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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (24648)	1/23/2009 3:30:04 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 91234

I think it will come down to whether they can get to Warner or not and whether or not he gets stripped of the ball.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (24648)	1/23/2009 6:05:12 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 91234

The way to beat Warner is to physically pound him. Take a couple 15 yard penalties but make them count. He turns into a deer in the headlights when you smack him around....just ask his wife <g>

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (24648)	1/23/2009 9:31:47 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 91234

I'm hoping for an exciting game regardless of who wins. We know Pitt will be rough, they don't play flag football and that's for sure.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (24648)	1/26/2009 3:09:22 PM
From: jrhana	1 Recommendation Respond to of 91234

Cardinals brought NFL title to Chicago with West Side coach Jimmy Conzleman masslive.com by The Republican Sports Desk Saturday January 24, 2009, 6:34 PM By GARRY BROWN gbrown@repub.com How long since a team named "Cardinals" won a pro football championship? So long, that when it last happened ... -- Harry Truman was president of the United States. -- "Heartaches" by Ted Weems was the nation's No. 1 song. -- Loretta Young won an Oscar for "The Farmer's Daughter." -- A gallon of gasoline cost 15 cents. -- There were 14,000 television sets in the United States. -- The NFL had 10 teams, including the Boston Yanks. Yes, you're really getting old if you remember any of those happenings from 1947. And Jimmy Conzleman, too. Now a name in the dustbin of pro football history, Jimmy Conzleman was quite the dashing figure in his day. He played football in the Navy with George Halas, then joined him with the Chicago Staleys in 1920 for the beginning of the National Football League. By 1947, he was well established as a coach and believer in the T-formation, an offensive alignment which Notre Dame and West Springfield's own Angelo Bertelli made famous in the early 1940s. Conzleman became coach of the "other" team in Chicago - the Cardinals - in 1940. In 1945, with World War II over and a new era beginning for his team, he began building what would become football's first "million dollar backfield." He started by making Missouri quarterback "Pitchin' Paul" Christman his No. 1 draft pick of 1945. In 1946, he added halfback Elmer Angsman of Notre Dame and fullback Pat Harder of Wisconsin. Harder was a triple threat who also excelled as a linebacker and placekicker. The building of Conzleman's "million dollar backfield" was completed in 1947 when the Cardinals made Georgia halfback Charlie Trippi their No. 1 draft pick and the NFL's first $100,000 player. It was a huge splash at the time, guaranteed to draw attention away from Chicago's beloved Bears. More important, it was a move which would turn the Cardinals into an offensive force good enough to challenge for the championship. In a late-season confrontation, Conzleman's Cards beat the Bears and went on to win the Western Division with a 9-3 record. The Bears finished 8-4. In the NFL title game at Chicago's Comiskey Park (remember that one?), the "million dollar backfield" delivered, big time. Trippi had a 44-yard run and a 75-yard punt return for touchdowns. Angsman ripped off two 70-yard TD runs as the Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Eagles 28-21. It was their first title since 1925 - and their last one. The Cardinals go all the way back in the NFL. They are a charter franchise, though twice removed from their roots. They spent 40 years in Chicago and 28 in St. Louis before settling in Arizona in 1988. Since 1932, when Charles Bidwill left an executive position with the Chicago Bears to buy the Cardinals, they have operated under the ownership of the Bidwill family. A week from Sunday, they go for their second title as underdogs in the Super Bowl. Hey, maybe they can win one for the Bidwills - and the memory of that old T-formation guy, Jimmy Conzleman.