Come one, come all. Welcome to the desert. If you are not in the desert, need not worry we will take care of you. This is not a blog about the Arizona Football Cardinals.
This is not going to gloat and tell you about the team or leak gossip or rumors about players. And this is definitely not a blog created to show certain players enjoying the company of under-aged coeds with beer bongs. This is a look into the life of those who are hopeless romantics.
This is not for football fans. This is for you. This is for Hope. Not Barack Obama Hope, but the Hope that anything can happen. Until this day, we have remained silent. We have sat back and tried to comprehend everything that is going around us. We lost ourselves with distractions from the greater good. The greater good that is happiness; that is a release from the daily grind of our surroundings.
For years and decades the Arizona Cardinals have been a team without an identity. They have been a team in transition. They have been a team that is always a step too slow or too early. They are a team that has missed on every “can’t miss” opportunity. The team was never seen as a beckon of hope, but rather a metaphor that no matter what happens in you day-to-day life you can rely on the fact that you are better off then them.
When you speak of the Cardinals the normal pronouns associated with sports are lost. Rather than describing the team or its actions as “We” did this, it is always “They.” “I can’t believe THEY did that!” You never want to associate yourself with their play or performance.
When defending the reasoning to outsiders for being a Cardinal fan there is never a pride element. You never say I love the Cardinals because there is a happy memory associated with them. But, deep down, deep inside the core of the true believers there is a burning desire. There is a burning desire in each of us that motivates the team to get to the top.
Come on, we read about them in the Super Bowl in Chuck Palahniuk’s “Survivor” and watched Rod Tidwell go over the middle in “Jerry Maguire.” These are not coincidences; these are the cracks to the foundation that has been laid against the Cardinals by the non-believers.
In leaving, this blog will not be regarded as a reliable source for information, but a way into the mind and spirit of Red Nation. The Arizona Cardinals have been heartbreaking. The Arizona Cardinals are hopeless romantics. But . . . STAY TUNED!
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Looks better. Blogging is a bitch.
I was talking to a sports economist the other day and he mentioned the revenue sharing that goes on in the NFL. That would be a good topic to write about.
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