WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Miracle In The Desert 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.640 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.800 Hold ahead, he got jacked. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:12.160 This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:13.000 and Gilbert. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.120 Terry's Gonna score touchdown Slim to the ground by Buddha 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:17.640 Baker Like a torpedo. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.520 He came flying into the back deal. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.200 The Rage is brought to you by santan Ford and 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.360 Gilbert right on the Price right on the corner of 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.840 the Santan two O two Freeway in val Vista. 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And that is why we are gathered here 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.440 today for this very special Cardinals Folktales edition of The 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.920 Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford in Gilbert Miracle 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.640 in the Desert. That is the title of tonight's episode, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.720 as we hit the rewind button and go back into 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.720 Cardinals history, all time anecdotes, as we like to say, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.120 Cardinals folktales where you can't spell the word history without 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.119 the word story. Paul calvic here, Darren Urban was there 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.679 covered the game back in two thousand and three. This 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.280 is the rare game, Darren, where it was best remembered 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.920 for what both teams did not get. The Vikings do 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.920 not get a playoff Berth, the Cardinals did not get 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.560 the first pick in the draft. Talking about this season 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.480 finale two thousand and three. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:02.840 This is true. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.640 I hadn't really thought about it that but but you 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.240 know you going negative doesn't really surprise me that much, Paul. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.120 Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:12.560 the game. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.959 Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got through the 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.120 playoffs because of that result, and they they did feel 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.800 like winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.480 that because he ended up in Green Bay a week 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.520 later at the playoff game. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:24.799 Yes. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.200 Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:29.760 Yes, we're gonna learn. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.040 In fact, you tell us since you where were you, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.800 by the way, for Nate Pool's shining moment? Were you 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.840 still in the press pot? 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.360 In those days, all the reporters would gather in the 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.560 corner of the end zone, and we were down on 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.600 the end of the field that the Cardinals scored upon. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.280 We were just on the other side. So we were 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.000 down there in the between the back line, the back 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.120 of the goal line, in about the ten yard line, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.480 watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly obviously because it was 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.639 on the far sideline the catch, but you could hear 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.760 the crowd explode. I was down there when you know, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.400 Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.080 the call when they were going to the replay. I 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.440 remember that very distinctly because we were on the field 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.720 by then, and it was just it was an amazing 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.800 end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.440 as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.920 to them getting Larry Fitzgerald. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.200 Yeah, there was a lot of change after this game. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.520 Going into the game, though, I mean, what were the 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.000 odds the Cardinals had a chance to really win a 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.840 game when they hadn't won a game in nearly two months, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.800 and the Vikings needed the game to clinch a playoff spot. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.920 Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.040 think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.240 they lost, it didn't look real good for them to 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.280 get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.680 of bad teams to win, and it ended up working 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.960 out that way if they had had lost. But then again, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.280 you know, the Vikings, I'm guessing they were a little overconfident. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.080 I don't know. I remember watching the game from the 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.640 press box thinking to myself, they don't look like they're 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.680 ready to put this team away. The Vikings don't look 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.320 like they're ready to put the Cardinals away. And those 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.360 Cardinal teams were not good, but they did give effort. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.880 And you had a lot of guys out there playing 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.520 for the first time or very inexperienced Josh McCown, Reggie Wells. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.479 I mean, you go down the list, and they just 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.720 didn't give up. Now, they needed some bounces there at 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.240 the end, for sure, but the fact they were even 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.800 in shouting distance of the game never should have happened. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.760 And we're gonna get a full recap here because it 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.159 really is gripping. I mean, the first three quarters of 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.760 the game not so much, but it was seventeen to 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.000 six Vikings with under seven minutes to play. Then just 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.440 after the two minute warning it's a one score game. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.400 You need the on sidekick Neil Rackers, right, he was 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.200 a master at making the ball do different things. He 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.120 had that soccer background, and then things just got really 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.320 crazy from there. I mean, with all due respect to 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.159 a young Dave Pash behind the mic, it's the rare 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.080 game where the truly memorable radio calls came from a 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.240 the losing team and be the team that really benefited 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.839 two time zones away who needed a Cardinals win more 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.240 than the Cardinals did. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.719 Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.240 to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:28.200 top two there, but it was an amazing time all 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.240 the way around, just because of how it ended and 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.120 what it meant and just the memories of that game 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.320 and for Josh mccount and aatepool. