1998 Arizona Cardinals vs San Diego Chargers- The Last 16 Seconds

[azdude81]

You can see Pat Tillman #40 for split second at 4:05-4:06.

[mrwrestlingtape1]

Dam it CBS give Don Criqui a push. Stop making him a jobber.

[aomoridave]

...and Beasley Reece!

[aomoridave]

Don Criqui!

[chrisuncleahmad]

Amazingly, it was not just their only playoff season, but also their only winning season the Cardinals ever had at Sun Devil Stadium

[sam169995]

I dont give a shit Chargers are better cardinals just lost to them yesterday BITCHES!!!!

[soccer09ism]

Damn sab diego beat the cardinals two day by 3 secs and by 3 points un beileve able

[ThePoWerofthefitz2]

eric metcalf is a beast

[brad11387]

i hope they come out with a arizona cardinals greatest game series

[kastacio777]

13 is a lucky number for Cards

[jnwking]

As a Steelers fan this was cool but meant nothing to me...lol, just wanted to say that.

[Bucs211]

As a Buccaneer fan, this game crushed me!



[cackums]

Tillman sighting!

[Jean0987654321]

Is that the voice of DON CRIQUI???!!! :o

[mytimton]

@Jean0987654321 I think it is

[mrwrestlingtape1]

@Jean0987654321 It is. He is a great commentator. Very underrated.

[divinesense]

I WAS THERE!!!!

[drugssuck1991]

Jacke! Jacke! Jacke! I loved this Cardinal team. I've been a diehard fan since the 1998 season. The best moment was in the following week when they upset the Cowboys.

[divinesense]

@drugssuck1991 not only upset them....beat em' badly :).....

[drugssuck1991]

@divinesense That they did! It was awesome!

[69elpato6969]

I was thereee!!! it was awesome. The whole situation! great memories. thanks dad!

[divinesense]

@69elpato6969 yea.... i was 10 years old when my dad took me that game...I'm 25 now..i can't believe it!!!....we watched the fans take down the goal post. awesome memory will never forget

[azminivanracer]

Back in Sun Devil Stadium. dang this is old.

[EBAMF24]

@ 1:23 Ryan Leaf and Doug Flutie sightings

[Gsand8236]

@EBAMF24 Thats not Doug Flutie thats Craig Whelihan , Doug Flutie was still playing for the Bills at that time,  he signed with Chargers in 2001.

[sctvhound]

Listen to the fan at 0:07 saying "He's offside!" He must be very observant to see an offside on a kickoff.

[zula31]

i love youtube for the videos like this

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[thegambitking]

I love the Cardinals, but I remember watching this back in '98 and crying, because I was a huge Buccaneers fan!

[2010FWCSA]

The old logo is cool.

[diamondssjordan]

Sucks they got fucking destroyed today, lol oh well.

[vudujl83]

not a Cardinals fan, but I remember this moment and after seeing them celebrate I was so happy for them; I vaguely remember cornerback Aeneas Williams crying in the locker room after the game

[IronMaidenDoD]

WOW!

[69elpato6969]

I WAS in the game too. A magical game, a wonderful game. A great memory of my teenage years, I was 17 years old and me and my family went to phoenix to see this game from Hermosillo, Mx. Nice Vid, thanks wa52lz .

[GreggJulian]

Where the heck did all those cardinal fans come from, and where did they go for the next ten years

[AROCnation13]

That makes me feel like a kid all over again! One of the greatest moments in Arizona Cardinal history! Too bad the Bidwell's released Jamir Miller, Lomas Brown, and Larry Centers, the greatest receiving back in NFL history, after the season... Those decisions sent us to the bottom of the NFL food chain for a decade...

[lukao81]

classic game for cards fans

[nascarsignore]

lets go cardinals!!!! remember sb 43

[602azcards]

i never seen a nfl team rush the field but come on it my arizona cardinals.. i always been a fan of the cards i even got 2 tattoos of the new and the old arizona cardinals bird...

[aguilanthony]

Great moment in Cardinals history.

[aleksiza]

This moment still makes me tear up...that along with the cowboys win, the tribute to Pat...and the trip to the superbowl..

[cehamlet89]

Hate the cardinals, but love those jerseys. And Jake the Snake!!! Awesome

[nobodysperfect06]

this is an away game for the Chargers right?

[neoprankster]

Yes, this was an away game for SD.

[DuckMuck100]

I remember Chris Jacke, he won a super bowl with green bay in 96.

[thebucszone]

damn cards takin our spot lol but great game anyways for kwamie lassiter with 4 ints

[bballbrenty]

funny how everyone says the cardinals have terrible fans... i've never seen fans of any other pro team rush the field after a big win.

