... by reaching the Super Bowl. It’s not that the Cardinals were a bad team. In fact, everybody and his brother had been predicting the Cards to be that year’s “sleeper” for at least the last eight years.

No, the problem was the fact that Arizona limped into the playoffs, barely winning a bad division then ignored 70 years of NFL futility to win three-straight games. On top of all that, it almost won the Super Bowl.

Will the Cardinals repeat as NFC champs? Will the Cowboys finally fulfill all of their promise? Will the Eagles ride Michael Vick to the promised land? Will the Vikings, everybody’s darling this season, finally win a Super Bowl?

In compiling my predictions, I took out the master NFL sch...

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