How long have you been a Cardinals football fan?

[Southpaw]

When men were riding around on dinosaurs.

 

[Goldfield]

That is exactly how I started as well. PHX born and raised so I didnt really follow football until they moved here.

Same here

 

[Crazy Canuck]

"Chicago" Its an old Cherokee word for long suffering.

I think it's a Black Hawk term, as in Chicago Black Hawks (last Stanley Cup 1961)

 

[Urubu Rei]

Early 90's

I used to play soccer for a non professional team called Phoenix F.C.

I got interested when a sports TV in Brazil started to show some NFL games, and there was a Phoenix Cardinals.

That's how I've got into this mess...

 

[Duckjake]

Anyone surprised at how few new fans (2000s) there are posting here?

 

[Capital Card]

1988 for me.

I was a Cowboy fan growing up outside of Dallas in the 70's. Moved to Kansas City in 79 and became a Dolphin fan because a friend of mine was a fan of the team.

I moved to Arizona in 87 and gave up on the Dolphins for the Seahawks so I could support a west coast team.

Cards came to town the next year, been a fan ever since, and always will be.

Go Cards!!!

 

[phillycard]

Started watching them in 1974. First game was the Skins and Cards and Jim Hart was tearing them up!

Same exact story Twist!! Except it was 77 for me!

 

[Brian in Mesa]

1999, when Australian Cable finally started showing the NFL

Okay, that's when they started showing NFL games...

How did you choose the Cards out of all the teams?

 

[abomb]

1999. I didnt follow the NFL until I got divorced and grew a pair. D-Dogg was a fan by then and brought me up to speed.

 

[Redmark]

"Chicago" Its an old Cherokee word for long suffering.

Duck was this back in the days of black/white TV when all we got was the Bears thrashing the poor old Cardinals? That's when I started rooting for underdogs, have all my life.

 

[Mulli]

1999. I didnt follow the NFL until I got divorced and grew a pair. D-Dogg was a fan by then and brought me up to speed.

D-dogg got you hooked on the Cards, and you call me a jerk. Sheesh.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

D-dogg got you hooked on the Cards, and you call me a jerk. Sheesh.

 

[Wildfire]

Heck, I can remember Jim Hart as a rookie.

 

[Duckjake]

Still few relatively new fans. Only 30% since the 1990s/2000s I wonder why?

Maybe because long time fans are more likely to be outside of Arizona and more apt to look for information on the internet?

 

[Gambit]

Still few relatively new fans. Only 30% since the 1990s/2000s I wonder why?

Maybe because long time fans are more likely to be outside of Arizona and more apt to look for information on the internet?

Or maybe a lot of new fans would rather lurk and just observe the guys who know what they are talking. I don't have that problem--I have no real understanding of anything yet jump into the discourse willy-nilly.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

D-dogg got you hooked on the Cards, and you call me a jerk. Sheesh.

 

[MadCardDisease]

I moved to the Valley in 1996. I've been a Cardinal season ticket holder since 1997.

 

[FArting]

1998 when the cardinals beat the cowboys

 

[PrescottLooie]

I've been a fan since 95 when I moved to AZ from California.

 

[speedy]

Since 1988

 

[Duckjake]

I've been a fan since 95 when I moved to AZ from California.

I moved to the Valley in 1996. I've been a Cardinal season ticket holder since 1997

1998 when the cardinals beat the cowboys

So that's it. The newer fans sleep late.

 

[crisper57]

Since I grew up in New Mexico, my choices were the Cowboys, the Broncos, or the Cardinals. In the early 90's, I decided to root for the underdog. I stand by my choice.

 

[earthsci]

88

 

[English on tour]

about 1984/85 when my mates dad came back form the states with a Redskins shirt and helmet for him and a cowboys one for his brother. the game was getting big over here then and thought i needed a team so i picked the one closest to my football (soccer) team Sunderland's colours and thats how it began. Little did i know the two clubs would follow the same form for the next 20 odd years of abject faliure!

but its a love supreme and just just makes the good times even better

 

[Bada0Bing]

Became a casual fan when I moved here in 93. I’m still more of a NFL fan than a Cardinal fan, but I started following them more closely a few years ago.