The Cardinals are the oldest professional American football club in the United States.[2][3][4] This should not be confused with the longest original city team (the Green Bay Packers) because the team known now as the Arizona Cardinals was originally formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago. The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located in Normal Park on Chicago's Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken in the notes from an early APFA meeting). They then changed their name to the Racine Cardinals after they started wearing dark reddish uniforms, inherited from the collegiate Chicago Maroons.
The Cardinals moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 becoming the St. Louis Cardinals, often called "The Football Cardinals" or the "The Big Red" in order to distinguish them from the baseball team, and also were called "The Cardiac Cards" during some brushes with success in the 1970s.
