I know about wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin, the resurrection of running back Edgerrin James and the sudden emergence of the defense.
I know that with the roof closed at University of Phoenix Stadium and a surge of last-second bandwagon-jumpers after Arizona beat Carolina last week, the Cardinals will actually have a home-crowd advantage - possibly for just the fourth time in their existence in the desert.
I know that, logically, the Eagles could lose to the Arizona Cardinals.
Umm, no they can't.
If this were the regular season or another round of the playoffs, maybe, but the NFC Championship Game - no.
The Philadelphia Eagles cannot lose and allow the Arizona Cardinals to advance to Super Bowl XLIII.
The order of the cosmos won't allow it. I think there's a law written against it somewhere.
I mean, really, wouldn't the city of Glendale, Ariz., sink into the desert if the Cardinals upset the balance of the universe by achieving something that great?
Arizona Cardinals and Super Bowl - the thought forces the mind to shut down from the vast expenditure of energy used to comprehend it.
It is the Cardinals, and whether they were representing Racine, Chicago, St. Louis, Phoenix or Arizona, this has generally been the most disheveled, mismanaged and lousy franchise in the NFL.
And considering some of the dark eras in Eagles history, it takes a lot from someone in Philadelphia to say that.
Since it was founded as the Morgan Athletic Club on Chicago's South Side in 1898, the Cardinals franchise has the distinction of being the oldest continuously run football franchise in the nation.
The Chicago Cardinals were a charter member of the National Football League.
They beat the Eagles, 28-21, in the 1947 NFL Championship Game, and since then, nothing.
