Kurt Warner Retires

From bagging groceries to Hall of Fame Quarterback. No, this isn't a fairytale, this is the story of Kurt Warner. We've all heard the story before & what Kurt Warner was doing before he elevated himself into a Hall of Fame NFL QB. He was stocking shelves at the Cedar Falls Hy Vee grocery store for $5.50 per hour. & in 5 years, he will cement his name in the annals of football lore.

I can go all day taking about his stats. How Kurt Warner has the 2nd highest passing yard per game average, how he has the most passing yards in Super Bowl history (single game & career), how he's tied with Joe Montana for the most TD in one postseason (11), or how he's the only QB to throw for 14,000 yards for 2 different franchise. It's not only the stats that make Warner HOF worthy. It was the fact that he took 2 of the NFL's worst run franchises & turned them from laughing stocks, to Super Bowls, making one of them a champion. Think about that for a minute.

The Chicago/STL/Arizona Cardinals had a total of 2 post season wins (spanning back to 1947) before Warner. He collected 3 in one season & came within seconds of delivering the pathetic franchise a Super Bowl victory. The LA/STL Rams, were coming off a 4-12 season led by Tony Banks in 1998, before the grocery bagging QB changed the fortunes of the franchise seemingly overnight. The Rams went from ZERO playoff appearances in 10 years, to the Greatest Show on Turf & winning Super Bowl 34. Stats aside he changed the culture of 2 losing franchises making them into winners. That's IMPACT!!!