“CURSES FOR KURT: Sorry, Arizona Cardinal fans, but Sports Illustrated has planted Kurt Warner on the cover of this week’s magazine. You know what that means, right? The dreaded SI curse.”

Nah… Kurt has already been on the cover of SI twice in the past month, and he responded by knocking off the Falcons, Panthers, and Eagles.

But the Rams are most definitely suffering from “The Curse of Kurt”.

They haven’t done squat since he left.

Mabye getting a little abuse from pi$$ed off fans will make Mo relize he’s not doing a single thing to help this team. Everyone knows hes trying to delay things as much as possible for all the GOOD FA to get signed so he can come up with an excuse on how the market didnt work as they planned and we end up with Kris Benson. Jocketty is gone right now because he gave a $hit, tried to help the team as much as possible and ended up taking money ouy of Dewitts pocket. Puppet boy can talk suffisticated and smart all he wants but hes not fooling anyone. This crap Fo is pulling is getting old and things ar starting to get very ugly in Cardinal nation.

That’s some hack “journalism” if I’ve ever seen it. 60 seconds of research by this crack columnist would have revealed multiple SI covers this week. So if the Cardinals are “cursed” as well as the Steelers, does this turn out to be some neverending Donovan McNabb-type game?
Seriously, I learned day one of J-School, to do research.

Wow, an “actual journalist” is in the house. Of course I knew SI put out a regional report this week. Steelers to the east, Cardinals to the west. But our readership here in St. Louis cares about Kurt Warner’s performance, not Troy Polamalu’s. That’s why I focused on the Warner cover. Did my entry say “Cardinals are cursed” or “Steelers are cursed”? No, it said “Curses for Kurt.” Warner is the storyline here. And I thought people in St. Louis (who likely, like me, didn’t get Warner on their SI cover) would like to know he was on it.

And I didn’t even need 60 seconds of research since my SI was sitting on my counter when I left home this morning with a picture of Polamalu on it. But I am glad to hear you got through Day 1 of J-school. Congratulations on that.

this is a pretty funny posting these guys have going here. i’m cracking up. what’s really funny is how ‘an actual journalist’ got so far under hensley’s skin, he replied like a kid getting picked on in the lunchroom.
personally, does anybody really care about curses anymore? there’s the si curse, the madden curse, the masters par 3 curse…who cares. is it even worth bringing up? don’t think so. i kind ofagree with the guy who made the first post.
but should we see warner get ko’d for his career and polamalu get his neck broken while getting tackled by all that ridiculous hair after an INT, in the same game, then we can perhaps have the discussion.

Bravo and touche, Haha! Great points on the topic itself. And, a little too defensive on my part. Remember, I’m an editor, not a columnist — so I’m not used to the personal digs. My blog is just meant to provide some updates on the daily news and hopefully to find a few things to entertain our readers. I haven’t gotten quite accustomed yet to the venom that can be aimed at anything online. But I’m gonna work at it.

Why did I get the Polamalu SI?

Or, perhaps, it’s a good omen.

Go Kurt and Michael Bidwill.

“Speaking of Sports Illustrated, you should check out their article on ‘Why Warner is better QB than Manning.’”

Interesting read, and there are the “facts”, but I can’t diss Peyton so lightly. His team plays in the AFC, and this year’s AFC championship game, as well as the Ravens/Titans matchup, sheds a lot of light on how brutal that conference’s defenses can be to offenses.

Warner was on SI before the 1999 superbowl and seemed to do OK in from what I remember. How about this little known fact that Fritz Shurmer coached for the Rams, And jack Youngblood still blames his 3-4 two gap system in 1983 for the destruction of his body. How about how Fritz walked out of the Rams locker room never to return after a blowup with John Robinson.

Bernie did you not know that Fritz Shurmur was also the Rams DC before he went to the Packers? I think that is worth mentioning, too.

The late Fritz Shurmur was the Rams defensive Coordinator from 1983-1990, under John Robinson.During his tenure, the Rams ran the 3-4 defense.In John Robinson last season(1991), he hired Jeff Fisher to be DC, installing the 4-3, after Shurmur left to Green Bay.