The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix.

The Cardinals are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

Their lone NFL championship game victory, in 1947, while based in Chicago, came two decades before the first Super Bowl Game was played.

In 2006 the club began playing all home games at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, after spending 17 years at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.

The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located in Normal Park on Chicago's Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken in the notes from an early APFA meeting).

After becoming a charter member of the NFL in 1920, the club was renamed the Chicago Cardinals, in part to distinguish them from a new franchise that was actually placed in Racine, Wisconsin.

In 1944, during the lean years of World War II, the Cardinals temporarily merged into the Pittsburgh Steelers and became one franchise, usually referred to as Card-Pitt, for that one season.

The Cardinals moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 becoming the St. Louis Cardinals, often called the "Football Cardinals" or the "Grid Birds" to distinguish them from the baseball team, and also sometimes called "The Big Red" during some brushes with success in the 1970s.

Despite moving to St. Louis and then to their current location, the Arizona Cardinals for decades remained in either an Eastern conference or division.

New York Giants vs Arizona Cardinals, Week 4 2011 (HQ)