24 Facts About Phoenix Cardinals

The Cardinals compete in the National Football League as a member of the National Football Conference West division, and play their home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, a suburb northwest of Phoenix.

The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States, as well as one of only two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding, the other from Chicago, the Chicago Bears.

From 1988 to 2012, the Phoenix Cardinals conducted their annual summer training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

The Cardinals moved their training camp to State Farm Stadium in 2013.

Phoenix Cardinals have won two NFL championships, both while the team were in Chicago.

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In 2012, the Phoenix Cardinals became the first NFL franchise to lose 700 games since its inception.

The Phoenix Cardinals were guilty of breaking NFL rules when they had scheduled two additional games, playing against the Hammond Pros and the Milwaukee Badgers, both of whom had already disbanded for the season.

The Phoenix Cardinals experienced some success on the playing field during their first 26 seasons in the league.

The overall mediocrity of the Phoenix Cardinals, combined with a then-21-year-old stadium, caused game attendance to dwindle, and owner Bill Bidwill decided to move the team to Arizona.

In 2008, the Phoenix Cardinals, led by quarterback Kurt Warner, won the NFC Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time in their history.

Phoenix Cardinals moved to Arizona in 1988, and the flag of Arizona was added to the sleeves the following year.

In 1994, the Phoenix Cardinals participated in the NFL's 75th-anniversary throwback uniform program.

The Phoenix Cardinals stripped the logos from their helmets for two games: at Cleveland and home vs Pittsburgh.

In 2002, the Phoenix Cardinals began to wear all-red and all-white combinations, and continued to do so through 2004, prior to the team's makeover.

However, the following season, in 2007, the Phoenix Cardinals again wore their red pants for their final 3 home games.

However, this tradition did not continue when the Phoenix Cardinals moved from Sun Devil Stadium to State Farm Stadium in 2006, as early-season games were played with the roof closed.

The Phoenix Cardinals wore white jerseys at home for the first time at State Farm Stadium on August 29,2008, in a preseason game against the Denver Broncos.

Phoenix Cardinals wore white at home for the first time in a regular-season game at State Farm Stadium against the Houston Texans on October 11,2009.

From 1970 through 1983, and again in many seasons between 1989 and 2002, the Phoenix Cardinals would wear white when hosting the Dallas Cowboys in order to force the Cowboys to don their "jinxed" blue jerseys.

In 2017, the Phoenix Cardinals debuted an all-black set for the NFL Color Rush program.

The Phoenix Cardinals' streak ended against the Rams the following season.

Italics = played a portion of career with the Phoenix Cardinals and enshrined representing another teamDierdorf, Smith, Wehrli and Wilson were members of the St Louis Football Ring of Fame in The Dome at America's Center when the Rams played there from 1995 to 2015.

The Phoenix Cardinals were the first NFL team to offer all 20 preseason and regular season games on Spanish-language radio, doing so in 2000.

The Phoenix Cardinals have the most extensive Mexican affiliate network in the NFL, with contracts with Grupo Larsa and Grupo Radiorama and stations in 20 cities, including Hermosillo, Guadalajara and Mexico City.