1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: The forty nine ers are the forty nine ers, and 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: we all knew that we were gonna have to play very, 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: very well to beat these guys. 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 2: If no one saw it and they just looked at 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: the first three quarters, they were like, man, they probably 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 2: got beat sixty five nothing. You know. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 3: The Cardinals were behind twenty three to nothing midway through 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 3: the third quarter and people were leaving sun Double Stadium. 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: I hung over the fence. 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 4: I was yelling, you're a gun. 11 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: Unmissed the grads come back and the history off this tape. 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 4: You know, you shut us out in the first half, 13 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 4: but we're to come back. 14 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: It didn't matter if we were behind ahead. We just 15 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: felt like we're going to give ourselves a situation to 16 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: win the game if you just believe, stuff can happen. 17 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 5: Six seconds left in this one, here come the Cardinals. 18 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 4: They brought you know, Cover zero and brought blitz and 19 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 4: they did. 20 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: They're coming. Search inside because they're coming. This is what 21 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: it's about. 22 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 4: Right, makes a little swim move and easy throw the 23 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 4: blitz coming. 24 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 6: Lot is coming, Lomax. 25 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 4: He's got a having Bill Walsh pace up and down 26 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 4: the sideline and Joe Montana sitting there rolling his eyes. 27 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 4: It's a pretty cool scene. 28 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, forgive the Cardinals if they celebrated like they won 29 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 7: the Super Bowl. Turns out they knocked off the eventual 30 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 7: Super Bowl champs on that November day in nineteen eighty eight. 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 7: But it wasn't just the one, as in what the 32 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 7: what just happened? It was the how, as in how 33 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 7: the heck did the Cards pull off that epic win, 34 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 7: leaving quite the first impression in your first season in 35 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 7: the az Welcome in everyone to Cardinals Folk Tales When 36 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 7: Arizona Met the Cardiac Cards, presented by seventy two Soul, 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 7: where we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time 38 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 7: anecdotes through the recollections and memories of those who lived 39 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 7: it and those who covered it. My name is Paul Kelvic, 40 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 7: the Cardinals sideline reporter. And not all games are created equal? 41 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 4: Somehow? 42 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 7: What are so outlandish? You never forget? 43 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: Almost every week I hear somebody tell me, Hey, I 44 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: was at that game against the forty nine ers. 45 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 4: I was like, good lord, how many people with that 46 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 4: there must have been? You know, two hundred thousand people there? 47 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 4: Because I've had over two hundred thousand people tell me 48 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 4: they were there. They're gonna start calling we've guts the 49 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 4: cardiac carton over. 50 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 3: Then people are like, well, yeah, these aren't the Simo 51 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 3: Old Cardinals. You know, these are the Phoenix Cardinals. We've 52 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: got something going on here in the valley. I think 53 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 3: people at that time were excited. 54 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 7: Excited, no doubt, until down went the franchise QB with injury, 55 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 7: and then it became no chance. 56 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: Our quarterback gets knocked down, and I was never prepared 57 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: for that one. 58 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 3: If Lomax hadn't gotten hurt, that would have been I 59 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 3: think the pivotal game in what probably would have been 60 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 3: a playoff season. 61 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 2: Had he stayed healthy just ninety percent, everything would have 62 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: changed differently. We would have had this stadium a lot sooner. 63 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 6: After weeks of virtually no comment, Big Red owner Bill 64 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 6: Bidwell finally made the comment that most of us didn't 65 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 6: want to hear. Godwell announced late this morning, but the 66 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 6: Football Cardinals are leaving Saint Louis Port Phoenix, Arizona. They'll 67 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 6: play their eighty eight home games at Sun Devil Stadium 68 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 6: in Tempee. I've en George Saint Louis I've said that 69 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 6: over and over and over, but I'm looking forward to 70 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 6: going to Phoenix. 71 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 5: That's where a football team is. 72 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 7: Head coach Gene Stallings preceded by Cardinals Hall of Famer 73 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 7: Dan Dierdorf, a Saint Louis TV sports anchor at the time, 74 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 7: breaking the news that owner Bill Bidwell would move the 75 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 7: Big Red from Saint Louis to Phoenix for the nineteen 76 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 7: eighty eight season. 77 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: When it first was gonna happen, I was disappointed because 78 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: I knew all the friends and relationships I'd had in 79 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: Saint Louis. You know, kids in school, kids with friendships. 80 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: You know. It was just a different time. 81 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 7: Understandably tough when you're Roy Jetstream Green nine seasons in 82 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 7: Saint Louis, a two time All Pro receiver, Jetstream was 83 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 7: pretty much a made man in the city where he 84 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 7: was revered. 