HOLY CHARLIE TRIPPI, now I demonstrate

My completely worthless knowledge of NFL history -- which is relevant for only one thing...one blog post a year -- tops. This is what I learned instead of calculus or a foreign language.

The Arizona Cardinals, from St. Louis by way of Chicago, have been one of the all-time losers. They have not been in a "Championship Game" since 1948, when they lost to...the Philadelphia Eagles in a blizzard 7 to 0 at Shibe Park. They haven't won a "Championship Game" since 1947. When they beat the, again, Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago 28-21 (the Eagles having beaten the Steelers in a playoff the week before).

So, sixty years, two mergers and 23 new teams later the Arizona Cardinals are playing in a "Championship" game against... [more trivia, if you called the Baltimore Ravens the old Cleveland Browns (which they are), every team left used to play in the NFL Eastern Conference in the 1950s].

The Philadelphia Eagles.

...but wait...

There's more needless trivia.

If Philly and Pittsburgh win next weekend for the all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl there will be many stories of their merger during the lean times of World War II when in 1943 they merged and played as the "Steagles".

Not to mention, which team will Arlen Spector threaten to investigate?

If Arizona and Pittsburgh win, there will be stories of how for the same reasons they merged in 1944 and were known as Card-Pitt -- but were so bad (losing all their games) they were actually called the "Carpets" because their opponents walked all over them.

...AND I'M MY OWN GRANDPA...

Thus endeth the mindless NFL trivia.