When the news first hit that Kurt Warner was going to sign with the Cardinals, I was a) a beat writer for the team at the East Valley Tribune before my life at azcardinals.com and b) covering an Arizona Rattlers game in downtown Phoenix. I pounded out a story about Warner for the newspaper in the press box sometime in the first half, if I recall correctly.
Warner was a name, for sure. But he was already three years removed from starting for a team for an entire season. Hindsight dictates that it was, of course, franchise-altering, but no one knew it at the time. Except maybe Kurt.
Whatever ever happened with Warner, he never wavered in his belief in himself, including when [he first signed with the Cardinals](https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/cardinals-sign-kurt-warner-to-one-year-contract/article_7d2d7cfb-3a26-5f16-a840-20d374a70cba.html) through the roller coaster of the early part of his Arizona tenure.