Arizona Cardinals

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The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, a suburb northwest of the state capital of Phoenix. The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920. The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States, and, along with the Chicago Bears, are the only NFL charter member franchises still in operation. In 1960, the team moved to St. Louis, where it was commonly referred to as the "Football Cardinals", the "Gridbirds", or the "Big Red" to avoid confusion with Major League Baseball's (MLB) St. Louis Cardinals. Before the 1988 season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, where it played home games for the next 18 seasons at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University. In 2006, the team moved to their current home field in suburban Glendale. Their executive offices and training facility remain in Tempe, although they are moving them to north Phoenix in 2028. From 1988 to 2012 (except 2005, when they trained in Prescott), the Cardinals conducted their annual summer training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. In 2013, the Cardinals moved their training camp to their home field, then called University of Phoenix Stadium, now State Farm Stadium. The Cardinals have won two NFL championships, both while the team was in Chicago. The first, in 1925, was disputed by supporters of the runner-up Pottsville Maroons. Their second, and the first to be won in a championship game, came in 1947, nearly two decades before the first Super Bowl. They returned to the title game to defend in 1948, but lost the rematch 7–0 in a snowstorm in Philadelphia. The team has since suffered many losing seasons and, as of 2024, has the longest active championship drought in North American sports at 77 seasons (one more than MLB's Cleveland Guardians, who last won the World Series in 1948). The Cardinals have recorded the most losses by a franchise in NFL history with 812 regular season losses as of 2024. The team's all-time win–loss record (including regular season and playoff games) at the conclusion of the 2024 season was 600–822–41 (593–812–41 in the regular season, 7–10 in the playoffs). They have been to the playoffs 11 times and have won seven playoff games, including three in the 2008–09 NFL playoffs. During that season, they won their only NFC Championship Game since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, and reached Super Bowl XLIII, losing 27–23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team has won five division titles (1974, 1975, 2008, 2009, and 2015) since their 1947–48 NFL championship game appearances. The Cardinals are the only NFL team that has never lost a playoff game at home: their 5–0 record encompasses the 1947 NFL Championship Game, two games during the 2008–09 NFL playoffs, one during the 2009–10 playoffs, and one during the 2015–16 playoffs. In their 36 seasons since moving to Arizona in 1988, the Cardinals have a total of six playoff appearances, three division titles, and one NFC championship.

Infobox

Established

1898; 127 years ago (1898)

Stadium

State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona

Headquartered

Tempe, Arizona

Colors

Cardinal red, white, black, silver

Mascot

Big Red

Website

azcardinals.com

Owner

Michael Bidwill

Chairman

Michael Bidwill

President

Michael Bidwill

General manager

Monti Ossenfort

Head coach

Jonathan Gannon

Tables

· Players of note › Retired numbers

No.

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

No.

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Player

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Position

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Tenure

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Retired

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Larry Wilson

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1960–1972

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1970

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Pat Tillman

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1998–2001

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

2004

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Stan Mauldin

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1946–1948

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1948

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

J. V. Cain

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1974–1978

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1979

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

Marshall Goldberg1

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1939–1943, 1946–1948

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers

1948

Chicago / St. Louis / Arizona Cardinals retired numbers
No.	Player	Position	Tenure	Retired
8	Larry Wilson	S	1960–1972	1970
40	Pat Tillman	S	1998–2001	2004
77	Stan Mauldin	OT	1946–1948	1948
88	J. V. Cain	TE	1974–1978	1979
99	Marshall Goldberg1	HB	1939–1943, 1946–1948	1948

· Players of note › Pro Football Hall of Famers

Players