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.120 And we're going to hear how it all unfolded in 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.120 real time at the time two thousand and three. Heck, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.839 it was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.880 Santa Colors, right, red, white, and black. So this was 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.479 their own gift, their own parting gift to the home fans. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.640 And when we come back and this very special Cardinals 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.320 Folk Tales edition of The Big Red Rage, we'll hear 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:05.520 it for ourselves. Miracle in the Desert presented by santan Ford. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:11.159 And welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales Edition 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.400 of The Big Red Rage presented by Santanford and Gilbert. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.320 We're in rewind into Cardinals history because remember, you can't 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.640 spell the word history without the word story, and boy 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.520 do we have one. From the final week of the 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.920 regular season two thousand and three, Cardinals were hosting the 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.599 Vikings and the Cardinals had exactly nothing to play for 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.760 beyond the number one pick, which they would secure with 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.680 the loss. The nine and six Vikings came in. Remember 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.479 they had started six and oh that season, but their 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.000 playoff hopes were on the line. They needed a win 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.760 to secure a postseason berth and the week before they 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.120 had already KOed KC forty five to twenty. That was 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.880 a Kansas City team that went thirteen and three in 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.479 two thousand and three. So with that in mind, not 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.479 many gave the Cardinals a chance. But as quarterback of 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.120 the time, Josh McCown would say later, Hey, you've been 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.719 around coach McGinnis. He can make any game feel like 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.560 the Super Bowl. And that would be foreshadowing because coach McGinnis, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.480 who was great with the media, also had a great 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.000 comparison between the two receivers on the field that day 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.040 who were college teammates once upon a time at Marshall. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.880 We'll hear that a little bit later, but the Cardinals 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.400 were talking about Nate Poole thirty six career games in 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.560 the NFL. He managed a total of thirty four career 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.800 catches and two touchdowns, but at the end of his 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.679 brief time in the NFL, only one of those thirty 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.720 four receptions truly mattered. It got him a key to 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.760 a city, It got him a personalized phone call from 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.680 a mayor. It got him a local TV commercial all 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.840 in the city of Green Bay. So with that as 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.120 the background, let's hit that rewind button to Miracle in 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.080 the Desert. It's the final week of two thousand and three, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.200 this season finale that would end the year for two teams. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.560 The count throwing far side into the end zone. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.880 And the ball it is touchdown tortos. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.560 An unbelievable turn of evnch Not here at lambeau Field, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.560 but in the desert, you would. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.960 Have thought we won Super Bowl. I mean, it was 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.600 an unbelievable moment. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.320 The Vikings are going home for the new year. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.520 You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.520 Let alone to Nathan. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.440 Poole, and they pulls a good person to make that play. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:43.400 He deserves that. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.839 Not one of the Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.160 You lose a game and it opens the door for 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:51.000 your worst enemy. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.839 The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:54.680 be host of the game. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.040 It was that if the sun fell out of the sky. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.520 You know, it was a miserable day of existence. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.320 Time that two teams played one game that stop time 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.360 in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or out 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.040 of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or out 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:18.480 of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two, and three? 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.000 All dictated by a Cardinals win that some viewed as 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:24.520 a loss. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.120 I think even the fans were like, man, let's just 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.480 get this season over and get the number one pick 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.040 walk away with the Eli manning. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.720 There was something to play for there. They're you know, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.360 they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.960 He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.840 here he come, be into the angone. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:39.400 The count. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.640 Knock me out of number one pick too. Man, I 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.480 probably been in the first pick of the draft. Man, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.920 they cost me Nate pull Man. I'd never forgive him 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.160 for that. I tell them that all the time. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.400 Nathan poll may become a household name in Green Pay. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.880 This is Mael Schmidtz. I love to get you out 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.360 one of the games. I said, oh no, I would 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:03.120 love to come out. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.600 He was given a key to the city of Green 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.600 Bay and he got to go to their playoff game. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:08.679 I'm sure he. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.080 Will have a lot of opportunities to go out in 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.319 Green Bay if that is his desire. He will have 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.280 a lot of people who will take good care of him. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.400 To the winner goes the Spoils. That's after the Cardinals 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.280 took care of the Vikings. All right, a big win, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.480 but the big winner the Packers welcome into Cardinals Folktales 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.920 Miracle in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.040 we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time anecdotes, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.439 through the recollections and memories of those who lived in 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.560 or in my case, those who covered it. My name 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.960 is Paul Kelvic, Cardinals sideline reporter. We're talking about that 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.440 time when little known Nate Poole got the key to 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.640 a city while his own fan base lamented what it 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:53.640 did not get. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.080 People said, well, y'all, you know you costing the number 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:56.480 one pick. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.000 The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinals history 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.280 and one of the greatest receivers of all time. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.599 Looking back, you feel bad for the Vikings. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.000 Dot damn down. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.319 Oh my god, I can't believe what just happened. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:13.920 The Cardinals have knocked. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:31.640 The Vikings out of the playoffs. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.839 One of the great calls, one of the great thrill 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:33.040 of victory, agony of defeat moments in NFL history, every 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.520 bit as much Shakespearean tragedy as season finale. December twenty eighth, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.840 two thousand and three. Cardinals playing for the number one 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.840 pick with a loss, the Vikings playing for the postseason 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.400 with a win or a Packers loss. Yet none of 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.160 the above happened. Here's former head coach Dave McGinnis and 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.840 quarterback Josh McCown. We gotta win a game and we 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.520 haven't won a game in seven weeks. I mean, we 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.360 need to win a ballgame. You know, there are a 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.120 lot of people I know pulling force. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.800 Obviously. Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room. 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.280 He was very captivating, and that was one of the 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.920 things that he talked about was just the ability to 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.760 knock those guys off. You know, they were coming in, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.120 they had to beat us, and you know they were 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 going to get into the playoffs, and so there was 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.360 something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.319 just a game where we're going to roll the ball 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.200 out there and get it over with and go home. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.480 He was like, man, this is they're playing for something. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:25.840 We can be playing for something too. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.120 In two thousand and three, it was a sixteen game season. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.920 Cardinals entered the final week three and twelve. The Vikings, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.559 after a six and oh start, were nine and six, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.920 coming off a ko of KC the week before a 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.840 forty five to twenty drubbing of a Chiefs team that 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.480 would finish thirteen and three. So all the Vikings had 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.040 to do what everyone expected him to do, polish off 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.720 a reeling Cardinals team with a quarterback making his third 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.160 career start, a coach about to be fired, and the 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.840 NFL's all time leading rusher getting peppered about his own 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.840 future on Christmas Eve. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.880 I mean, who knows we can play hypothetical all day? 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.080 Is Macizia great? 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.319 But if he's not here, people coming in, what their 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:10.959 plans are, what the ideas, and what they thought. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.400 So I gotta win on all that. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.800 So you asking me to make up answer to something 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:15.640 that I don't have all. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.720 The information to, that's stupid. I'm not that stupid. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.679 Yeah, please, somebody tell you something Pleasetmas Eve? 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.320 Thank you. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.840 How about the spirit of John Inness and happiness? 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.920 That's former Cardinals running back and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.760 And hey, no doubt what would make the Red Sea 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.480 jolly and happy? The number one overall pick under their tree. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.400 Here's Voice of the Cardinals Dave Pash was in his 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.320 second season in three. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.160 And you endure that long of a season and you're 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.640 calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.800 the one thing is, okay, you got a chance to 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.720 get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.800 and get to that draft. Get your guy, enjoy the 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.959 next ten years. And a couple sits like. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.640 That whole year. You grow up fast in this business, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.320 and you go, wait, they're gonna fire these coaches. Wait 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.040 a minute, they could draft a new quarterback. Like you know, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.240 I was just a quarterback of the future two days ago. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.440 You know, all these things. You grow really fast. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.400 That's Cardinals could be Josh McCown, the third round pick 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.080 the year before, who earned the final three starts of 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.360 that O three season and tried to channel the confidence 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.160 that his head coach Dave McGinnis showed in him against 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.240 NFC North leading Minnesota. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.440 I think when you look at their roster, uh, when 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.640 they're coming out to us with everything to play for, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.960 I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.120 You know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:44.920 if that was an easy sale for coach, but he 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.320 did a good job of framing that for us. And 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.600 and uh and I think he was, you know, benefited 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.560 from a young quarterback who didn't know any better and 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:52.960 just was gonna go out and play the game. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:15:00.960 It's the Cardinals and Vikings from Tempe Arizona Sun Devil Stadium. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.920 Not a lot of action for the announcers to call 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.960 in a fifty one degree day, a virtual snooze fast. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.240 Six to nothing at halftime, seven to six entering the 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.560 fourth quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.120 Lot closer than many thought it would be, especially with 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.000 a playoffs spot on the line of the Vikings win, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.000 they clinch their division. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.560 If they lose and Green Bay wins, they're. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.440 Out of the playoffs. Then, just over two minutes later, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.800 a forty six yard fuel goal makes it seventeen to 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.480 six Vikings with six forty eight to play, but hang on. