Fitzgerald stars in NFC win

Two touchdowns for Cardinals star in Hawaii

9th February 2009 : http://www.skysports.com/

Larry Fitzgerald caught two touchdown passes to guide the NFC to a 30-21 victory over the AFC in the NFL's Pro Bowl in Honolulu on Sunday.

The Arizona Cardinals wide receiver capped off a memorable season in fine style with a total of five receptions for 81 yards and was named MVP after the game.

His first touchdown came on the back of a spectacular 46-yard catch from a Drew Brees pass and the second courtesy of a two-yard throw from Eli Manning. 

Larry Fitzgerald Helps NFC Defeat AFC 30-21 in NFL’s Pro Bowl

By Erik Matuszewski : http://www.bloomberg.com/

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals caught two touchdown passes, including the go-ahead score with 4:07 left, as the NFC defeated the AFC 30-21 in the National Football League’s Pro Bowl.

Fitzgerald, who last week caught two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in the Cardinals’ Super Bowl loss to Pittsburgh, was named the game’s Most Valuable Player in helping the National Football Conference take a 20-19 lead in the all- time series against the American Football Conference.

Fitzgerald finished with five receptions for 81 yards at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, capping a postseason in which he had set NFL records with 546 receiving yards and seven touchdowns in four playoff games.  

Fitzgerald's two touchdown catches spark NFC to Pro Bowl win

Sun Feb 8, 2009 : http://www.reuters.com/

HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) - Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald caught two touchdown passes to help NFC rally for a 30-21 victory over the AFC in the NFL's Pro Bowl on Sunday.

The Arizona Cardinals' Fitzgerald scored on a 46-yard pass from Drew Brees in the second quarter, then put the NFC ahead 24-21 off a two-yard pass from Eli Manning in the annual end of season game.

Adrian Peterson scored the NFC's other touchdown on a 10-yard third-quarter run and John Carney kicked three field goals.

Fitzgerald named MVP as NFC wins Pro Bowl

 February 8, 2009: http://msn.foxsports.com/

HONOLULU (AP) - With a huge red lei around his neck and a wide grin that could have stretched across Oahu, Larry Fitzgerald held up the gleaming, silver MVP trophy. It sparkled in the sunshine as much as his game.

 

The only problem: It wasn't the Lombardi Trophy.

Fitzgerald caught five passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns, 44-year-old John Carney kicked two fourth-quarter field goals, and the NFC rallied to a 30-21 victory over the AFC. The Arizona Cardinals' All-Pro receiver, coming off a record-breaking postseason and a spectacular Super Bowl in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, earned MVP honors.

But he said the victory over the AFC, which featured three members of the Steelers' defense, didn't ease the pain from the Super Bowl.

Larry Fitzgerald's dad a veteran journalist proud to see son in Super Bowl

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 something Larry Sr., the receiver's journalist-father, dreamed about even before son played for Pitt.

TAMPA - Every father who has a son and is a football fan has the same fantasy. It is nurtured from the time the son steps onto the field in Pee Wee football. The dad wants to see his son play in the Super Bowl someday.

Sports journalists have the same dream, but it is nurtured in secret - part of that "No Rooting in the Press Box" oath.

Larry Fitzgerald Sr., a syndicated radio sports journalist and writer for the Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder newspaper, is getting to see his fantasy come true. His son Larry Jr. is the outstanding receiver for the Arizona Cardinals who will start against Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday.

"It's just still hard to believe it's happening right in front of my eyes," Fitzgerald said. "You see your son develop and you think that one day it's possible. But you never really know. I'm pinching myself everyday. I'm very gratified."

The younger Fitzgerald joked Monday that he might answer his father's questions at Super Bowl Media Day today if his father poses them the right way. He said the only advice his father gave him about handling the media during Super Bowl week was to tell the truth and be himself.

In Green's mold

Cardinals are who their former coach thought they were

If Dennis Green harbors any bitterness for being fired as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals after the 2006 season, he doesn't show it.

If there's a tinge of sadness that Ken Whisenhunt, and not him, is in Tampa Bay this week coaching the Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII, he's not saying that, either.

There certainly weren't any signs of that early Saturday morning as Green, wearing a hat with his trademark saying, “They Are Who We Thought They Were” on it, fished from a boat on Dixon Lake in Escondido. Green's 10-year-old son, Zach, fished next to him, and they were joined by Jed Dickerson and his son, Jed Jr.

Anyone there saw a boat filled with the laughter and excitement of two fathers with their sons, enjoying a morning fishing on a lake.

Fishing always has been a big part of Green's world, dating back to his youth in Harrisburg, Pa. And now that he's retired from coaching, living in San Diego and approaching his 60th birthday next month, Green spends as much time as he can with his wife, Marie, daughter, Vanessa, 11, and son.

“I like where I'm at in my life,” Green said. “My world is living here in San Diego and fishing with my son and playing golf with my wife and daughter every chance I get.