Kicking the Habit?
The Super Bowl matchups are now set with the St. Louis er, I mean Arizona Cardinals playing the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tampa Bay in two weeks. The Arizona Cardinals stemming from St. Louis to Chicago have finally kicked the habit! No more failing to reach the Super Bowl. They can finally shrugg of their “Clipper-esque” label. However, today’s post is not about how Arizona kicked the habit of losing which is by no means a small issue. Instead I’d like to discuss yesterday’s NFL conference championship “kicking.” Usually kicking is not important unless a field goal decides the game or a kick/punt return goes back for a touchdown. If you’ve noticed as I did yesterday, the kicking and punting aspects of the games were curiously awful and almost too surrealistic. Continue reading
