What year did you become a Cardinal fan?

[SissyBoyFloyd]

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[Gee!]

1988. The year they moved to AZ.

 

[desertdawg]

The day that we became the "Phoenix Cardinals".

 

[NYCARDS]

Grew up in 1970s. My dad hated the Giants so I wanted to find a team in the division. cards were good back then and I liked their uniforms. Jim Hart, Pat Tilley, Mel Gray, Terry Metcalf - fun team to watch the two times a year they were on lol

 

[Jetstream Green]

1976, and I still have the Sears Roebuck merchandise down to my tiny sweater and bathrobe to prove my loyalty lol

 

[English on tour]

'84 for me.

I was still in school and Channel 4 had started showing the NFL and I wanted a team to support.

My mates dad had been to the states and brought him and his brother a cowboys and skins jersey, lid and pads. I wanted a team that played in red and white like my football (soccer team) and that week I got Neil Lomax in a pack of stickers/collecting cards. I made a wooden box in woodwork with the cards logo chiseled on the lid.... Super Bowl, one game and only sat morning weekly highlights, Forces radio, weekly football newspaper every Thursday for about 20 years... Then regular TV scheduling and the internet made life so much easier on us UK fans.

Anyway, 30 years in and bloody love it.

 

[wembley88]

Like EOT above, started when TV over here first picked it up. Just gravitated to Cards over next year or so.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Since I was 7... Almost 33 years ago.

 

[Darkside]

God, I don't even remember, it was just before Neil Lomax, but I became a huge fan after that. Think I started watching them on TV when I was 9 or so. So 78 or 79.

I became a huge fan when they got Coryell though. He's one of my favorite coaches and when he went to San Diego they then became my favorite team.

I watched Dan Fouts whole career. Hated Chuck Muncie and Benerschka, however you spell their stupid kickers name. Also saw Kellen Winslow and Charlie Joiner's whole career. Joiner was one-handing balls inbounds before these kids were born, way before Chris Carter and Moss, and the rest.

That's back when football was still a man's game, when it was deadly to go over the middle, when you could still hit mofos. Now it's for sissies and *******. To get the numbers they racked up is incredible.

Anyway, I was a Cardinal fan as soon as they moved here. I went to a lot more games at SDS than I do now. I was young then.

 

[MrYeahBut]

I'm at 50 years on the button. I'm not an historian or anything like that, I've just been a fan, followed them and rooted for them all these years. Only got to see them play one time before they came to Arizona. I went to see them play the Packers at Busch stadium.



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[Cards Czar]

1968 and still believing!!!

 

[NMCard]

1988

 

[Garthshort]

1947. I was already a baseball Cardinals fan (1946), and as a typical kid I went with the winners. Not so typical, I was and am a New Yorker, and just about all my friends were fans of the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants (baseball and football). The football Cards won in '47 and lost the championship in a snow storm in '48, and I thought that they'd win every year. Well you know the rest of the story.

 

[juza76]

after i watched jerry maguire movie

 

[desertdawg]

after i watched jerry maguire movie

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Wow!

Where are all the old timers ? No offense, I mean that in all respect.

We have some posters that have some years on them. More than 2.

40yrfan was around when they slaughtered the first pig to make the first football, heck he drove to the event.

I became a Cardinals fan 1998-1999 season, when they beat the Cowboys in the playoffs I swore my football loyalty to them, and they will be the team I root for till I am in my grave........and probably after that, too.

Good poll.

 

[PJ1]

1967 for me.

 

[Mainstreet]

I have been a Cardinals fan since they moved to Arizona in 1988.

Prior to that I was a Dallas Cowboys fan as those were the most likely games to be televised in the Valley.

 

[StreetTruckinTitan]

1988 Phoenix Cardinals

 

[Capital Card]

1988, inaugural season for me.


Go Cards!!!

 

[PACardsFan]

1964, so it's been exactly 50 for me. Grew up in Syracuse, NY. My Dad & I were diehard Cardinal baseball fans & I had just watched the Cardinals dispose of the mighty Yankees. That weekend I started watching the NFL. My Dad wasn't a pro football fan at the time, so he let me pick what team we would root for. As soon as I saw that there was a St. Louis Cardinals team in football, it only made sense to root for them too. They had some really good teams throughout the 60's!!

 

[CardNots]

1988

 

[Dr. Jones]

Shoulda had a poll options of:

0-15
15-25
25-35
35-50
50+

With 1988 being 26 years ago, most people will fall into that category.

 

[dylanbw]

1979, age 8

God, I don't even remember, it was just before Neil Lomax, but I became a huge fan after that. Think I started watching them on TV when I was 9 or so. So 78 or 79.

I became a huge fan when they got Coryell though. He's one of my favorite coaches and when he went to San Diego they then became my favorite team.

I watched Dan Fouts whole career. Hated Chuck Muncie and Benerschka, however you spell their stupid kickers name. Also saw Kellen Winslow and Charlie Joiner's whole career. Joiner was one-handing balls inbounds before these kids were born, way before Chris Carter and Moss, and the rest.

That's back when football was still a man's game, when it was deadly to go over the middle, when you could still hit mofos. Now it's for sissies and *******. To get the numbers they racked up is incredible.

Anyway, I was a Cardinal fan as soon as they moved here. I went to a lot more games at SDS than I do now. I was young then.

Despite always living in NJ, I have been following the football Cardinals since the tail end of the Jim Hart era. My father was a baseball Cardinals fan since the Stan Musial days, so I got the STL Cardinals from him, and I thought it was cool that there was a football team of the same name. The rest is history.

Neil Lomax was my idol as a young boy, and I'll never forget the feeling of being at the Super Bowl in Tampa and hugging complete strangers when Fitz gave us the lead late in the game. Alas, it was not meant to beat that time, but Coach Arians has brought us some good times so perhpas this is finally our year!

 

[NJCardFan]

1975. Back in the day when a few in my neighborhood were Dolphins fans mostly because they went to 3 straight Super Bowls, won 2, and went undefeated. One kid was a Colt fan. Most were Eagles fans and they were horrible back then. A couple of years before that, my dad had bought my brother and I wind breakers and for some reason my brother got a Steeler one and mine was Vikings so I went for the Vikings even though I was more of a hockey fan than football. But one day I was looking through the newspaper and saw "St. Louis" in first place in the NFC East so I started rooting for them and I've been with them ever since.