{"id":238,"date":"2009-01-15T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-01-15T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:22:58","slug":"cimorellis-question-of-the-day-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Cimorelli’s Question of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does it seem a bit surreal that the Eagles are playing in the NFC Championship game on Sunday?<\/em><\/p>\n

To me, it does.\u00a0 Maybe because they were 5-5-1 after tying the Bengals.\u00a0 Maybe because, just over a month ago, we had all resigned ourselves the Kevin Kolb Era beginning in Philadelphia.\u00a0 Maybe because they need multiple miracles in Week 17 just to get into the playoffs.\u00a0 Maybe because the Vikings win was somewhat expected, and the Giants win seemed more about what the Giants couldn’t do then it was about what the Eagles could do (which is a total mirage because this defense is playing as well as anyone right now–more on that in a later post).\u00a0 Maybe because they play the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, so it does not have the feel of an NFC Championship game.\u00a0 I don’t know why, but it just doesn’t seem real.\u00a0 And, trust me, I’m not complaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 3 straight losses in NFC Championship games were devastating.\u00a0 There are six sports defeats in my lifetime that really rocked me to the core of my existence.\u00a0 And, two of them were in consecutive years–the losses to Tampa Bay and Carolina.\u00a0 Those games were done-deals.\u00a0 Those games were just stepping stones to the Super Bowl.\u00a0 And, those games were both lost in devastating fashion.<\/p>\n

I was out of the country for 2004.\u00a0 The only game I saw all year in English was the Championship game against the Falcons.\u00a0 I followed the season online, got to a computer to watch the gamecast of the Vikings divisional round game, saw the Falcons game on Armed Forces network, and had to watch the Super Bowl in a rural African hotel that just happened to get the Super Bowl on French TV.\u00a0 I was not as invested in that Super Bowl as most of you reading this right now, so it did not hurt me like some of the others.<\/p>\n

This game coming up against the Cardinals is like nothing I’ve ever experienced in my sports fandom.\u00a0 It is a game that, because of the circumstances and the happenings of the season, I never, EVER expected.\u00a0 And, if it were any other year, it would be nice just to get here.\u00a0 But, this year gives us the Arizona Cardinals.\u00a0 So, with my feeling of the proverbial “playing with house money” is a strange combination of “there’s no way we lose this, right?”\u00a0 I have never had a “no way we lose this, right?” at the same time as “how did we ever get here?”<\/p>\n

It is just all so surreal, and honestly, it kind of scares me because a loss will not be the same devastation as those awful, awful days against Tampa and Carolina, but it will be a totally different devastation–one for which I may or may not be prepared.\u00a0 Let’s hope it’s a moot point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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