I still think the Monday night meltdown was the worst.
We were totally hosed.
The one play that stands out still.
We give the ball to edge, he runs a little but gets his leg grabbed. Then another defender dives at his legs,..then another, and another...Edge was on total lock down...stood up, with 5 or 6 defenders piled waste high around him...totally could not move for like four seconds...a definitive forward progress situation.
Five yards away you see Brian Urlacher stop...looking at the play...obviously expecting a whistle,...because, well...forward progress had been halted..
Then you see Urlacher realize that the official standing 3 yards away watching Edge, well he ain't gonna blow the whistle!!
So Urlacher jumps too, runs over and drags the ball away from Edge, who can't resist because he is totally pinned...then Urlacher runs in for the Touchdown.
Was obvious to me at that moment there was no way the officials or the nfl was going to allow that arrogant ass Dennis Green make these loser ass upstart Cardinals into a winner. That game. That season. That coaching staff. All the hope that came with it...
It was all dead and gone right then and there.
For whatever reasons...we are never just fighting against our opponents on the field.
Rather it's the Pottsville curse...the NFL not being ready for a dark skinned HC to win a Lombardi...or Billy B always taking the moral high ground in a league full of dirtbag owners,..or the fact the Cardinals milked the nfl profit sharing like welfare for decades .... something always turns up to play Lucy to our Charlie Brown.
A lot of those obstacles are gone now. So the team has to find new ways to remain the laughingstock of pro sports.
But I have to admit.... I grudgingly admire their creativity