History of Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals have a history already which is very long in the NFL, Arizona Cardinals website boasts of being the one of the most historic interrupted bowl teams in American professional soccer league in the USA. As from 1898 they are active but under the name of Morgan Athletic Club. The Arizona Cardinals have changed names several times and here’s the list of all their previous names:
1. Arizona Cardinals.
2. Phoenix Cardinals.
3. St. Louis Cardinals.
4. Chicago Cardinals.
5. Racine Cardinals.
6. The Normals.
7. Morgan Athletic Club.
Enough names for a team born in Chicago in the area of Icelandic emigrants in the late nineteenth century, who played under the name Morgan Athletic Club, whose first owner was Chris O’brien a contractor in the region who changed the name of the team to Normals for the year 1901 they were in a cheap Jersey, University of Chicago.
The teams’ jersey was not in brown but Cardinal Red, so they changed the name of the team to the Racine Cardinals. The team was disbanded in 1906, but was reorganized for the year 1913, and in 1917 under the direction of Coach Marshall Smith they became the champions of the Chicago Football League. In 1918 the team was dissolved again by the First World War and the epidemic flu spread.
The team was reorganized in 1920 when they joined the American Professional Football League and there was his first idol Ralph Bake in the corridor, in 1922 the Cardinals joined the NFL and were champions in 1925 to have the best record. Dr. David Jones bought the team in 1929 and after that Charles W. Bidwill acquired it for $ 50,000 in her remaining years and the team had very difficult years and even joined the Pittsburgh Steelers to play the season of 1944.
The Cardinals were champions in 1947, the year after they lost the final against Philadelphia, then play their next playoff game in 1974 that lost to the Minnesota Vikings. Arizona Cardinals next victory was not until 1998 playoffs against the Cowboys, (since 1947) and then until the 2008 season.
Until the season 2008 was one of the 6 teams in the NFL who had never reached the Super Bowl (the other five were the Cleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions, the Houston Texans, the Jacksonville Jaguars and New Orleans Saints, who won the Super Bowl XLIV in 2009). But on 18 January 2009 Arizona Cardinals got their place in their first Super Bowl by defeating the Philadelphia Eagles in the championship game of the NFC for the 2008 season, so the franchise broke that streak. In the Super Bowl XLIII were defeated 27-23 by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cardinals returned to qualify and be in the playoffs, beating Atlanta, Carolina and Philadelphia to reach the Super Bowl.
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