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.080 On the first play after the two minute warning. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.120 McCown takes play, bank rolls to his right, mccount in 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.480 trouble flushdown, throws ends on and going down to make 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.720 the catch for a touchdown of Steve Bush. Steve Bush 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.520 with a touchdown catch. Great improv job by Josh McCown. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.640 A fourteen play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.400 so it's seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.400 the Packers broadcast. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:08.080 James Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only way 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.320 the Packers can make the playoffs now is if Minnesota 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.240 loses this football game somehow, some way. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.000 That's the radio call at Lambeau, Wayne Larrvie and Larry 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.880 McCarron paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.440 Green Bay, Cardinals are going to. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.480 Try to recover an onside kick to perhaps give us 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.040 a little bit more time to broadcast. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.480 Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery. And 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.480 you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there, you know, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.280 blasting guys and right place, right time. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.200 That's former Cardinals running back Damien Anderson. And that's the recipe, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:50.680 the mentality for a successful onside kick, because that's exactly 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.760 what the Cardinals needed. Good news. The Cards are just 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.000 picked up one of the best in the business in 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:56.920 Neil Rackers. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.000 So what fifty four to play? Neil Rackers is very 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.800 good with the on side kick. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.920 We were all standing there, you know, waiting because that 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.119 was we knew that that was the next piece. You know, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.560 you had to get that to keep the ball game going. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.480 And you know, Neil hits a perfect ball and I 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.399 mean it was just how you drew it up, you know. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.919 And Damien comes up with it. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.000 Rackers with the on side kick far aside and it 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.359 bounce us in the air and the Cardinals have it. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.520 Of the forty two Davian Anderson comes up with it 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.480 on the redirection and the Cards have a chance. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.080 With one fifty four to play. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.440 The Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and Larry Long 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.439 behold they recovered it for a minute fifty four to 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.679 go in that football game in the desert and the 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.359 Vikings leading seventeen to twelve. Well, I'm going to shut 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:41.560 up about this last game. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:42.160 Stuff done. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.119 Maybe they do a miracle. Keep talking about it. You 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.080 may be jinxing us into something good here. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:48.960 Maybe that miracle can happen. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.200 You get to that onside kick and now all of 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.680 a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything can 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.120 happen against anybody anytime, and as we know, it did. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.680 That's longtime voice of the Viking, Paul Allen. More from 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.320 him later, much more. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:04.080 Saul. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.000 Cardinals had the ball back one fifty four left sixty 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.760 one yards to go, needing a touchdown. With one time out. 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.280 After a thirty yard pass interference and a thirteen yard 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.080 completion in Nate Poole, the Cardinals reached the Minnesota nine 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.120 with thirty nine seconds to go. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.520 Meanwhile, out in the desert in Arizona, getting a little 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.960 bit closer. You know people are aware of this because 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.560 you could hear a thousand in the crowd. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.880 There is definitely at everyone is out of their seats 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.520 in three different states. When Josh McCown is put on 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.840 his seat, two straight plays quit driving. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.800 Of McCown looking let pump thick of account sacked back 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.120 at the seventeenyr line of McCown flushed out running near side, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.879 lost the ball, it's loose, and the Cardinals they have 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:50.840 of the pound side out of the. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.440 Twenty eight Yimmett has a presence of mind to go, Josh, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.800 get up, get up. We gotta get the ball. Snap 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.960 we got wow, Tom House, we gotta go. So we 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.439 get to play call and then you know, and then 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:00.800 we you know, fortually get the boss. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.160 Now you knew that was Josh skill set, Like call 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.800 a play that works for him, you know, get him out, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.160 you know, get him out in some space so he'll 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:10.880 have a multitude of options. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.600 The clock running down, under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.560 down at twenty four, and. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.520 It's gonna come down to this. They gotta throw it 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:18.640 into the end zone. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.080 This is it. Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.840 the twenty eight. The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.400 in the balance once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.440 There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:35.520 Of the way. 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.359 Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you? 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.320 And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.879 last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:47.480 five and here we go. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:53.040 Eight seconds seven six five four. The count with the ball. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.479 This will be the last play. The count steps up, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.000 rolling far side. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.560 Just so happened. He got flushed, He got flushed out 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.240 to the right. I said, oh, here. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.679 He come, the count throwing far side into the end 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.840 zone and the ball it is touchdown. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.600 Cardinals made pool, and the Cardinals win the game on 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.000