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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. [2] 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 city of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States is home to more than a dozen professional, semi-professional, and collegiate sports teams. The Sporting News rated St. Louis the nation's "Best Sports City" in 2000 [1] and the Wall Street Journal named it the best sports city in 2015. [2] St. Louis has three major league sports teams.
The ballpark (by then known as Busch Stadium, but still commonly called Sportsman's Park) was also the home to professional football: in 1923, it hosted St. Louis' first NFL team, the All-Stars, and later hosted the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League from 1960 (following the team's relocation from Chicago) until 1965, with ...
The St. Louis Gunners were an independent professional football team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that played the last three games of the 1934 National Football League season, replacing the Cincinnati Reds on the league schedule after the Reds' league membership was suspended.
St. Louis Eagles (1934 relocation of the original Ottawa Senators, folded after the 1934–35 season) Ice hockey National Hockey League: St. Louis Gunners (independent team, joined the NFL for the last three weeks of the 1934 season and folded thereafter) American football National Football League: St. Louis Giants/Stars (1906–1931)
Later in 2008, St. Louis bid for one of two MLS expansion slots to enter the league in 2011. St. Louis was considered one of the early front runners, [14] due in part to the city's soccer history and a stadium plan. [15] But the St. Louis bid lacked an ownership group with deep pockets, and MLS awarded the expansion slots to Portland and Vancouver.
Missouri football state championships. CLASS 6. Quarterfinals. Christian Bros. College 35, Jackson 23. Liberty North 38, Oak Park 7. Rockhurst 38, Nixa 14
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 ...