By the Time We Get to Arizona
by Gary Zeidner
This one goes out to all you Eagles and Public Enemy fans. (And no, I’m not talking about Cagney’s crime boss opus; I’m talking about Chuck D, Flavor Flav, the S1Ws and their seminal rant against AZ for failing for so many years to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
After stumbling worse than Barbaro at the Preakness earlier this season, the Birds — possibly with some help from Santa Claus? — have made it to the NFC Conference Final and are just one game away from the Super Bowl. Equally improbable, based on their early season performance, the Arizona Cardinals will be hosting the Eagles. It is the first time the Cards have ever hosted an NFC Conference Title game.
No one gave the Eagles much chance to dethrone the reigning Super Bowl Champion Giants last week, but the Birds pulled an impressive coupe d’état anyway. For their part, the Cardinals shut the yaps of a bunch of their critics (or left them with mouths agape) by manhandling the Panthers. Given those two performances and the loony bin nature of this NFL season, if either team is looking past the other they’re doing so very much at their own peril.
With a wily Warner commanding the Cards (who have some potent weapons, including one WR name o’ Fitzgerald who makes circus catches like he ran away with Ringling Bros. when he was two years old), it’s going to take another Super Bowl-worthy performance from the Eagles to bounce Arizona in their own house.
Of course, the Birds have a Donnie who’s playing like the Donnie of old, an Andy who actually ran the ball arguably too much last week, a Westy who, even hurt, plays at a level most RBs will never see and a defense that has been leading the charge to our first Lombardi ever, so I believe with all my heart that the Birds will fly out of Arizona Super Bowl bound.
Just in case, though, maybe we Eagles fans should do something big to help our team? Maybe the Eagles faithful in Colorado should trek down to the Land of the Blazing Sun and support our team in person? Maybe a little extra Eagles’ green shining in the upper decks will inspire D-Mac and the rest of the team to that oh-so-vital victory? Now that’s a thought, isn’t it?
One more win to El Grande Dance-o. One more win from there into history. You can do it boys! The entire Eagles’ Nation has your back!! Like Chuck D said, “Hit ’em! Hang ’em high!”
E-A-G-L-E-S . . . EAGLES!!!
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