85 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 2: Knowing that it was a business and knowing that we're 86 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: going to move there, it was amazing. I mean, the 87 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: way we were received, it. 88 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: Was really encouraging to be embraced by the city the 89 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: way that we were. 90 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 7: That's four time Pro Bowler Ron Wolfley fullback special teams 91 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 7: as the star quarterback was Neil Lomax, coming off his 92 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 7: second Pro Bowl and getting a fresh start in the 93 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 7: Sonoran Desert. 94 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 4: I remember man getting invited to the Phoenix Open, staying at 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: the Phoenician, been staying over at the Princess Hotel. We 96 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 4: were treated like wealthy. 97 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: You would have cars that would drive by and they 98 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: drive by your house slowly looking into your house. I 99 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: mean almost three or four lined up from time the time. 100 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: People just wanted to see if they could not believe 101 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: they had an NFL team. It was like a Hollywood 102 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: tour that they were driving by, and man, it was. 103 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 4: Bizarre accepting us, appreciating the pro football franchise being there. 104 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 4: It was just a very very exciting time. 105 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 7: Lomax had a big right arm, and he was already 106 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 7: armed with a new nickname, the Grand Cannon. 107 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 5: Jampee. 108 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 6: The state of Arizona welcome an actual football league. 109 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 7: Of course, the only thing more exciting than having a 110 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 7: football team was playing football games. 111 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: The forty nine ers are the forty nine ers, and 112 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: we all knew that we were gonna have to play very, 113 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: very well to beat these guys. 114 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 2: They had some people that went on to be you know, 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: Hall of Family. They had Montana and Young the quarterbacks, 116 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: and both they had running lot. They had Hayley the 117 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 2: defense again that year. They were the number one defense 118 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: when we met. I mean, they had a very very 119 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 2: good football team. 120 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 7: And was all led by Hall of Fame head coach 121 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 7: Bill Walsh. In the eighties, the San Francisco forty nine 122 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 7: Ers were a dynasty, winning four Super Bowls between eighty 123 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 7: one and eighty nine. And here they come to Sun 124 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 7: Devil Stadium to take on a five and four Cardinals 125 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 7: team in Week ten of the eighty eight season. 126 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 4: You're seeing Joe Montana on the sideline because he didn't play. 127 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 4: You know, Steve Young played, so he can forget about that. 128 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 4: Joe Montana either got best or he was hurt. I 129 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 4: don't know the whole story of that. 130 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 7: Well, stories from that time had Bill Walsh saying that 131 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 7: Montana was quote fatigue, to which Joe Montana applied quote 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 7: Where did that come from? Maybe he was tired. I 133 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 7: can't say, but I think maybe he's ready to get 134 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 7: rid of me. As La Times writer Steve Springer concluded, 135 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 7: quote at thirty two, Montana is no longer young. The 136 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 7: question now is can Young be Montana? 137 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 5: Jerry Rice goes in motion young let's say that way now, 138 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 5: sprints to the near side, scrambling around beat Chase did 139 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 5: Couble throws in the hands one touchdown, the catches made 140 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 5: by Brent Jones, a tight end. 141 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 7: That Steve Young touchdown pass made it twenty three to 142 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 7: nothing midway through the third quarter, after the Niners had 143 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 7: led sixteen nothing at the half on a Roger Craig 144 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 7: three yard touchdown run and three field goals. 145 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 2: If no one saw it and they just looked at 146 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: the first three quarters, they were like, man, they probably 147 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: got beat sixty five nothing. 148 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 3: You know, the Cardinals were behind twenty three to nothing 149 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 3: midway through the third quarter, and people were leaving sun 150 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 3: Double Stadium. 151 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 7: That's longtime Arizona Republic Cardinals b writer Ken Summers on 152 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 7: how the fans felt, But how did the players feel? 153 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 7: On that Cardinals sideline? Once again, Roy Green. 154 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: When we met after three quarters, everybody wanted to leave 155 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: the game. They were like, what is this supposed to 156 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: be all excited about? 157 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 4: We're terrible. I mean, what the hell, what are we doing? 158 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 4: Our office was pretty good. That's the memory. I have 159 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 4: a halftime going twenty three to nothing. I mean, this 160 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 4: ain't happening. We're gonna kick it in gear here and 161 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 4: we did. 162 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 7: Yep, the Cardinals did just that. In fact, it was 163 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 7: those two voices, Lomac's to Green on a thirty five 164 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 7: yard strike back. 165 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 5: To throw his Lomax looking far side one on what 166 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 5: coverage the balls Greens gotta touchdown. 