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Cardinals to Super Bowl; Warner Cashes In

Congratulations to the Arizona Cardinals for making their first Super Bowl, especially since I had them beating Philly. My condolences to Donovan McNabb, a genuinely fine QB, whose life will now be a living hell for failing to get the Eagles to the Super Bowl again, despite overachieving to get this far. However, it's Kurt Warner who engineered the Cardinals unlikely run to Tampa, especially today throwing four touchdowns, including three to Larry Fitzgerald. He completed 21 of 28 passes for 279 yards with no interceptions and those 4 touchdowns.

Speaking of overachieving, Kurt Warner who started the season as Matt Leinart's backup is now passing his way into a pretty nice paycheck thanks to the bonuses built into his contract. He earned $1.5 million in performance bonuses during the regular season and has already banked bonuses totalling $2 million for getting the Cardinals to the Super Bowl. He will get another $500,000 if the Cardinals can win in Tampa, doubling his salary. Not a bad few weeks of work, don't you think.

While I'm passing out mazel tovs to Cardinals, I shouldn't forget the University of Louisville who took down number one Pitt yesterday before a raucous full house at Freedom Hall for their fourth straight win and third straight over a ranked Big East team. The surging Cards seem to have put their early season problems behind them and face a crucial road test this week against Syracuse ( but then every game in the Big East is a test). To cap a good sports weekend for me, the Northwestern Wildcats finally managed not to cough up a lead and held on to beat 17th ranked Minnesota today in what may turn out to be a season changing performance. Following closely on the heels of Wednesday near take down of Purdue, during which the Cats lead nearly the entire game but couldn't hold on at the very end, it's clear that this edition of the Cats can compete with anyone in the Big Ten and this week will hopefully have given the Cats the confidence necessary to do so.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on January 18, 2009 (boomark / email).