All football fans have their pre-game and put up-game foods, like pizza and wings with beer. A convention at Arizona Cardinals games is for the fans to eat their groups' colors for the tailgate parties. Among the many extra common dishes are the Sonoran Desert Canine - manufactured from a spicy sausage topped with purple pepper and a yellow corn relish, or a purple tortilla filled with chicken and cheese. As for desert, our Cardinal fans favor a yellow or black tortilla baked and coated with cinnamon sugar served with pink-coloured fruit salsa and whipped cream.
The Arizona Cardinals is the oldest lively team in American Football. They began as a mere athletic club in Chicago in 1898, often called the Morgan Athletic Club. By 1913 the Racine Cardinals would flip professional and in 1920 they'd develop into a constitution member of the American Skilled Football Association, which grew to become the National Football League in 1922. The one two charter groups still in existence are the Cardinals and the Chicago Bears, who have been the Decatur Staleys prior to shifting to Chicago in 1921. In 1922 the Cardinals grew to become the Chicago Cardinals after the league placed a workforce in Racine, WI to keep away from confusion.
In 1925 the Cardinals received their first championship. In 1925 the league awarded the championship to the crew with one of the best report instead of having a postseason. Nonetheless, that championship would fall under controversy, and in the long run wouldn't be officially awarded to anyone. The 1925 Pottsville Maroons defeated the Cardinals 21-7, thus giving them the very best record within the league. Nevertheless, the league stripped them of the title after the Maroons played a team comprised of College of Notre Dame all-stars in Philadelphia, citing that the game violated the Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise rights since it was played on the same day the Yellow Jackets had been scheduled to play. The league had threatened the Maroons previous to the game. The NFL had tried to formally award the championship to the Cardinals but Coach Chris O'Brien felt his staff did not deserve it since they'd lost pretty to the Maroons. The league acknowledges the Cardinals because the champions to at the present time despite a number of attempts by groups to have the decision reversed to either share the championship or totally award it to the lengthy disbanded Maroons.
The only different championship in Cardinals historical past came in 1947, while nonetheless in Chicago, in a game towards the Philadelphia Eagles. The identical two teams would play the following 12 months with the Eagles coming out victorious. The Cardinals have by no means returned to a championship recreation and have the longest championship drought. In truth, until 2008 the Cardinals had solely won two playoff games and had by no means been in a conference championship game since 1947. The Cardinals moved to St Louis in 1960 and Phoenix in 1988. However, the "Phoenix" Cardinals never played in Phoenix, however as a substitute played at Arizona State University's Sun Devil stadium in Tempe, Az. In 1994 they modified their title to at least one more fitting; the Arizona Cardinals, and in 2006 finally had their very own stadium in Glendale, Az.