[numberjuanchicano]

I was there! I rushed the field! True cardinal fan baby!!!!!!!!!

[Rockhound6165]

As a long time Cardinals fan, this is a beautiful sight. I was there. The only game I've been to in Arizona. Seen plenty of Cards games on the East coast but this is the first one I was at in Arizona. I'm hoping to make it next season when the Eagles come to AZ.

[AZspaceGUY]

A rare moment that I held hands with a man in public! What a great moment!!!

[wackymac28]

i wonder why they didnt carry the momentum to the next season

[lakerssuckballs]

VINCE TOBIN!!!!

[PabloAZ1]

I've never hugged so many strangers in my life.

Nice to see Pat Tillman there at :19

[MCL21]

People running on the field...wow, you do not see that happening now.

[azdude81]

Great game to be at! Cards fans were as crazy jubilant as I'd ever seen. I especially remember something said by either Lomas Brown or Simeon Rice about Chris Jacke, "This guy scares the hell out of me. He misses the ones he should make and makes the ones that matter most." Not a great season by most people's standards, but it broke new ground for the Cards, thank God.

[mizeryluvkompany]

excellent upload man thx!! cards been my team always even at sds burning up in 120 degree weather! nobody was there, now its sold out with bandwagoners now, thts why i dont go anymore, i hate bandwagoners!! go cards, get ur minds rite!

[08WSChamps]

wow i miss those days, although i'm an Eagles fan and didnt see much playoff action from the birds throughout the mid-late 90s i still enjoyed the magic of the playoffs. I think football was bettre just back then. I miss the old CBS theme and i think the new cardinals jerseys r crap.

[lakerssuckballs]

i loved when Tobin was our coach, we've always had great coaches and bad players... lol

[brabradabrat]

why when Cards get in the playoffs its always magical? a lot better than when other teams get into the playoff? I would rather wait 10 years to wait for Kurt and Larry and the rest of this amzing team too get in the playoffs than any other team? All the other teams are just plain boreing!

[charger619c]

@brabradabrat not the chargers or texans

[NightHawk11and81]

These were my Cardinals. This team made me proud. One of the three best moments in Cards history for me, the other two being the playoff win in Dallas the next week and Nate Poole's catch against Minnesota.

[wackymac28]

sun devil stadium is a cool stadium

[bballbrenty]

I was 8 when i saw this on tv and i cried, cried with tears of joy. I was 8 but I still knew about the cards awful history as a franchise so I knew this game was special. and who says the cardinals have a shitty fan base? who says cardinals fans aren't passionate about their team? I've never seen cowboy or steeler or giants fans or fans of any other pro football team rush the field after their team wins a big game!

[amzarate]

Thanks for the post!!! I'm 27 and watching this brought tears!! I sat in Sec 11 and ran on the field!! We should've thrown the goalpost over the Mill Ave. bridge like we did against the Cowgirls!! How many people remember that?!?!

[rishi62]

i was at this game. One of the best moments of my childhood. My dad has had season tickets since 93 when i was 5 and ivwe been to 7 home games a year ever since, Anyway it was awesoem to see the fans rush the field and tear down the goal posts afterwards

[ghettogadget206]

OMG i remember watching this game live back in 98.. i wanted the chargers to win so the bucs to get in the playoffs.... to bad, it sucked to see them do well, because the bucs were on a late season roll and wouldve made the championship game...

do you have the last 5 minutes or so of this game.. the play by play of don criqui was excellent.. and yes it does suck that he and enberg are covering shitty teams when they should still be doin playoff games instead of nantz and gumbel

[cbaldwinjr]

It's too bad that Don Criqui has been relegated to bottom of the barrel games while Jim Nantz and his awful football play-by-play gets lead coverage. Same for Gus Johnson. If ANYONE should be doing the lead game, it should be Dick Enberg...I can't think of many AFC games that were classics without his signature "OH MYYYYYYYY!"

[IronMaidenDoD]

25,000 fans because the 115 degree weather was way too hot to bear. now we have a stadium and it sells out to over 60,000.

heres a fun fact

it has AC!!! lol.

my cardinals shall prevail

[seattlecard]

Yes! The Cards are indeed a magical team! Awesome moment, I was on the field!!

[cackums]

cardinals are a magical team. sent chills up my spine.

[Mibrilane]

That was a magical moment. I don't think people who are used to having a winning team understand what kind of moment it is when a perennial loser finally wins something significant.

This moment was topped last season, finally, and several times at that. Now the Detroit Lions are officially the worst team in football.

[86mami]

So what if the Card's went to super bowl they are still a very shitty football team and the worse of them all.

