It rarely, if ever, requires much work to connect former Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner to a Super Bowl storyline or two once the NFL’s conference championships games have ended.

But it’s never been less of challenge than this year’s matchup between the Rams and Patriots on Feb. 3 in Atlanta.

In 2000, Warner put an exclamation point on one of the greatest stories in sports when he led the Rams to a victory over the Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. Warner was named MVP of that game, the only other time the game’s been played in Atlanta.

Two years later, the Patriots, with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, won the first of five Super Bowls by upsetting Warner and the Rams.

“It does sound familiar,” Warner said Tuesday. “In Atlanta, where I played my first Super Bowl. Patriots-Rams, which was the matchup for my second Super Bowl. It’s crazy to think when this Super Bowl happened last. It was Tom’s first Super Bowl and it was the last Super Bowl the Rams were in.

“Here we are, 17 years later, Tom is still playing in Super Bowls nearly every year. But the Rams have found that dynamic — young quarterback (Jared Goff), young coach (Sean McVay). They’ve found their way back.”

Now an analyst with the NFL Network, Warner joked that he’ll be part of the network’s “700 hours of coverage” of the Super Bowl between now and the game.

That’s not really a joke, since there isn’t much else happening in the football world, unless you’re such an addict that you find the Senior Bowl and Pro Bowl alluring.

Warner was available to media on Tuesday to promote “Celebrity Game Night,” a fundraising event to raise money for Treasure House, a home in Glendale where young adults with intellectual developmental disabilities live.

The event will be held at The Van Buren in Phoenix on the night of Feb. 15. Sponsorship and ticket information is available at www.treasurehouse.org/gamenight.

Warner, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017, and his wife, Brenda, have been active in charitable causes since their days in St. Louis, when Warner directed one of the most prolific offenses in NFL history.

Warner admits playing quarterback makes him biased, but to him the most intriguing storyline in this year's Super Bowl is the difference between the two quarterbacks.

Brady, 41, has played in eight Super Bowls, won five of them and been the MVP in four. This will be his 40th playoff game.

Goff, 24, is playing in his first Super Bowl and just his fourth playoff game.

“The old vet who’s been here nine times, nothing new to him in terms of handling that moment,” Warner said, “as opposed to a young quarterback, a third-year quarterback. How that plays out, I think that’s where it starts.”

Warner played in three Super Bowls, with his last coming with the Cardinals in the 2008 season. That Cardinals team was young, and in many ways, immature. In preparing for Super Bowl Week, Warner’s advice to his teammates was to enjoy the week rather than let the demands of media, friends and family wear on them.

The Cardinals lost to the Steelers in the final seconds.

The Patriots and Rams have a lot of “difference makers” on the field, said Warner. Sometimes, Super Bowls produce heroes that were previously unsung. More often, Warner said, the games are determined by how well each team’s stars play.

“Your difference makers, your big-time players, how do they play in the biggest moments?” Warner said. “There will be a lot who have been here before and a lot who haven’t.

“There are great dynamics in the veterans versus the young guys. How does that play out here on the biggest stage?”

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