It's good to see you guys keeping your chins up. At least you have the possibility of a bright future. The Cardinals will be a hopeless joke until the Bidwill's sell them, which from what I understand will never happen as the team is their sole enterprise and source of income and they love, love revenue sharing which lines their pockets without having to put it back into payroll.
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the 1991 49ers were perhaps the only example in sports that I can think of where one of the best teams in the league missed the playoffs. I mean the Redskins owned super hard that year but the Niners won their last six games of the regular season including absolutely pounding the Bears in the finale, but lost on a tiebreaker. It's the one time I wished there were more teams let into the playoffs. I think part of the culprit was an injury to Steve Young but don't remember the details.