The Kurt and Brenda Show

by Ivette Ricco, President of Femmefan.com

June 6, 2004

Brenda Warner (you know Kurt Warner’s wife) became almost as famous as her husband during his 1999 “Cinderella” season. That was the year the former stock boy, former Arena Football League and NFL Europe quarterback, led the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl victory. That was the year Kurt Warner came off the bench for an injured Trent Green to lead the “Greatest Show on Turf” to a record-breaking season. The Rams’ offensive machine had the experts predicting that they would continue to dominate the league for years and that Warner would lead them to the promise land, over and over again.

Ah…but those mischievous football gods, they can really mess with you. Here it is 2004 and Warner is no longer a St. Louis Ram, he is Eli Manning’s tutor, NFL style. Now, Warner will play in the Meadowlands and hope to play well enough to start. Oh yes those mischievous football gods, they are poised to sack you in the end zone.

On the way to the way to the coronation of the Rams and Warner, Brenda Warner became a media darling. TV cameras routinely zoomed in on her as she cheered on her man while sporting her trendy short spiked hair and long manicured nails.

But Brenda made an impression beyond that of just a supportive wife. Brenda became an outspoken figure capable of igniting debate and controversy as quickly as Kurt tossed a touchdown to Isaac Bruce.

Kurt Warner spent six seasons with the Rams, and during that time Brenda wasn’t exactly shy about saying what was on her mind.

In December of 2002 Brenda called KFNS-AM. She wanted to express an opinion about the level of trust, regarding injuries, between the Rams coach, Mike Martz and the Rams’ players being discussed by co-hosts Bryan Burwell and John Marecek.

Co-host Bryan Burwell questioned whether that level of trust had been shattered when Kurt Warner discovered that he had a broken bone, after insisting that his hand was fine.

Brenda Warner wanted to set the record straight.

When Burwell said it was Martz that who insisted that Warner get his hand x-rayed, Brenda Warner said, “He did not. He did not. All week long I said, “Kurt, I am a nurse. You should get an x-ray.” He said, “The doctors just think it’s bruised.”

Oh - Oh - Direct hit on Martz.

Now ESPN-1050 has put out feelers for Brenda. They know she is direct and will go where coaches and athletes dare not venture. Brenda should fit right in on NY talk radio, that is of course, unless Kurt is failing, flailing or doing a face plant.

But in a sports-crazed city and more importantly in a city that is direct, brutally honest and fanatic about their teams, Brenda’s directness just might help light up the switchboards with her soliloquies. Think of it, Brenda just might have an enduring career, Kurt, well, not so much.

Joe Buck, Fox’s MLB “voice” lives in St. Louis. He said that the exchange between Brenda Warner’s comments with the talk show mouths might have helped send Kurt Warner out of St. Louis.

Joe Buck said, “At worst you are going to get a wife’s point of view about what’s going on with the hot quarterback in town. At best you’re going to get some kind of controversy where she may say something that may be considered out of place.”

“If I’m a New York radio station, and she is willing to do it, Buck said, “I would do anything I could to make a deal happen just hoping Brenda would again stir things up.”

Okay, Kurt and Brenda, New York City is waiting. Failure is not an option. And to paraphrase a well-known NFL owner, you need to “Just Win Baby”. Otherwise, you can just fughedaboutit, because in New York City, there will be no place to hide.

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