[Rockhound6165]

Yeah, very shitty...with Fitzgerald and Boldin. Bar none the best receiving duo in football today. Yeah, we suck. Get bent you troll.

[chocks11]

yea the cardinals suck... your a fuckin idiot who cares if they lost they still made an incredible run

[sarita601]

Yeah I know, nowhere near as many Super Bowl championships as the Chargers.

[mrwrestlingtape1]

NFL Today Updates rule. Someone should just post all game breaks.

[86mami]

Arizona Cardinals suck so bad....

GO SAN DIEGO CHARGERS

[mymindisfree09]

That's why we went to the Super Bowl I guess

[wackymac28]

i was 5 years old when this happened

[moopman]

jake the snake!!!

[mrAZcardinal]

lol wow... xD go cards

[MaverickBradMPX]

Eric Metcalf is so underrated. He never gets the recognition he deserves. I would vote him into the Hall of Fame if I had a vote. I also like Don Criqui.

[conlanding]

Don Criqui is a great NFL broadcaster. Now, he does the lower tiered AFC Games which is kind of a shame. I remember he and Steve Buerlein called the Cardinals and Patriots game back in 2004, the game which the Cardinals retired Pat Tillman's #40.

[JoeVideoed]

I was living in Philly when this game was played; never got to see the replay until now. THANK YOU wa52lz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

[romangr602]

Why doesnt anyone ever recognize what Plummer did for us in Arizona with the Sun Devils and the Cardinals? True Cardinal fans remember the days before Warner. I really hope we beat the Steelers. We are one more game away from doing the damb thing! Go Cardinals!!!!!

[xExDogxAZx]

Yep, back before the band wagon fans started coming in...

[romangr602]

I always tell my son about this day! I was 17 years old at that game! I was one of the first ones to rush the field! It seems just like yesterday. I was kind of dissapointed nobody rushed the field when we made the Super Bowl against the eagles. I think it was impossible though, there was a couple of rows of cops blocking the field. Go Cardinals!!!!

[lishsc3]

If you "True" Cardinals fans think this was Exciting, Just wait 'til you get introduced as the NFC Champions right before the Super Bowl!! Being a Loyal Seahawks fan, i know all about having a magical year out of nowhere, and then reaching the "Big Game"!! America Has said all year that the NFC West was a joke....Well we got the NFC Champions, and possibly the Super Bowl Champs...So Keep Laughing America!! I just hope you don't get "Screwed Over" by the Refs like Seattle did 3 years ago! Go AZ!

[ohndray]

Man...i was 12. I grew up in a family of raiders and cowboy fans...my pops is a vikings fan...I'm probably the only Cards fan in my family. BUT...we went to as many cards games as possible. We'd hit up scalpers for 10 dollar tix! Hot ass metal bleachers... We've come a long way from spots of red in the stands.

[mrblujet]

SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go Cards!

[srdale17]

I remember this game! It was awesome. Thanks for posting.

[FREON212]

wow.... this was one of the luckiest seasons ever. I really thought we were building something here with a young team headed by Jake Plummer. Things turned sour quickly, it was a shame, especially the following year.

[nickcash20031985]

I was 13, I still have the chunck of the North End Zone goal line grass in my garage. Thank you to all the LOYAL 25K fans who would sit on the bleachers in September in Sun Devil Stadium....

[conlanding]

This game drew 71,670, the largest crowd at Sun Devil Stadium that the Cardinals had which was not againt the Dallas Cowboys. When the Cowboys made a annual trip to Arizona, crowds of 70,000+ would be there, mostly Cowboys fans.

[sgr4444]

Sun Devil Stadium wasn't too bad in December when that game was played, Sep and parts of Oct were terrible... plus we were never on national tv so all the games were in the afternoon back then. But now?!?!?!?!?

[lishsc3]

C'mon Cards! Don't just be happy with making the 2008 playoffs.....Win some games and give longtime fans something to finally cheer about!!

[cgunit16]

I'll never forget this moment. I remembered when they converted the 4th and 20 to score, I seriously thought there was something that was preventing us from making the playoffs. I was really excited, but beating Dallas AT Dallas 20-7 is my most favorite moment as a Cardinals fan, though I'm hoping this year's team will make more moments.

[chrisuncleahmad]

How did San Diego tie the game prior to Arizona kicking the winning field goal?

[Dagio32]

The Chargers tied it on a touchdown pass on 4th and 20 with 16 seconds left. Every win that season seemed to come down to the final minute.

I remember watching this game. It was one of the few times a home game at Sun Devil Stadium wasn't blacked out in Arizona. Kwamie Lassiter had 4 interceptions yet San Diego still managed to tie the game late.

[1stclasspercussionis]

BEAUTIFUL!!! i was 9 years young cheering my ass off!