167 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 2: Kind of like a momentum thing, and you know, we 168 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 2: needed it. And again there's some things that happened prior 169 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 2: to that. We had to go for a fourth down. 170 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 2: I remember the play we called wham, which means that 171 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: wolf goes in motion and comes down and he generally 172 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 2: hits a linebacker or a nose tackle hit. But for 173 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: a Wolf teammate, the guy that's over him and the 174 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: guy he needs to get going, all three get hit. 175 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 2: So he just got a White then Tyler left side 176 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 2: and we got the first down. 177 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 7: Twenty three seven nine Ers then became twenty three to 178 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 7: ten with ten point fifty one left in the fourth 179 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 7: quarter after an l del Greco twenty four yard field goal, 180 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 7: Cardinals were still down thirteen. As the game tick towards 181 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 7: the two minute warning. 182 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 5: Two twenty five left, the Cardinals have one time out left, 183 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 5: Nova check Jones, Green split to the top of the 184 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 5: field and Smith to the bottom. 185 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 2: It didn't matter if we were behind ahead we just 186 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: felt like we're going to give ourselves a situation to 187 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 2: win the game. 188 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 5: From the shotgun barrel, standing alongside Lomax asking for some quiet, 189 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 5: and he gets it. Green comes in motion, Pivots goes 190 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 5: to the top of the field, snapped the Lomax, Lomax 191 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 5: looking still looking throwing a. 192 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 3: Hands on touts down, touts down. 193 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 5: I quick catch by Ronnie Jones. 194 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 7: A five yard touchdown pass from Lomax hookie Ernie Jones 195 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 7: made it twenty three seventeen Niners with two nineteen to go. 196 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was nice when we actually scored a touchdown. 197 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: But you can only do your job one play at 198 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: a time, and that's what we did. 199 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: EJ. He dies for the guy he steps up before 200 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: he makes the first down. 201 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 7: That guy was Steve Young, a true running quarterback who, 202 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 7: on third and four from the Niners twenty one with 203 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 7: less than two minutes to play, made a mad dash 204 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 7: for the sticks, but Cardinals linebacker E J. Junior chase 205 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 7: Young out of bounds, forcing a punt barely. 206 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 4: You look at that thing close. That was really tight, 207 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 4: like within what three or four inches? Now he makes 208 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 4: that game over, so obviously a huge play for our defense. 209 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 4: To make that stop. 210 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 7: After the game, e J. Junior said he was exhausted 211 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 7: and he joked that he couldn't take any more games 212 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 7: like this or that'd ended up in the hospital like 213 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 7: Mike Dicka with heart problems. Because the Cardinals were still 214 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 7: down twenty three seventeen bought now they had possession at 215 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 7: their own thirty four with one twenty seven left and 216 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 7: no timeouts. 217 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 2: Ernie had a lot of ability. He was very fortunate 218 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: also because he got me and JT most of the 219 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: time with all the covers YEP. 220 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 7: The rookie nicknamed Indiana Jones because he played college ball 221 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 7: at Indiana, had a fifteen yard catch early in the 222 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 7: drive and then on third and two from the niners 223 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 7: thirty four. 224 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 5: Shot gun, he sideline. 225 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 7: Ernie Jones m time to tack. They'll dump it on 226 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 7: the bound eighteen second Erne. 227 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: Jones picked another critical catch. 228 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 6: Quickly Womack jumped out on the ground. Second Womack got 229 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 6: the puck, got the only white cut. 230 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 7: Cardinals down six, was six seconds to play at the 231 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 7: San Francisco nine yard line. 232 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 2: They came in. They called the time out. So when 233 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: they called the time out, I saw the front they 234 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 2: were in and I knew they were coming. So when 235 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: we came back, and you can see it in that 236 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 2: tape if you go look at the tape, i had 237 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 2: my helmet off and I'm talking to Lomax and I'm 238 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 2: talking to the line. I'm talking to Earl Ferrell. They're coming. 239 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 2: Search inside Earl because they're coming. 240 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: It was a cover zero being played by the forty 241 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: nine Ers. They were bringing everybody huns over the wall. 242 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 4: Here come the Cardinals. J T. 243 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 5: Smith to the near side, Roy Green, Ernie Jones, j 244 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 5: Nova Check split out from the shotgunners, Lomax. 245 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: JT and I gonna be on the same side. JT's 246 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: gonna run his slint. I'm running the faith. This is 247 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: what it's about. 248 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 4: Six seconds left in this one. 249 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 5: Lomax taking his time. 250 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 4: They're moving around. 251 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 5: The bled's coming. 252 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 4: Lot is coming. 253 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 5: Lomax rolls a Green. 