Kaptain Kurt

I am so happy for Kurt Warner, who has helped guide the Arizona Cardinals to the NFC Championship game. The man is a class act through and through and of course he is a St. Louis sports legend after what he did with the Rams. I certainly hope this postseason run helps his Hall Of Fame chances. The Philadelphia Eagles did the Cardinals a favor by knocking off the N.Y. Giants in the other NFC semifinal game, which means the Cardinals will host the Eagles for the NFC Championship. While beating the Eagles will be no small task, playing them in Arizona rather than playing the Giants in New York has to make the Cardinals confident.

Baltimore's defense, some key turnovers by the Tennessee Titans and a really bad no-call by the refs on an obvious delay of game penalty helped the Ravens topple Tennessee. They will play the winner of Pittsburgh/San Diego, which is just getting ready for kickoff. As a lifelong Steelers fan, I am pulling for Pittsburgh all the way.

The Rams' coaching search is taking an ominous turn, with many people in the know saying that the team is just putting on a dog and pony show that will end up with them giving the job to interim coach Jim Haslett. Given that as defensive coordinator Haslett's Rams defense sucked seven ways to Sunday and given that as interim head coach he went 2-10 with a 10 game losing streak, this is unfathomable to me. If Haslett is the hire, my enthusiasm for Rams' football will diminish greatly. We'll have to see how this plays out, but right now I am not at all happy with the direction this "search" is going.