KURT STILL COY ABOUT HIS FUTURE

7So we stayed up last night to watch the appearance of Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner and receiver Larry Fitzgerald on The Tonight Show, searching for a hint as to whether Warner will return for 2009 or retire. The only thing we learned is that Anne Hathaway is incredibly annoying. (If you don’t believe us, check out the highlights.) Actually, that’s not the only thing we learned. We now know that Warner’s preferred attire for appearances on national television is a dress shirt with the cuffs carefully flipped back once to reveal a color or a pattern different from the shirt itself. As to his football status, Warner rolled out some predetermined shtick. “My wife and I have talked about it a lot, and we’ve come to the conclusion that we’re done,” Warner said. “We’re not having any more children.” Then Warner briefly addressed the real issue. “In all seriousness, I’m contemplating everything. . . . If [Fitzgerald] has his way I think I might, but if my body has its way right now I might not.” Warner also said that he plans to take “a couple weeks” to make his decision, a comment that we almost missed because Leno started talking before Warner was finished. That phrase -- “a couple weeks” -- does nothing to erase our gut feeling that Warner is trying to finagle a shot at the free-agent market. Because in “a couple weeks” Warner will be able to play for any team that’ll have him. Given that Warner plays his best ball in a dome, we’re starting to wonder whether he’s eyeballing a certain team that plays its home games in a indoors, that will play two of its road games in two of his prior homes (St. Louis and Arizona), and that has every piece in place for a Super Bowl run, with the exception of a quarterback who can take advantage of all the attention that is directed to the best running back on the planet.