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.