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Speaker 1: worse playoff team than what Arizona looks like. When you're

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Speaker 1: when you go out there and you play well and

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Speaker 1: super goal. Welcome to Cardinals Folk Tales snow Day to

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Speaker 1: depth into Cardinal's history, all time anecdotes through the recollections

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Speaker 1: those who covered it. My name is Paul KELVC Cardinals

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter. I ruined a pair of shoes on the

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Speaker 1: New England sideline that December day. But if that's what

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Speaker 1: it took for the Cardinals to play into February, it

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Speaker 1: was well worth it. Super Bowl forty three, here we come.

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Speaker 1: Appreciated Chris, you know, forgiving us that that sound bite,

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Speaker 1: biggest sporting event in the world, the Super Bowl from Tampa, Florida. See,

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Speaker 1: that's why we're talking about this New England Snow Game

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Speaker 1: it that lopside and loss resulted in some of the

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Speaker 1: there's moments or games that make you stop and reflect on, Okay,

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Speaker 1: And without a doubt, that run of games in that

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Speaker 1: the two thousand and eight Cardinals had already become NFC

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Speaker 1: And there was euphoria in the air. Rockers comarty my

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Speaker 1: and that's all the Cardinals needed to hear to galvanize

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Speaker 1: what was building in that Cardinals locker room, punctuated by

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Speaker 1: It's definitely an interesting change of pace to see the

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Speaker 1: starting with Chris Collinsworth, had really reached both of them,

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Speaker 1: that tr advantage? Well, it's tough, you know. It's hard

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Speaker 1: can use it and it's helped us. I really feel

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Speaker 1: it feels even better when you go out there and

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Speaker 1: We're good. We're good. Richard good we're good. I just

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Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals, the NFC champion Arizona Cardinals right

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Speaker 1: here at the Super Bowl joining us here on our

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Speaker 1: one finale snow Day to Tampa Bay, presented by Sage

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Speaker 1: for producer Jim Almahundra. I'm Paul Calveson. In hindsight, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals didn't need that New England game in the standings.

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Speaker 1: They definitely didn't want to play that game in the poll.

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Speaker 1: But considering the Cardinals didn't lose again and sold this

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, that New England loss proved to be exactly

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Speaker 1: what the Cardinals needed, and memories from that two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight Super Bowl season run deep, like sixty four

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Speaker 1: yards deep from arguably the greatest Cardinal of all time,

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Speaker 1: Warner to pass with time buyers over the middle of

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Speaker 1: fits caught at the forty five day business was forty thirty.

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Speaker 1: Good Bye Cardinals, way put down Whary Fitzgerald