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hahaha... that was wayyyyyyy back in the day. Cheese in pre-jersey gear!
Questions about the Cards playing at Sun Devil Stadium
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hahaha... that was wayyyyyyy back in the day. Cheese in pre-jersey gear!
Here's a photo from the 2003 game where the Chargers played the Dolphins at SDS. The game was moved to Phoenix after wildfires threatened a number of areas around San Diego. They let you sit wherever you wanted to sit, admission was free with a donation, and there was a pretty "interesting" crowd there.
Chargers brought some banners to hang on the sidelines and their cheerleaders.
By the way, regarding the vendors, each of the concession booths were manned by a fundraising group. I remember that the group that served beer near 106 was north valley gymnastics or desert gymnastics. I always gave them a tip for the "gymnasts". And I did make it to one meet one time. I remember I bought a giant bag of Kettle Corn down there.
Chargers brought some banners to hang on the sidelines and their cheerleaders.
By the way, regarding the vendors, each of the concession booths were manned by a fundraising group. I remember that the group that served beer near 106 was north valley gymnastics or desert gymnastics. I always gave them a tip for the "gymnasts". And I did make it to one meet one time. I remember I bought a giant bag of Kettle Corn down there.
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Big crowd it looks like. Must've been an electric atmosphere...
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Good endzone paint job on such short notice
There it is! Awesome! Thanks for finding that!
Ah to be young again...and for some reason I really want a beer right now.
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The picture I have has a lot of the screen names on it sort of like a facebook photo. It's priceless.
I'm in the back between Section 11 and Cheesebeef, I still have the mustache, but there seems to be quite a few white hairs in it now!
That's right. Forgot to mention that.
Trivia question of the week. Who took the picture?????
My avatar is a vomit boy special too. I only made a couple of the meet-ups at SDS. Someone took a picture of O, Gee and me and I've never seen it posted here and I have no idea who took it
Gee? BIM? Either of you guys remember? Probably Kooter. Who promptly forgot who we were.
Tim always remembered me. It was Kooter who, after spending the entire halftime meet talking with me who would have no idea who I was two weeks later.
Ah the good old days when I could make 4-6 games a year.
Ah the good old days when I could make 4-6 games a year.
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This is an awesome thread
.....as a Cardinas fan for over 30 years, SDS has a speciallace in my heart since it was the setting for the only time I saw the Cardinals as the Home team.....it was a 26-20 OT loss to the Steelers on the Sunday before Thanksgiving (i think) in 1997......rookie Jake Plummer led a nice comeback with TD passes to Chris Gedney and Rob Moore, and we had a chance to win at the end of regulation but Joe Nedney snap hooked a long one into the parking lot.....that was the first time I was ever "surrounded" by other Cardinals fans, and it was was glorious.....I was there with a Steelers fan buddy, and there was so much black and gold in the stands he was calling the place "Three Devils Stadium"......it would be another 11+ years until I was with so many Cards fans - the Super Bowl in Tampa......Cardinals for Life!
.....as a Cardinas fan for over 30 years, SDS has a speciallace in my heart since it was the setting for the only time I saw the Cardinals as the Home team.....it was a 26-20 OT loss to the Steelers on the Sunday before Thanksgiving (i think) in 1997......rookie Jake Plummer led a nice comeback with TD passes to Chris Gedney and Rob Moore, and we had a chance to win at the end of regulation but Joe Nedney snap hooked a long one into the parking lot.....that was the first time I was ever "surrounded" by other Cardinals fans, and it was was glorious.....I was there with a Steelers fan buddy, and there was so much black and gold in the stands he was calling the place "Three Devils Stadium"......it would be another 11+ years until I was with so many Cards fans - the Super Bowl in Tampa......Cardinals for Life!
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So looking at various videos in this thread it shows both teams coming on to the field from the north endzone. I didn't realize there were two separate locker rooms on that end. ASU always came out from the south side.
I just figured the Cards/Devils shared one, apparently not.
I just figured the Cards/Devils shared one, apparently not.
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To piggyback off my own question i found ranking of visitor locker rooms in Pac 10 stadiums and it showed some pics...
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So the crappy visitor locker rooms for college were the Cardinals' home locker room for NFL games? How lame is that??
So where were the visitors locker rooms for NFL teams since they also came out from the North endzone?
Sorry for the wierd questions i just really want to know...
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Oh that special smell of the the mud- the blood and the beer- UP is so clinical - SDS was raw. You could shout across the field at the other fan in attendence! I remember the FG against San Diego that sent us to the playoffs in 98- The Achy Breaky Heart dude having a concert after a bears game- That was their idea of fan appreciation!
I was screaming at the top of my lungs in the middle of one of the bigger crowds- the ret o the place seemed quiet the Cards were doing great and I was doing my best hillbilly cheerleading to get the crowd to wake the hell up!
