Arizona Cardinals
- By Freddie Brister
- Published 02/23/2010
- Sports
- Unrated
All football fans have their pre-game and post-game foods, like pizza and wings with beer. A tradition at Arizona Cardinals games is for the fans to eat their teams' colors for the tailgate parties. Among the more popular dishes are the Sonoran Desert Dog - made of a spicy sausage topped with red pepper and a yellow corn relish, or a red tortilla filled with chicken and cheese. As for desert, our Cardinal fans prefer a yellow or black tortilla baked and coated with cinnamon sugar served with red-colored fruit salsa and whipped cream.
The Arizona Cardinals is the oldest active team in American Football. They began as a mere athletic club in Chicago in 1898, known as the Morgan Athletic Club. By 1913 the Racine Cardinals would turn pro and in 1920 they would become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association, which became the National Football League in 1922. The only two charter teams still in existence are the Cardinals and the Chicago Bears, who were the Decatur Staleys prior to moving to Chicago in 1921. In 1922 the Cardinals became the Chicago Cardinals after the league placed a team in Racine, WI to avoid confusion.
In 1925 the Cardinals won their first championship. In 1925 the league awarded the championship to the team with the best record instead of having a postseason. However, that championship would fall under controversy, and in the end would not be officially awarded to anyone. The 1925 Pottsville Maroons
defeated the Cardinals 21-7, thus giving them the best record in the league. However, the league stripped them of the title after the Maroons played a team comprised of University of Notre Dame all-stars in Philadelphia, citing that the game violated the Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise rights since it was played on the same day the Yellow Jackets were scheduled to play. The league had threatened the Maroons prior to the game. The NFL had attempted to officially award the championship to the Cardinals but Coach Chris O'Brien felt his team didn't deserve it since they had lost fairly to the Maroons. The league recognizes the Cardinals as the champions to this day despite several attempts by teams to have the decision reversed to either share the championship or fully award it to the long disbanded Maroons.
The only other championship in Cardinals history came in 1947, while still in Chicago, in a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The same two teams would play the following year with the Eagles coming out victorious. The Cardinals have never returned to a championship game and have the longest championship drought. In fact, until 2008 the Cardinals had only won two playoff games and had never been in a conference championship game since 1947. The Cardinals moved to St Louis in 1960 and Phoenix in 1988. However, the "Phoenix" Cardinals never played in Phoenix, but instead played at Arizona State University's Sun Devil stadium in Tempe, Az. In 1994 they changed their name to one more fitting; the Arizona Cardinals, and in 2006 finally had their own stadium in Glendale, Az.
The Arizona Cardinals is the oldest active team in American Football. They began as a mere athletic club in Chicago in 1898, known as the Morgan Athletic Club. By 1913 the Racine Cardinals would turn pro and in 1920 they would become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association, which became the National Football League in 1922. The only two charter teams still in existence are the Cardinals and the Chicago Bears, who were the Decatur Staleys prior to moving to Chicago in 1921. In 1922 the Cardinals became the Chicago Cardinals after the league placed a team in Racine, WI to avoid confusion.
In 1925 the Cardinals won their first championship. In 1925 the league awarded the championship to the team with the best record instead of having a postseason. However, that championship would fall under controversy, and in the end would not be officially awarded to anyone. The 1925 Pottsville Maroons
The only other championship in Cardinals history came in 1947, while still in Chicago, in a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The same two teams would play the following year with the Eagles coming out victorious. The Cardinals have never returned to a championship game and have the longest championship drought. In fact, until 2008 the Cardinals had only won two playoff games and had never been in a conference championship game since 1947. The Cardinals moved to St Louis in 1960 and Phoenix in 1988. However, the "Phoenix" Cardinals never played in Phoenix, but instead played at Arizona State University's Sun Devil stadium in Tempe, Az. In 1994 they changed their name to one more fitting; the Arizona Cardinals, and in 2006 finally had their own stadium in Glendale, Az.
Freddie Brister
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