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Kurt Warner was the best quarterback in the league multiple times, and he was a complete bust at other times, then he finished his career lifting an Arizona Cardinals franchise that had its best moment in the Jerry Maguire movie. Now, people from this era remember the Cardinals for coming ridiculously close to beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the biggest game in that franchise’s history. It was all because of Warner.

Let’s start at the beginning. Everyone knows the story. They made a movie about it. He was working at a supermarket, and then he not only made it to the NFL, but he made it to the best offenses of the late 90s, early 2000s.

The St. Louis Rams let Kurt Warner take over the “Greatest Show on Turf” when Trent Green went down in 1999. He went on to win one of the most out-of-nowhere MVPs in NFL history. He went on to lead the league in completion percentage for three years in a row. He won the MVP award in 1999 and 2001, going to the Super Bowl both seasons and winning one of them. Warner fell off a cliff in 2002, losing the final seven starts of his career.

We’ll just completely skip over the New York Giants portion of Warner’s career. It can’t help this at all. When he went to the Cardinals, he was trying to resurrect his career. It took a few years, but he eventually did it. Warner even broke 4,500 yards in 2008, making his final Pro Bowl and even garnered MVP votes again. Warner is a deserving Hall of Famer. His peaks are matched by only a few quarterbacks in history.