Okay kids, it's Super Bowl week. All week I'll post something related to the game in some way. If you weren't aware, the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Arizona Cardinals. You know plenty about the Steelers: 5 Super Bowl wins, the Steel Curtain, Terry Bradshaw, etc. But who the hell are the Arizona Cardinals? Here are a few things you might not know about the team that nobody expected to be playing in the Super Bowl...ever.
The Cardinals finished the regular season with a 9-7 record
The Cardinals were originally based in Chicago. They started as an amateur athletic club in 1898. In 1922, the Chicago Cardinals were formed. The team moved in 1960 and would call St. Louis home for 28 years (in which they only made the playoffs 3 times). In 1988 the team then moved to Arizona and continued to suck until this year when they were kind of good and somehow made it to the Super Bowl.
The Cardinals are owned by Bill Bidwell. I only mention this because he wears a bow tie. By the way, if you are jonesing to get some action, and the game itself isn't enough, you can bet on what color Bidwell's bow tie will be (red is the favorite). And don't worry, I'll give you some more prop bets later this week.
The Cardinals finished DFL (dead freaking last) in rushing this year with only 1,178 yards. Consider that 9 NFL players rushed for more individual yards than the entire Cardinals team.
The Cardinals drafted Joe Namath in 1965, who, in the same year, was also drafted by the New York Jets. The Cardinals were part of the NFL and the Jets were members of the AFL. They were two seperate entities and held seperate drafts. The Jets offered Namath a $400,000 contract and he signed with the Jets. Try to imagine Broadway Joe wearing Cardinal gear, hard to do isn't it.
The most famous Cardinal player ever, sadly, is probably Rod Tidwell (show me the moneeeyyyy!!!)
There you go. Everything you didn't care about knowing about the Arizona Cardinals. But now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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