Agreed.
Twenty-odd years later, the truth finally starts to emerge, and settle into a kind of perspective.
These days players are bought and sold, traded and leave on their own as free agents. Kurt's most shining moments, the grocery clerk Anything is Possible story, the GSOT Super Bowl in his first season, are an unequalled legacy. The fact that a head coach wanted to run him out of town (for some dark reasons) but couldn't without first making every attempt to ruin his career, isn't Kurt's doing and he shouldn't be blamed for any part of it. Nor should his wife.
I haven't heard anything come from Kurt that I could call bitterness or vindictiveness toward the Rams. Disappointment, distancing, yes - but forgiveness is one of the tenants of his personal beliefs and over time, it heals the person doing the forgiving. I see that in Kurt.
We may wish for more warm fuzzies and chummy gladhanding and Ram homeboy promotion from Kurt, but what have the Rams done to initiate that sort of exchange? Kurt exporesses gratitude continually for the opportunity the Rams gave him and still has a warm and respectful connection with Dick Vermiel.
He deserves to be remembered and honored for what he did for the Rams. After reading the commentary here about which numbers get retired and which ones don't I think that part is irrelevant, owing to internal politics. That said, it doesn't seem right o see another Ram QB wearing Kurt's number - but wasn't that Bennett's number in college? OK, I tell myself - no biggie.
Let's remember Kurt for his stellar play for the Rams, the kind of teammate and off-the-field citizen he was, and the GSOT/Anything is Possible legend. And let's flush the Bernie Miklatz/MIke Martz besmirching of an honorable man down the drain, take a fresh look at Kurt Warner as a man and as a player, unblemished and with the old stains washed away, and let's honor him for it.
