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During the Cardinals' tenure in St. Louis, they were locally called the "Big Red", the "Football Cardinals", or "the Gridbirds" in order to avoid confusion with the baseball team. [1] The Cardinals played in the original Busch Stadium as tenants of the baseball team. St. Louis had not had a professional football team since the early days of the ...
The football Cardinals called St. Louis and Busch Stadium/Busch Memorial Stadium home through the 1987 season, after which the Cardinals migrated to Phoenix to become the Arizona Cardinals. [17] [18] Local sports fans and media coverage referred to the two teams as the "baseball Cardinals" and "football Cardinals". For decades before the NFL ...
The history of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball franchise spans from 1875 to the present. For more information on specific periods within club history, refer to one of the following articles: History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1875–1919) History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1920–52) History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1953–89)
This category is all NFL players who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, now known as the Arizona Cardinals. There are separate categories for each era of the franchise: Category:Chicago Cardinals players (1920–1959) Category:St. Louis Cardinals (football) players (1960–1987) Category:Phoenix Cardinals players (1988–1993)
The 1972 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 53rd year with the National Football League and thirteenth in St. Louis. On September 2, Bill Bidwill purchased the stock of his brother Charles "Stormy" Bidwill to become sole owner of the Cardinals.
The St. Louis Cardinals' Busch Stadium during its first season in 2006. See footnote [5] St. Louis is represented in Major League Baseball by the Cardinals, founded in 1882 and playing in the National League since 1892. The team won its first World Series in 1926 and its 11th and most recent in 2011.
The original design of the stadium called for a baseball-only format, but after the NFL's Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis at the end of the 1959 season, becoming known as the football Cardinals in St. Louis, the design was altered to accommodate football as well: the football Cardinals would share Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium with the ...
The 1973 St. Louis Cardinals season was the franchise's 54th season in the National Football League (NFL). Led by first-year head coach Don Coryell , the Cardinals matched their previous output of 4–9–1, finishing with that record for the third straight season. [ 1 ]