Arizona Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals (or simply the Cardinals) is a professional American football team from Glendale, Arizona. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in theNational Football League (NFL).

The Cardinals are the oldest team in the United States. The team was founded in 1898 under the name Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago. When they entered the NFL in 1920, the name was changed to Chicago Cardinals. In 1960 the team got the name St. Louis Cardinals, when they moved to St. Louis. Then the name would change twice. When the team moved to Arizona in 1988, was the first time the name Phoenix Cardinalschanged in 1994, after which it was in Arizona Cardinals.

The Cardinals are known as chronic losers. There was an NFL Championship won twice, namely in 1925 and 1947. Since then, the team has never been in a final.

On January 18, 2009 the Cardinals played the final of the NFC against the Philadelphia Eagles. They won this competition with a score of 25-32. This means that the Cardinals for the first time in their existence will participate in the Super Bowl, in which they will compete against the champion of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the AFC, which the Baltimore Ravens deactivated call-by-with a 14-23 victory.

Meanwhile this match played on 1 February 2009, where the Cardinals in Tampa in the last moments of the match were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-23, when the 6th Super bowl victory would mean for the team from Pittsburgh.