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#10 > Arizona Cardinals 51, Green Bay Packers 45 [OT] Jan. 10

Outside the Arc would like to close out 2010 with some actual blog entries and also get ready for 2011. As there are in each calendar year, there were in 2010 some spectacular moments in the world of sports. OTA would like to submit a Top 10 worth of games that really were worth watching during the past 12 months. If you saw any one of these contests, you knew when it was done that you had seen something worth remembering. So let’s kick this off…

At #10, we take you back to the January and the highest scoring game in NFL playoff history. The Arizona Cardinals took a 17-0 lead into the second quarter against the Green Bay Packers, but quarterbacks Kurt Warner and Aaron Rodgers made watching the rest of the game like viewing a tennis match with all of back-and-forth scoring and momentum changes that followed. Warner actually had more touchdown passes (5) than he had passes fall incomplete (4).

Rodgers' touchdown pass to Spencer Havner with less than two minutes remaining tied the game at 45 and allowed for an overtime session. However, although the Packers won the toss and got the ball first, three plays into the extra period, Rodgers fumbled the ball and Karlos Dansby ran it in for the score. (Somewhere in the northwest, Seahawks fans were celebrating the poetic justice of the playoff loss for the Packers.)

And in a postscript, if there was any question as to the impact that Warner made during his tenure with the Cardinals, we submit to you Exhibit A: The 2010 Arizona season, complete with the blazing disarray at the quarterback position.