Posts Tagged ‘2008 season’

2008 - The Sleeping Giant Awoke

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

sb43cards3Pinch me will ya. But did we all see the 2008 Arizona Football Cardinals in the greatest sporting spectacle of all time? You mean to tell me out of 32 teams that started out from mini-camps, through rigorous training camp and through pre-season injuries, that the Cards ended up being the representatives for the NFC in Super Bowl 43?

You bet, in front of the largest television audience of all time for a super bowl. In arguably the greatest Super Bowl game ever played. What an incredible ride it was, the memories from that magical season will last a lifetime. The Cards were about an inch away from a ticker-tape parade in Downtown Phoenix if it weren’t for Santonio Holmes barely, and I mean just barely getting his right toe to touch the turf.

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