WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Miracle In The Desert 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.400 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:05.200 Hold ahead. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.560 He got jacked. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.920 This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:12.760 and Gilbert. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.880 Terry's Gonna score touchdown Slim to the ground by Buddha 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.840 Baker Like a torpedo. He came flying into the backfield. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:22.120 The Rage. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.040 It's brought to you by santan Ford and Gilbert right 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.840 on the Price, right on the corner of the Santan 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.879 two to two Freeway in val Vista, Seek your tickets 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.560 to Great Seats and by Arizona Cardinals Podcast. Visit Azycardinals 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.600 dot Com, Slash podcast, a. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.160 Red Seats, Rising. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:48.880 Up Jumper, your Rising Vision Flurry Rage, Take it Ober. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.520 Here's Paul CALVICI. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:51.160 I'm ready. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.080 I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.360 And Darren Urban, I'll bolt. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:02.880 This Urban kid fre You know, as much as I 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:09.080 despised Shakespeare in college as an English undergrad, I love 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:15.280 a good Shakespearean tragedy in football, especially when it happens 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.120 to the opponent. And that is why we are gathered 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.640 here today for this very special Cardinals Folktales edition of 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.040 The Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford in Gilbert 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.920 Miracle in the Desert. That is the title of tonight's episode, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.040 as we hit the rewind button and go back into 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.039 Cardinals history, all time anecdotes, as we like to say, 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.440 Cardinals folktales where you can't spell the word history without 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.440 the word story. Paul Calvic here, Darren Urban was there 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.000 covered the game back in two thousand and three. This 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.600 is the rare game, Darren, where it was best remembered 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.240 for what both teams did not get. The Vikings do 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.240 not get a playoff Berth, the Cardinals did not get 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.800 the first pick in the draft. Talking about this season 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.800 and Alley two thousand and three. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.120 This is true. I hadn't really thought about it that 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.840 but but you know you, going negative doesn't really surprise 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:08.560 me that much, Paul. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.440 Look, the real winner was a team that wasn't in 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:12.880 the game. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.280 Yes, that's true that Green Bay Packers got through the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.440 playoffs because of that result, and they they did feel 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.120 like winners that day. And Nate Poole can attest to 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:23.799 that because he ended up in Green Bay a week 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:24.840 later at the playoff game. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.119 Yes. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.280 Absolutely, it's by far the highlight of Nate Poole's career. Yes, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.600 we're gonna learn. In fact, you tell us since you 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.880 where were you, by the way, for Nate Pool's shining moment? 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.079 Were you still in the press. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.360 Pot those in those days, all the reporters would gather 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.520 in the corner of the end zone, and we were 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.959 down on the end of the field that the Cardinals 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 scored upon. We were just on the other side. So 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.560 we were down there in the between the back line, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.680 the back of the goal line, in about the ten 0:02:54.760 --> 0:03:00.680 yard line, watching this unfold. Couldn't see exactly because it 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.800 was on the far sideline the catch, but you could 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.080 hear the crowd explode. I was down there when you know, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.720 Josh McCown was pleading to the official to give them 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.400 the call when they were going to the replay. I 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.760 remember that very distinctly because we were on the field 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.040 by then and it was just it was an amazing 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.120 end to what turned out to be Dave McGinnis's career 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.760 as the head coach, and obviously it was a springboard 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.280 to them getting Larry Fitzgerald. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.520 Yeah, there was a lot of change after this game. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.840 Going into the game, though, I mean, what were the 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.320 odds the Cardinals had a chance to really win a 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.160 game when they hadn't won a game in nearly two months, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.080 and the Vikings needed the game to clinch a playoff spot. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.240 Well, the funny thing is is, not only did anybody 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.360 think the Cardinals really had a chance, but even if 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.560 they lost, it didn't look real good for them to 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.600 get the number one overall pick. They needed a couple 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.000 of bad teams to win, and it ended up working 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.280 out that way if they had had lost. But then again, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.400 you know, the vice Kings came in. I'm guessing they 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.560 were a little overconfident. I don't know. I remember watching 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.360 the game from the press box thinking to myself, they 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.200 don't look like they're ready to put this team away. