I am not a huge fan of watching football on TV whether its college or NFL. However, I do enjoy going to the games in person. This NFL season, I jumped on the bandwagon and cheered on the Arizona Cardinals. However, for clarification I always support the Arizona teams, some more than others: Cardinals, Suns, Diamondbacks, and Coyotes. A little history on the Cardinals (from Wikipedia):
The Arizona Cardinals, founded in 1898 and a charter member of the National Football League, hold the distinction of being the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States.[1] They are based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. The Cardinals are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The team's lone NFL championship game victory came in 1947 while they were based in Chicago, and came two decades before the first Super Bowl game was ever played. The club's other NFL championship occurred in 1925, eight years before the league began holding a championship game, and is a controversial title to this day. The much contested title was believed to belong to the Pottsville Maroons but was given to the Cardinals instead in what is called the 1925 NFL Championship controversy.In the six-plus decades since winning the championship in 1947, the team has qualified for the playoffs only six times and has won only four playoff games, with three of the wins coming in their ongoing run in the 2008-09 playoffs. They are currently the National Football Conference Champions, after winning the NFC Championship Game on January 18, 2009.
Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved from St. Louis, Missouri to Tempe, Arizona, an eastern suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 17 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium. In 2006 the club began playing all home games at the newly constructed University of Phoenix Stadium in the northwestern suburb of Glendale.
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