's a great person
Speaker 5: to be around. And you look back at that and
Speaker 5: that's a special moment for me in my career as well.
Speaker 5: So but it couldn't happen to a better guy. And
Speaker 5: they's good dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who says good dudes finished last?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: In fact, as Dave McGinnis said back then with a
Speaker 1: smile to the media, quote, there were two receivers on
Speaker 1: the field from Marshall that day. They had Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: we had Nathan Poole. So there you have it. Cardinals
Speaker 1: Folk Tales Miracle in the Desert, presented by seventy two
Speaker 1: Soul for producer Jim Mamhundro. I'm Paul Calvic and that's
Speaker 1: the story of how an unknown receiver won that day,
Speaker 1: but a Hall of fame receiver was on his way.
Speaker 3: The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinals history
Speaker 3: and one of the greatest receivers of all time.
Speaker 1: With the third choice in the two thousand and four
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Larry Fitzgerald, wide receiver University.
Speaker 6: Of fifth Curd.
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. Why 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 and ostensibly a franch 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 to this very special Cardinals Folktales edition
Speaker 1: of the Big Red Rage Miracle in the Desert presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford in Gilbert. And we're wrapping up this
Speaker 1: very special Cardinals Folk Tales edition of the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan ford in Gilbert Paul Kelvicy joined
Speaker 1: by Darren Irvan. Darren Irvan covered the game. Miracle in
Speaker 1: the Desert is the title of this Cardinal's Folk Tales
Speaker 1: where we're going to the archives in some great rarely
Speaker 1: heard audio that our 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? You know if.
Speaker 4: I think they end up taking Larry Fitzgerald, because I
Speaker 4: think Denny Green wanted Larry Fitzgerald on his team. You know,
Speaker 4: I remember so vividly in the month leading up to
Speaker 4: the draft. Denny then he wasn't like a lot of
Speaker 4: coaches there were oftentimes when he was.
Speaker 1: He said more.
Speaker 4: Then maybe he should.
Speaker 6: And I remember in those.
Speaker 4: Days, I was covering the team for the East Valley Tribune.
Speaker 4: I had come out to a day in the off
Speaker 4: season sometime in April, and I was the only writer
Speaker 4: here and the only other media member who was showing
Speaker 4: up was brad Cessmett, who was working for one of
Speaker 4: the local stations that day, and he had an interview
Speaker 4: apparently scheduled with Denny Green. And all they did was
Speaker 4: bring Denny Green down to the media area and then
Speaker 4: they just had a camera and they were sitting there
Speaker 4: and they're having it. So as a media member, I'm
Speaker 4: going to listen to the interview and take what I can.
Speaker 6: Get from it.
Speaker 1: Hey, nobody told you you couldn't.
Speaker 4: So Denny Green is talking about and you have to
Speaker 4: remember again the draft with Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning
Speaker 4: and Philip Rivers. Those are all available with the Cardinals
Speaker 4: picking third. And at this point the Cardinals quarterback was
Speaker 4: Josh McCaw probably, and there were questions about Josh and
Speaker 4: whether he was gonna you know, and Denny loved Josh.
Speaker 4: He would talk him up all the time. And at
Speaker 4: one point Denny Green said, we're not going to take
Speaker 4: a quarterback third overall well, as a reporter, I had
Speaker 4: that in this day, this is pre internet, so I
Speaker 4: had a big banner headline the next day. Obviously the
Speaker 4: other paper in town didn't have the story. So the
Speaker 4: next day I came back. There were other writers here.
Speaker 4: Ken Summer showed up, Bob bomb from the Associated Press,
Speaker 4: and they get Denny Green to come down and talk
Speaker 4: and they're trying to get him to say the same
Speaker 4: thing again and he won't do it. And finally Bob
Speaker 4: Bam says to him, kind of half jokingly, we're trying
Speaker 4: to get you to say what you told Darren yesterday.
Speaker 4: And Denny looked at him and he goes, that was yesterday.
Speaker 4: 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 ball 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 4: Oh yeah, And look, it's not like the Cardinals made
Speaker 4: a poor pick by any stretch of the imagination. But
Speaker 4: you do wonder a little bit what, okay, Eli Manning
Speaker 4: went number one and then Robert Gallery went number two.
Speaker 4: But you wonder a little bit if they didn't take
Speaker 4: Fits and they take Ben Roethlisberger or they take Philip Rivers,
Speaker 4: how different does life with the Cardinals?
Speaker 1: You know happen?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 4: The Cardinals make the two thousand and eight Super Bowl
Speaker 4: because they get Kurt Warner, who has his career renaissance
Speaker 4: throwing to Ankwambolden and a very very good Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 4: And the Cardinals don't make the super Bowl unless Larry
Speaker 4: has arguably the greatest performed postseason performance of any wide
Speaker 4: 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 4: All so true, Although Eli wasn't drafted by the Giants,
Speaker 4: he was drafted by the Chargers and they had to
Speaker 4: make the trade for Philip Rivers. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: 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 4: I had no question that it was a force out play.
Speaker 4: And now you have to get feet down and if
Speaker 4: a guy pushes you out of bounds your eye, that
Speaker 4: 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 Cardinal's history, and
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure reliving it, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: our Jim al Mahundro for Darren Urban. I'm Paul Calvic
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