Come the 3rd 1/4 the Bears finally scored and the crowd explolded- I was drunk-mad and felt total incomprehensive demoralization calling out the stupid bear crowd - 1 transplant at a time.
When I felt a tap on my shoulder and my cousins daughter said- Dad said you were our cousin and and you need to come sit with us- So up the bleachers I went a long way- and I set with my cousin and his girls- and cheered for the Cardinals in a sea of BLACK! That is one reason I hate them stupid Black Card unis- The Arizona Bears we are not!
But when things were right- SDS was more Raw than UP - just get down and waller in the mud naked Arizona Cardinals Football Club fanhood! You know burn your East coast bias on the bench- stupid non Cardinal rest of the world - We not only survive hell- We thrive in it! With enough beer we can do anything!
I was screaming at the top of my lungs in the middle of one of the bigger crowds- the ret o the place seemed quiet the Cards were doing great and I was doing my best hillbilly cheerleading to get the crowd to wake the hell up!
Come the 3rd 1/4 the Bears finally scored and the crowd explolded- I was drunk-mad and felt total incomprehensive demoralization calling out the stupid bear crowd - 1 transplant at a time.
When I felt a tap on my shoulder and my cousins daughter said- Dad said you were our cousin and and you need to come sit with us- So up the bleachers I went a long way- and I set with my cousin and his girls- and cheered for the Cardinals in a sea of BLACK! That is one reason I hate them stupid Black Card unis- The Arizona Bears we are not!
But when things were right- SDS was more Raw than UP - just get down and waller in the mud naked Arizona Cardinals Football Club fanhood! You know burn your East coast bias on the bench- stupid non Cardinal rest of the world - We not only survive hell- We thrive in it! With enough beer we can do anything!
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I remember this game too. The refs didn't want to go into the tunnel after robbing us of a win. They were right because as they ran into the tunnel they got a storm of trash rained down on them. And they deserved it.
This is actually a good sum up of our time in SDS. Us vs. the World wasn't just an attitude...it was a reality.
Sadly the world usually won.
What game was it that the fans in the upper West side got so mad at the officials they were throwing water bottles etc on to the field? Also which game was it some Arizona writer said the fans should boycott the game and then the Cards won that Sunday and fans were chanting the guys name?
I don't remember the game but it was Pedro Gomez.
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I only have one memory: LOSING
The Cards not only lost, they invented new ways nearly every week to throw away a game. It was painfully funny, sick, and sad at the same time. There is no way you would have believed it if it were a movie. It was almost like the players were searching desperately to find a way to lose each game.
If it would have been just one or two players, it could have been solved. But players took turns play after play, quarter after quarter, and game after game. I have never seen in my over 60 yrs of watching and loving all sports, such a collection of losers, born and bred. The team, management, and players should have all been going to therapy. Losing was such a part of their psyche that it was actually too painful for most of the city to want to watch each week.
My all time favorite (worst) painful memory was the game that the Cards had won. On the last play of the game the ball was rolling around on the ground just inches from the back line of the end zone. All a typical Cards player had to do was slap, knock, or even kick it a foot out of the end zone to end the game. But instead for some reason that is only Cardinal logic, he bent over and tried to pick up the ball. He failed to grab it securely and eventually if was recovered in the end zone for the winning TD by the opposition. Any fool from pop warner league on would have known to simply knock the ball out of the end zone and you win. But only the Cardinal players would not have realized the situation or the score of the game to register such a thought.
The Cards not only lost, they invented new ways nearly every week to throw away a game. It was painfully funny, sick, and sad at the same time. There is no way you would have believed it if it were a movie. It was almost like the players were searching desperately to find a way to lose each game.
If it would have been just one or two players, it could have been solved. But players took turns play after play, quarter after quarter, and game after game. I have never seen in my over 60 yrs of watching and loving all sports, such a collection of losers, born and bred. The team, management, and players should have all been going to therapy. Losing was such a part of their psyche that it was actually too painful for most of the city to want to watch each week.
My all time favorite (worst) painful memory was the game that the Cards had won. On the last play of the game the ball was rolling around on the ground just inches from the back line of the end zone. All a typical Cards player had to do was slap, knock, or even kick it a foot out of the end zone to end the game. But instead for some reason that is only Cardinal logic, he bent over and tried to pick up the ball. He failed to grab it securely and eventually if was recovered in the end zone for the winning TD by the opposition. Any fool from pop warner league on would have known to simply knock the ball out of the end zone and you win. But only the Cardinal players would not have realized the situation or the score of the game to register such a thought.
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I believe it was the cowpukes game when the Cardinals were rallying in the second half and on the final play Plumer does the high fade to Rob Moore in the back corner of the endzone. Deon (who is nowhere near as good as Aeneas Williams) absolutely mugs Moore. No flags game over. We lose. Refs suck.
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