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.720 The Vikings don't look like they're ready to put the 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.640 Cardinals away. And those Cardinal teams were not good, but 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.039 they did give effort. And you had a lot of 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.840 guys out there playing for the first time or very 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.279 inexperienced Josh McCown, Reggie Wells. I mean, you go down 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.840 the list, and they just didn't give up. Now, they 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.159 needed some bounces there at the end, for sure, but 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.960 the fact they were even in shouting distance of the 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.120 game never should have happened. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.080 And we're gonna get a full recap here because it 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.479 really is gripping. I mean, the first three quarters of 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.080 the game not so much, but it was seventeen to 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.320 six Vikings with under seven minutes to play. Then just 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.760 after the two minute warning it's a one score game. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.720 You need the on sidekick Neil Rackers, right, he was 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.520 a master at making the ball do different things. He 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.440 had that soccer background, and then things just got really 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.640 crazy from there. I mean, with all due respect to 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.479 a young Dave Pash behind the mic, it's the rare 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.400 game where the truly memorable radio calls came from a 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.560 the losing team and be the team that really benefited 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.159 two time zones away who needed a Cardinals win more 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.560 than the Cardinals did. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.040 Yeah, there's definitely some memorable calls. With all due respect 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.560 to Dave, I don't know if he ranks in the 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.520 top two there, but it was an amazing time all 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.560 the way around, just because of how it ended and 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.440 what it meant and just the memories of that game 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.640 and for Josh mccount and aatepool. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.760 And we're gonna hear how it all unfolded in real 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.560 time at the time two thousand and three. Heck, it 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.560 was a holiday season and the Cardinals rock team Santa Colors, right, red, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.120 white and black. So this was their own gift, their 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.760 own parting gift to the home fans. And when we 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.880 come back and this very special Cardinals Folk Tales edition 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.520 of the Big Red Rage, we'll hear it for ourselves, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.640 Miracle in the Desert presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.280 And welcome back into our special Cardinals Folk Tales edition 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.680 of The Big Red Rage, resented by Santanford in Gilbert. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.200 We're hit in rewind into Cardinals history because remember, you 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.400 can't spell the word history without the word story, and 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.560 boy do we have one. From the final week of 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:28.000 the regular season two thousand and three, Cardinals were hosting 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.640 the Vikings and the Cardinals had exactly nothing to play 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.680 for beyond the number one pick, which they would secure 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.840 with a loss. The ninety six Vikings came in. Remember 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.640 they had started six and oh that season, but their 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.159 playoff hopes were on the line. They needed a win 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.920 to secure a postseason berth and the week before they 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.240 had already KOed KC forty five to twenty. That was 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.039 a Kansas City team that went thirteen and three in 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.640 two thousand and three. So with that in mind, not 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.600 many gave the Cardinals a chance. But as quarterback of 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.280 the time, Josh McCown would say, later, Hey, you've been 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.839 around coach McGuinness. He can make any game feel like 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.680 the Super Bowl. And that would be foreshadowing because coach McGinnis, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.600 who was great with the medium, also had a great 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.120 comparison between the two receivers on the field that day 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.200 who were college teammates once upon a time at Marshall. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.040 We'll hear that a little bit later, but the Cardinals 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.520 were talking about Nate Poole thirty six career games in 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.680 the NFL. He managed a total of thirty four career 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.000 catches and two touchdowns, but at the end of his 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.800 brief time in the NFL, only one of those thirty 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.880 four receptions truly mattered. It got him a key to 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.880 a city, It got him a personalized phone call from 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.840 a mayor. It got him a local TV commercial all 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.000 in the city of Green Bay. So with that as 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.240 the background, let's hit that rewind button to Miracle in 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.240 the Desert. It's the final week of two thousand and three, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.000 this season finale that would end the year for two teams. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.640 The count throwing far side into the end zone and 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:18.480 the ball. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.400 Is touchdown Turtinals. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.680 An unbelievable turn of events. Not here at lambeau Field, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.760 but in the desert, you would. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.120 Have thought we won Super Bowl. I mean, it was 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.760 an unbelievable moment. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.440 The Vikings are going home for the new year. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.679 You just don't lose like that. Nobody loses like that, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.040 Let alone to Nathan Poole. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.560 And they pulls a good person to make that play. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:42.640 He deserves it. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.000 Not one other Minnesota Vikings are even moving right now. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.320 You lose a game and it opens the door for 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:50.160 your worst enemy. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.959 The Packers not only make the playoffs, they're going to 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:53.800 be host of the game. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.160 It was as if the sun fell out of the sky. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.199 You know, it was miserable day of existence. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:04.080 That time that two teams played one game, that stop 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:09.280 time in three cities was a Cardinals receiver in or 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.800 out of bounds? Were the Vikings and Packers in or 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.000 out of the playoffs? Who would be drafting one, two, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.800 and three? All dictated by a Cardinals win that some 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.680 viewed as a loss. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.200 I think we've ben The fans were like now, let's 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.360 just get this season over and get the number one 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.200 pick walk away with the Eli manning. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.880 There was something to play for there there. You know 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.559 they're playing for something. We can be playing for something too. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.120 He got flushed out to the right. I said, oh, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.520 here he come, being to. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:38.920 The Angelic County. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:46.880 Knocked me out at number one pick too. Man, I've 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.880 probably been the first pick of the draft. Man, they 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.199 cost me, Nate poll Man. I'd never forgive him for that. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:52.240 I tell them that all the time. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.040 Nathan Paul may become a household. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:56.520 Name in Green Bay. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.080 This is Mayle Schmidt. I love to get you out 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.240 to one of the games. I said, oh no, I 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.199 would love to come out. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.720 He was given a key to the city of Green 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.720 Bay and he got to go to their playoff game. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.679 I'm sure he will have a lot of opportunities to 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.040 go out in Green Bay if that is his desire. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.600 He will have a lot of people who will take 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.360 good care of him. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.480 To the winner goes the Spoils. That's after the Cardinals 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.400 took care of the Vikings. All right, a big win, 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.600 but the big winner the Packers welcome into Cardinals Folktales 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.000 Miracle in the Desert presented by seventy two Souls, where 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.160 we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time anecdotes 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.559 through the recollections and memories of those who lived in 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.679 or in my case, those who covered it. My name 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.040 is Paul Kelvic, Cardinals sideline reporter. We're talking about that 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.559 time when little known Nate Poole got the key to 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.679 a city. While his own fan base lamented what it 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.719 did not get. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.920 People said, well, y'all, you know you cost it the 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:55.560 number one pick. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.280 The consolation was probably the greatest player in Cardinal's history 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.360 and one of the greatest receivers of all time. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.160 Looking back, like you feel bad for the Vikings. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.160 Got down down. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.439 Oh my god, I can't believe what just happened. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.319 The Cardinals have knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.000 One of the great calls, one of the great thrill 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:32.160 of victory, agony of defeat moments in NFL history, every 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.640 bit as much Shakespearean tragedy as season finale. December twenty eighth, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.959 two thousand and three. Cardinals playing for the number one 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.920 pick with a loss, the Vikings playing for the postseason 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.520 with a win or a Packers loss. Yet none of 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.240 the above happened. Here's former head coach Dave McGinnis and 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.840 quarterback Josh McCown. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.400 We gotta win a game and we haven't won a 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.240 game in seven weeks. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:57.920 I mean, we need to win a ballgame. You know, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.840 there are a lot of people I know pulling. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:00.720 Obviously. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.040 Coach McGinnis was fantastic in front of the room. He 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.680 was very captivating, and that was one of the things 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.320 that he talked about was just the ability to knock 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.839 those guys off. You know that they were coming in, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.240 they had to beat us, and you know they were 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.360 going to get into the playoffs, and so there was 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.480 something to play for there there. You know, it wasn't 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.600 just a game where we're gonna roll the ball out 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.520 there and get it over with and go home. He 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.679 was like, man, this is they're playing for something. We 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.880 can be playing for something too. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.199 In two thousand and three, it was a sixteen game season. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.040 Cardinals entered the final week three and twelve. The Vikings, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.640 after a six and oho start, were nine and six, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.000 coming off a ko of KC the week before a 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.959 forty five to twenty drubbing of a Chiefs team that 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.600 would finish thirteen and three. So all the Vikings had 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.079 to do what everyone expected him to do, polish off 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.840 a reeling Cardinals team with a quarterback making his third 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.280 career start, a coach about to be fired, and the 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.000 NFL's all time leading rusher getting peppered about his own 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:00.920 future on Christmas Eve. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.960 I mean, who knows? We can play hypothetical all day? 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.040 Is Maczia great? But if he's not here, people coming in, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.120 what their plans are, what their ideas, and what they thought. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.439 So I gotta win on all that. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.920 So you asking me to make up answer to something 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.280 that I don't have all the information to, that's stupid. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.600 I'm not that stupid. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.160 Yeah, please, somebody changing. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:20.520 Something to please? 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:22.280 Thank you. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.880 How about the spirit of Jollyness and happiness. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.040 That's former Cardinals running back and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.840 And hey, no doubt what would make the Red Sea 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.480 jolly and happy? The number one overall pick under their tree. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.400 Here's the voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pash was in 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.160 his second season three. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.240 And you endure that long of a season and you're 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.720 calling games for a team that's losing a lot of games. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.920 The one thing is, okay, you got a chance to 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.839 get a franchise changing quarterback. Let's just get through this 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.880 and get to that draft. Get your guy, enjoy the 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.120 next ten years and a couple of Super Bowls that 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:00.719 whole year. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.319 You grow up fast in this business and you go, wait, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.360 they're gonna fire these coaches. Wait a minute, they could 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.839 draft a new quarterback, like, you know, I was just 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.400 a quarterback of the future two days ago. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.520 That You know, all these things, you grow really fast. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.520 That's Cardinals could be Josh McCown, the third round pick 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.200 the year before, who earned the final three starts of 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.440 that O three season and tried to channel the confidence 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.320 that his head coach Dave McGinnis showed in him against 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.320 NFC North leading Minnesota. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.560 I think when you look at their roster U when 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.720 they're coming out to us with everything to play for, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.080 I think it was a tall task. Uh So looking 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.600 at that going yeah, we're gonna beat the Minnesota Vikings. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.160 You know, realistically, I don't know if that was you know, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.040 if that was an easy sale for coach, but he 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.800 did a good job of framing that for us. And 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.880 and and I think he was, you know, benefited from 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.840 a young quarterback who didn't know any better and just 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.080 was gonna go out and play the game. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.160 It's the Cardinals and Vikings from Tempe Arizona Sun Devil Stadium. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.040 Not a lot of action for the announcers to call 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.040 in a fifty one degree day, a virtual snooze fest 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.680 six ze at halftime, seven to six entering the fourth 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.920 quarter when Randy Moss scores on a seven yard pass. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.120 A lot closer than many thought it would be, especially 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.080 with a playoff spot on the line of the Vikings win, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.160 they clinched their division. If they lose and Green Bay wins, 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.600 they're out of the playoffs. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.960 Then, just over two minutes later, a forty six yard 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.320 fuel goal makes it seventeen to six Vikings with six 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.160 forty eight to play, but hang on. On the first 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.160 play after the two minute warning. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:38.320 Mccount takes play, bank rolls to his right, mccount in trouble, flushdown, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.000 throws end zone and going down to make the catch 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.080 for a touchdown of Steve Bush. Steve Bush with a 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.600 touchdown catch. Great improv job by Josh McCown. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.800 A fourteen play touchdown drive bought. The two point conversion failed, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.520 so at seventeen to twelve Vikings, a score echoed on 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.560 the Packers broadcast. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:07.200 Game Minnesota leading seventeen to twelve. Remember, the only way 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.400 the Packers can make the playoffs now is if Minnesota 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.360 loses this football game somehow, some way. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.160 That's the radio call at Lambell, Wayne Larrvie and Larry 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:24.000 McCarron paying close attention nearly two thousand miles away in 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.440 Green Bay, Cardinals are. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.280 Going to try to recover an onside kick to perhaps 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.160 give us a little bit more time to broadcast. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.200 Luckily, that day I wasn't demolition, I was recovery. And 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.560 you know, Josh Kobe and company went in there, you know, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.400 blasting guys and right place, right time. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.280 That's former Cardinals running back Damien Anderson. And that's the recipe, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.800 the mentality for a successful onside kick, because that's exactly 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.880 what the Cardinals needed. Good news, the Cards are just 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.120 picked up one of the best in the business in 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:56.000 Neil Rackers. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.080 So on fifty four to play. Neil Rackers is very 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.920 good on side kick. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.000 We were all standing there, you know, waiting him because 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.920 that was we knew that that was the next piece. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:06.920 You know, you had to get that to keep the 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.200 ball game going. And you know, Neil hits a perfect ball, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.199 and I mean it was just how you drew it up, 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.000 you know. And Damien comes up with it. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.080 Rackers are the on side kick far aside and it 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.440 bounce us in the air. Hey, the Cardinals have it. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.240 Of the forty two. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.520 Davian Anderson comes up with it on the re direction 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.720 and the Cards have a chance. With one fifty four 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:27.200 to play. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.600 The Arizona Cardinals tried an onside kick and Larry Loan 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.520 tohold they recovered it with a minute fifty four to 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.760 go in that football game in the desert and the 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.879 Vikings leading seventeen to twelve. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.680 Well, I'm going to shut up about this last game. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.280 Stuff done. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.080 Maybe they don't have a miracle. Keep talking about it. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.160 You may be jinxing us into something good here. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.040 Maybe that miracle can't happen. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.280 You get to that on side kick, and now all 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.520 of a sudden, all bets are off. I mean, anything 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.200 can happen against anybody anytime, and as we know, it did. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.840 That's longtime voice of the Vikings Paul Out. More from 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.840 him later, much more soul Cardinals had the ball back 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.720 one fifty four left sixty one yards to go, needing 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.240 a touchdown. With one time out. After a thirty yard 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.679 pass interference and a thirteen yard completion in Nate Pool, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.919 the Cardinals reached the Minnesota nine with thirty nine seconds 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:20.159 to go. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.399 I meanwhile out in the desert in Arizona, getting a 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:24.320 little bit closer. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.440 You know people are aware of this because you could 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:28.680 hear a thousand in the crowd. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.520 There is definitely everyone is out of their seats in 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.399 three different states. When Josh McCown is put on his seat, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.600 two straight plays quit drop of McCown looking. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.159 Left, hump back, and a pound sacked back at the 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.880 seventeen yyline. McCown flushed out running near side, lost the ball, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.760 it's loose, and the Cardinals able the pound sign up 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:50.359 of the twenty eight. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.840 Himmitt has a presence of mind to go, Josh, get up, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.280 get up. We gotta get the ball. Snap we got well, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.640 Tom House, we gotta go. So we get to play 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.960 call and then you know, and then we you know, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:18:59.840 fortunately get the bolls. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.399 You knew that was josh skill set, Like call a 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.880 play that works for him, you know, get him out, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.280 you know, get him out in some space so he'll 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:09.560 have a multitude of options. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.720 The clock running down under fifteen seconds left. It's fourth 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.040 down at twenty four and it's. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:15.760 Gonna come down to this. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.080 They gotta throw it into. 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.560 The end zone. This is it. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.960 Fourth down, fourth and twenty five from the twenty eight. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.680 The Packers and Vikings playoff hopes hanging in the balance 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.520 once again. Voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:34.200 There was worry and anxiety and teeth gnashing every step 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:34.640 of the way. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.440 Hey Green Bay, you still watching, you bet you? 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.440 And they're winding it down in Arizona. This is the 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.520 last gas, fourth and twenty four, back outside the twenty five. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:50.560