The Real Reason why the Cardinals left St Louis.

[denverbirdfan]

The Cards have been in Arizona now almost as long as they were in St Louis. This story doesn't really have any relevance anymore except as an historical footnote. To me, once the Maricopa voters passed the referendum to build the stadium, this community earned possession of the team, in a way the most communities never had to. They really became the Arizona Cardinals at that point and they don't belong anywhere else. And the promise that the team would be able to pull its crap together in return for the faith shown by the voters has largely come true. Its a pretty good marriage.

That said, I'm sorry StL got such a bad deal for the Rams and may lose that team in spite of making every concession in the world. I do hope the Rams stay in St Louis. No one deserves to get screwed like that, no matter what anyone thinks about how they handled things 25 years ago.

To many of us on this board, that story has a ton of relevance.

I hear you, but the Cardinals to me will always be bigger than just Arizona. Consider being 9 years old, standing in a flipping freezing Busch Stadium with your dad, a St. Louis Cardinals season ticket holder, cheering Lomax to Roy Green touchdowns to beat the Cowboys. Wearing your O.J. Anderson jersey to school and playing football with your friends wearing your Cardinals helmet. There are lots of guys on this board who (I'm sure) had similar experiences. Heck, maybe even some of them watched games at Comiskey Park in Chicago!

I actually ended up living in Tempe from 1996-2002 and sat many many hot afternoons on metal bleachers in Sun Devil Stadium. Was there for 1998 - oh my how fun was that? Helped tear down a goal post after the Cowboys were beat. Saw QB play as bad as Dave Brown...

I've never been to the new stadium, but someday I'm taking my wife and 2 girls back and can't wait to actually be in a stadium the Big Red own!

And I'll be there tonight, in St. Louis, seeing lots of old vintage t-shirts and jerseys and giving high fives to old, long time fans. The Cardinals could pick up and move to Boise tomorrow, and we'd still be Cardinals fans. We're married to them

On to 5-0! For the first time since those 1974 St. Louis Cardinals!

 

[ASUCHRIS]

I can't imagine how tailgating could be better than this.....

Same setup, somewhere other than BFE Glendale?

 

[Mulli]

Same setup, somewhere other than BFE Glendale?

OMG, I have to take the freeway for 45 min! Wahhhh.

 

[Jetstream Green]

To many of us on this board, that story has a ton of relevance.

I hear you, but the Cardinals to me will always be bigger than just Arizona. Consider being 9 years old, standing in a flipping freezing Busch Stadium with your dad, a St. Louis Cardinals season ticket holder, cheering Lomax to Roy Green touchdowns to beat the Cowboys. Wearing your O.J. Anderson jersey to school and playing football with your friends wearing your Cardinals helmet. There are lots of guys on this board who (I'm sure) had similar experiences. Heck, maybe even some of them watched games at Comiskey Park in Chicago!

I actually ended up living in Tempe from 1996-2002 and sat many many hot afternoons on metal bleachers in Sun Devil Stadium. Was there for 1998 - oh my how fun was that? Helped tear down a goal post after the Cowboys were beat. Saw QB play as bad as Dave Brown...

I've never been to the new stadium, but someday I'm taking my wife and 2 girls back and can't wait to actually be in a stadium the Big Red own!

And I'll be there tonight, in St. Louis, seeing lots of old vintage t-shirts and jerseys and giving high fives to old, long time fans. The Cardinals could pick up and move to Boise tomorrow, and we'd still be Cardinals fans. We're married to them

On to 5-0! For the first time since those 1974 St. Louis Cardinals!

I will always see the Cardinals with a little of St. Louis in them, that is when those sneaky redbirds made me a fan and I'm in Texas. You do not really choose your favorite professional team to an extent, they choose you...sort of like love