Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Cards, Eagles Sell Out In 6 Minutes
The bandwagon overflowed within minutes on Sunday.
Arizona Cardinals fans starved for success gathered by the thousands at the stadium's box office to purchase tickets for next weekend's NFC Championship.
Most walked away empty-handed as season-ticket holders already had purchased tickets and the 20,000 or so for the general public were gone in record time.
Ticketmaster sold out in six minutes.
The Cards even added more tickets to the mix by upping University of Phoenix Stadium's standard 64,500 seats to more than 70,000.
It was a far cry from the team's first home playoff game a week ago when the NFL had to give two extensions before the game sold out.
Clearly, the team's domination of Carolina on Saturday made believers out of skeptics. The Cards are for real and they're one win away from the Super Bowl.
This Sunday, the dust barely settled on the Philadelphia Eagles win over the New York Giants, which locked in the Cards' second home playoff, when fans converged on the mother ship in Glendale.