TAMPA, Fla. -- Why be shortsighted about this? If the issue is whether Kurt Warner belongs in the Hall of Fame, why restrict him to a round building in Ohio with a football popping out the roof? How about Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum? The Louvre and the Smithsonian? The Hy-Vee Supermarkets Aisle of Fame? I'd even propose a lifetime Good Husband medal for a man so devoted to his wife, he just broke the record for most postgame tears spilled in her honor.That mark previously belonged to Rod Tidwell. The fact he played fictitiously in Jerry Maguire for the Arizona Cardinals, the perfect farcical organization for the Tom Cruise-as-sports-agent movie, supplies even more evidence that Warner has cracked the code for Canton and other immortality shrines. Not only has he fashioned the all-time, bags-to-riches, can't-be-duplicated, beyond-hallucinatory fairy tale, he has done so while reviving two dubious, downtrodden franchises: the Cardinals and St. Louis Rams.




