Arizona Cardinals from NFL jerseys blog
A high-flying passing game is what the Cardinals are known for. They have the best pair of wide receivers in the league in Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. Add in Steve Breaston, and you have a trio of 1,000-yard receivers that a re-signed Kurt Warner can throw to.
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American Football team based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals are members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.
The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in 1920. The club moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 and played in that city through 1987. Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, an eastern suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Stadium. In 2006 the club began playing all home games at the newly constructed University of Phoenix Stadium in the northwestern suburb of Glendale.
The franchise’s lone NFL championship game victory came in 1947 while they were based in Chicago, and came two decades before the first Super Bowl game was ever played. The club’s other NFL championship occurred in 1925, eight years before the league began holding a championship game, and is a controversial title to this day. The much contested title was believed to belong to the Pottsville Maroons but was given to the Cardinals instead in what is called the 1925 NFL Championship controversy. In the six-plus decades since winning the championship in 1947, the Cardinals have qualified for the playoffs only six times and have won only five playoff games, three of which were achieved during their run in the 2008-09 NFL Playoffs in which they reached Super Bowl XLIII.
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Single-season records
Points Scored: 427 (2008)
Passing
- Passing Yards: 4,583 Kurt Warner (2008)
- Passing Touchdowns: 30 Kurt Warner (2008)
- Passes Completed: 401 Kurt Warner (2008)
- Passes Attempted: 598 Kurt Warner (2008)
- Longest Completed Pass Thrown: 98 Yards Doug Russell (1932) / Ogden Compton (1957) / Jim Hart (1972)
- Consecutive Games With a Touchdown Pass : 22 Kurt Warner (2007-2008)
Rushing
- Rushing Yards: 1605 Ottis Anderson (1979)
- Rushing Attempts: 337 Edgerrin James (2006)
- Rushing Touchdowns: 14 John David Crow (1962)
- Rushing Touchdowns (Rookie) : 10 Tim Hightower (2008)
- Longest Rushing Attempt : 83 yards John David Crow (1958)
- Rushing Yards Per Game : 100.3 yards Ottis Anderson (1979)
Receiving
- Receptions: 103 Larry Fitzgerald (2005)
- Receiving Yards: 1,596 David Boston (2001)
- Receiving Touchdowns: 15 Sonny Randle (1960)
Returns
- Punt Returns in a Season: 44 Vai Sikahema (1987)
- Longest Punt Returns: 95 yards Frank Bernardi (1956)
Kicking
- Field Goals: 40* Neil Rackers (2005)
- Extra Points Made: 53 Pat Harder (1948)
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Cardinals career records
- Passing Yards: 34,639 Jim Hart(1966–1983)
- Passing Touchdowns: 209 Jim Hart(1966–1983)
- Rushing Yards: 7,999 Ottis Anderson (1979–1986)
- Receptions: 535 Larry Centers (1991–1998)
- Receiving Yards: 8,496 Roy Green (1979–1990)
- Pass Interceptions: 54 Larry Wilson (1960–2002)[49]
- Field Goals Made: 282 Jim Bakken(1962-1978)
- Points: 1,380 Jim Bakken (1962-1978)
- Total Touchdowns: 69 Roy Green (1979–1990)
- Punt Return Average: 17.7 Red Cochran (1947–1949)
- Kickoff Return Average: 28.5 Ollie Matson (1952–1958)
- Punting Average: 45.0 Jerry Norton (1959–1961)
- Sacks: 66.5 Freddie Joe Nunn (1985–1993)
The Cardinals reaching the Super Bowl was one of the more far-fetched playoff runs that we have seen in recent memory. Who knew a team that seemed so unbalanced on offense and flawed on defense would be one drive away from becoming Super Bowl champs?
Defensive tackle and Super Bowl standout Darnell Dockett has also been looking for a new deal. Dockett has already asked to be traded twice, knowing that the Cardinals have no interest in giving him more money since he inked a $22 million dollar extension in 2006.