254 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 7: He's got up hot st up put stop potix. 255 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's like a little towel. He saw us 256 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 2: all jumping and JT tried to jump. You know, we 257 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 2: were so tired for we couldn't get about that high. 258 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: The forty nine Ers game. 259 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 4: Was a great just illustration of offensively what we can 260 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 4: do you know, you shut us out in the first half, 261 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 4: but we're to come back. 262 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 7: A seven play, sixty six yard game winning drive, but 263 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 7: not until the extra point, which was not an absolute 264 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 7: because in the Cardinals win a week earlier against Dallas, 265 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 7: al del Greco missed a pat kick late and admitted 266 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 7: after the game quote, I was thinking about the one 267 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 7: I missed. No worries. Al del Greco nailed it. Cardiac 268 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 7: Cards scored twenty four unanswered and beat the vaunted Niners 269 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 7: twenty four twenty three. 270 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 2: God. 271 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 3: Man, people are like, well, yeah, these aren't the same 272 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: old Cardinals. You know, these are the Phoenix Cardinals, and 273 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 3: you know we've got something going on here in the valley. 274 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: I think people at that time worked. 275 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: That's what it's about, man, You know, from making a play, 276 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: not only that you make it and you're so happy 277 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 2: about yourself, it's those guys. Man. We gave of ourselves 278 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,199 Speaker 2: so that we could win a game and it was Man, 279 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 2: it just doesn't get any better than that. 280 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: It just doesn't. 281 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 3: If Momax hadn't gotten hurt, that would have been I 282 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 3: think the pivotal game and what probably would have been 283 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: a playoff. 284 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 7: Season because the Cardinals not only beat the Niners week ten. 285 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 7: They won the next week against the Giants to go 286 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 7: seven and four. But the big loss in eighty eight 287 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 7: wasn't on the scoreboard. It was a quarterback. 288 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: Our quarterback gets knocked down, and I was never prepared 289 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 2: for that. 290 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: He was like having an offensive coordinator at the quarterback 291 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: position photographic memory. I mean a guy that honestly was 292 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: a savant when it came to the game of football. 293 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: So he had the brain and he had the arm. 294 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: Well you kind of saw what happened. 295 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: You know, we lost the next five games, lost an 296 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: opportunity to get in the playoffs, and it was always 297 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: if if. 298 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 4: You know, it's unfortunate that my injury was so serious 299 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: that I had to retire. 300 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 7: And it wasn't the knee injury suffered in the Giants game, 301 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 7: but the nagging hip condition that had bothered Lomax four years. 302 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 4: All of us really had no idea how problematic and 303 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 4: how serious my hip was. Went to see a bunch 304 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 4: of orthopedic specialists that your cartilage is totally gone. You 305 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 4: got bone on bone like Man Boone on bone like what. 306 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: Neil was reaching a zenith of his career at that 307 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: point in time. If you ask me, and if he 308 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: would have stayed healthy, I think we would have been 309 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: a playoff team for the next couple of years. 310 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 7: Instead, Lomax ever played again. The knee injury knocked him 311 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 7: out of the eighty eight season. His hip ended his career. 312 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 7: The Cardinals missed the playoffs, but ushered in the Arizona 313 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 7: chapter of The Cardiac Cards for Green and Lomax. The 314 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 7: memories that Niners win are still strong today. In fact, 315 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 7: fans won't let them forget well. 316 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: I think there was a million people there, because almost 317 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 2: every week I hear somebody till hey. I was at 318 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 2: that game against the forty nine Ers. I was like, 319 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 2: good lord, how many people were there? 320 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 4: How did Bill Walsh pace up and down the sideline? 321 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 4: And Joe Montana sitting there rolling his eyes was pretty cool. 322 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 7: Scene, especially when the forty nine Ers went on to 323 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 7: win the Super Bowl that nineteen eighty eight season and 324 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 7: the next season. 325 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 4: And there you have it. 326 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 7: Cardinals Spoke Tales presented by seventy two sold When Arizona 327 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 7: met the Cardiac Cards special thanks to executive producer Jim 328 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 7: Almhandro associate producer Cody Fincher. My name is Paul Kel 329 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 7: and we'll leave the last word to Neil Lomas, who 330 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 7: remains impressed to this day with one of the greatest 331 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 7: comebacks in franchise history. 332 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 4: I haven't seen the game in a long, long, long time. 333 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 4: Someone from YouTube brought it up about ten years ago 334 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 4: at some function I was at, and you know, I 335 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 4: was kind of getting goosebumps and kind of like, damn, man, 336 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 4: I'm a good comeback.