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dgtlfnk t1_j3ndt1l wrote

> …the team has existed for over 100 years.

Wait WHAT??

> The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920.[5] The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States,[2][7] as well as one of only two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding, the other also from Chicago, the Chicago Bears (the Green Bay Packers were an independent team and did not join the NFL until a year after its creation in 1921).

Well damn. TIL.

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unrealjoe28 t1_j3nnzjz wrote

Fuckers stole an NFL title from my Pottsville maroons. Until they return that title they’ll never win a super bowl. NEVER.

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dgtlfnk t1_j3nocfh wrote

I read this in an ol’ timey film actor’s voice. Just needed a couple “See?’s” and “,that’s what’s”. Lol!

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MarijadderallMD t1_j3o25ke wrote

But… they did win a Super Bowl😅

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unrealjoe28 t1_j3o5h7n wrote

Oh wow TIL the Cardinals won the super bowl

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MarijadderallMD t1_j3ovoxf wrote

Ya no apparently I was so devastated that they threw it away at the end that I blocked it from my memory and misremembered😅

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[deleted] t1_j3o77v6 wrote

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MarijadderallMD t1_j3oviq9 wrote

Oh wait shit, you’re right, they threw it away right at the end! Yikes, I really blocked that from my memory🤯

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Your_Fan_Shran t1_j3o67en wrote

They originally wore old hand-me-down jerseys from the University of Chicago Maroons, which after having been washed too many times had faded to become… cardinal red.

“Professional” football teams were not the main attraction back then.

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LordRobin------RM t1_j3q6adv wrote

Interesting. Somehow I’d gotten it into my head that the original meaning of the name was cardinals as in bishops. But that may actually be true. The Cardinals wear red and white, the same two colors as a Catholic cardinal.

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Your_Fan_Shran t1_j3q7j8q wrote

The color Catholic Cardinals wear is scarlet, which symbolizes the blood of Christ. It’s a different shade of red than what the football cardinals wear.

As I said above, the Chicago Cardinals got their name from the color of the faded jerseys:

>In 1898, Chicago painting and building contractor Chris O'Brien established an amateur Chicago-based athletic club football team named the "Morgan Athletic Club". O'Brien later moved them to Chicago's Normal Park and renamed them the "Racine Normals", since Normal Park was located on Racine Avenue in Chicago. In 1901, O'Brien bought used maroon uniforms from the University of Chicago, the colors of which had by then faded, leading O'Brien to exclaim, "That's not maroon; it's cardinal red!" It was then that the team changed its name to the "Racine Street Cardinals".[1]

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oatsack t1_j3rsiw6 wrote

Right you are. You know your nfl history. Also the OBrien brothers regular paying job was as house painters.

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RecordReviewer t1_j3pdn35 wrote

The Arizona Cardinals are actually older than the state of Arizona.

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rdldr1 t1_j3pc0cg wrote

More like the Arizona Wanderers.

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