The Cardinals Do the Impossible

What?! The Cardinals are in the playoffs? They won their division?! That's compensate folks, after 20 old age Arizonans have got something to hearten about. For lone the 2nd clip since coming to the vale of the sun, the Cardinals have got got finished above .500 and have gone to the playoffs. 1998 proverb the Cardinals, Pb by ex- Grand Canyon State State University Sun Devils standout Quarterback Jake "The Snake" Plummer, do their first trip since coming here in 1988. That twelvemonth they knocked the Dallas Cowboy's, led by felons Michael Irvin and Leon Lett, out in the NFC Wild Card game with a convincing 20-7 victory. Of course, they lost to the Gopher State Vikings the adjacent game. Now we once again have got hope my friends! After finishing the season 9-7 and clinching the NFC Occident division the Card Game went on to beat out the Capital Of Georgia Falcons 30-24 at home. This triumph came 61 old age after their last playoff place game, which was when the 1947 Windy City Cardinals won the lone title in squad history. Could we be witnessing the metempsychosis of a long idea dead organization? In my humble, completely biased opinion...YES!!! Call me crazy, but the reddish and achromatic have a chance.

The Cardinals are fueled by aging but born-again Quarterback Kurt Charles Dudley Warner and, Ohio MY, are they every merriment to watch! They have got the best bicycle-built-for-two of receiving systems in Larry Edward Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin, who is possibly the toughest receiving system ever to play the game. I mean, come up on, the cat played with a fractured hip last season and this twelvemonth bouncinesses back after a awful helmet-to-helmet hit against the Jets. He terrorizes his opponents. No squad have an reply for the Warner-Boldin-Fitzgerald quandary they face. Edgerrin James, who have taken a backseat to cub Tim Hightower, even out ran Atlanta's Michael Nat Turner this last game. Nat Turner is the figure two rusher in the league, and by shutting him down and increasing the effectivity of their ain running play game, the Card Game show they are ready. All season everyone have known about their passing play game but the running play game have been dead at best. The Card Game acquire to the playoffs and they step it up a notch and get to do squads worry about the haste so they are not as effectual against the pass. Who would've thought the Cardinals had it in them? The squad have a bright hereafter as long as they can maintain this grouping together. With ex- University of Southern Golden State star Quarterback Flatness Leinart pickings lessons from two clip NFL Most Valuable Player Warner, even when Charles Dudley Charles Dudley Warner names it discontinues we will be a military unit to be reckoned with.

So, our adjacent victims will be the Carolina Panthers, and then the victor of the New House Of York Giants - City Of Brotherly Love Eagles game. Of course of study these volition be tough games as the Card Game lost to all three of these squads this year, but any true fan will state you the reddish and achromatic panic will take the NFC statute title and move on to the Superintendent Bowl. I can just see it now, February 1st, 2009 in Tampa Bay, Florida the state will be in awe as the Grand Canyon State Cardinals Face the San Diego Chargers for the right to name themselves the nation's best. Two squads that just a couple of old age ago seemed like they would never even whiff the playoff subdivision again.

Arizona Cardinals

All football game fans have got their pre-game and post-game foods, like pizza pie and wings with beer. A tradition at Grand Canyon State Cardinals games is for the fans to eat their teams' colours for the tailboard parties. Among the more than popular dishes are the Sonoran Desert Dog - made of a spicy sausage topped with reddish common pepper and a yellowish maize relish, or a reddish tortilla filled with poulet and cheese. As for desert, our Cardinal fans prefer a yellowish or achromatic tortilla adust and coated with cinnamon bark refined sugar served with red-colored fruit salsa and whipped cream.

The Grand Canyon State Cardinals is the oldest active squad in American Football. They began as a mere athletic baseball club in Windy City in 1898, known as the Lewis Henry Morgan Athletic Club. By 1913 the Jean Racine Cardinals would turn pro and in 1920 they would go a charter member of the American Professional Football Association, which became the National Football League in 1922. The lone two charter squads still in being are the Cardinals and the Windy City Bears, who were the Decatur Staleys prior to moving to Windy City in 1921. In 1922 the Cardinals became the Windy City Cardinals after the conference placed a squad in Racine, Wisconsin to avoid confusion.

In 1925 the Cardinals won their first championship. In 1925 the conference awarded the title to the squad with the best record instead of having a postseason. However, that title 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 conference stripped them of the statute title after the Maroons played a squad comprised of University of Notre Dame all-stars inch Philadelphia, citing that the game violated the Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise rights since it was played on the same twenty-four hours the Yellow Jackets were scheduled to play. The conference had threatened the Maroons prior to the game. The NFL had attempted to officially awarding the title to the Cardinals but Coach Chris O'Brien felt his squad didn't rate it since they had lost fairly to the Maroons. The conference acknowledges the Cardinals as the champs to this twenty-four hours despite respective efforts by squads to have got the determination reversed to either share the title or fully awarding it to the long disbanded Maroons.

The lone other title in Cardinals history came in 1947, while still in Chicago, in a game against the City Of Brotherly Love Eagles. The same two squads would play the followers twelvemonth with the Eagles coming out victorious. The Cardinals have got got never returned to a title game and have the longer title drought. In fact, until 2008 the Cardinals had only won two playoff games and had never been in a conference title game since 1947. The Cardinals moved to St Joe Louis in 1960 and Capital Of Arizona in 1988. However, the "Phoenix" Cardinals never played in Phoenix, but instead played at Grand Canyon State State University's Sun Satan bowl in Tempe, Az. In 1994 they changed their name to one more than fitting; the Grand Canyon State Cardinals, and in 2006 finally had their ain bowl in Glendale, Az.