As Jay-Z would rap, the Arizona Cardinals in 2020 are in an “Empire State of Mind.”
After the Cardinals halted their own 3 game losing streak and ended the Giants’ 4 game winning streak in “one single bound”— by virtue of beating the Jets and Giants at MetLife Stadium by a combined score of 56-17 and by beating the Bills 32-30 on the Hail Murray Holy Hop in Glendale—-the Cardinals have won the Empire State trifecta.
Having grown up in the NY metropolitan area—-and, thanks to my Uncle Michael, a NYC attorney who represented NYC detective Frank Serpico (immortalized by Al Pacino) and subsequently helped to spearhead the effort to crack down on police corruption by being named the leading attorney of the Knapp Commission—-yes, Uncle Michael, who took me to my first NFL game at the age of 8 on November 24, 1963, Cardinals vs.