With the Super Bowl Hosting Curse finally destroying the Cardinals’ chance of becoming the first team to play in a Roman-numeralized (probably not a word) football game in their own stadium, there’s even more bad news for a team that apparently will have to enter the postseason with Ryan Lindley and Logan Thomas at quarterback: Kurt Warner is not an option.
Warner isn’t an option, even if he wants to be. By league rule, the deadline for reinstatement of players on the reserve/retired list came expired on November 28.
Darren Urban of the Cardinals’ official website recently reported that Warner remains on Arizona’s reserve/retired list. Which means that he can’t in 2015.
Warner admitted that he considered unretiring to join the Cardinals after Drew Stanton suffered a knee injury during a December 11 win over the Rams.
“It amazed me I thought about it as much as I actually thought about it,” Warner said on December 14.
There’s a possible path through the maze, if Warner would decide to try to put a cherry atop one of the most memorable stories in NFL history by riding back in from the sunset to save the season. The theory has been posed to the league office; for now, it can’t happen, even if Warner would want it to.
