Pro Player Insiders is working on educating the casual and hardcore football fan alike with a series of informative stories that will run over the course of the next couple of months. We will look to find out the origin of team names, obscure league history, and little known facts about each NFL team. Today, we continue our series of things you might not know with five things about the Arizona Cardinals.
Arizona Cardinals
- The Cardinals were founded in 1896. They are the oldest continuously run American football team in the U.S.
- In 2008, the Cardinals scored 427 points to set the single season franchise record.
- The Cardinals were originally named the Morgan Athletic Club.
- The Cardinals have made 8 playoff appearances in their team’s history (1947, 1948, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1998, 2008, 2009).
- The Cardinals hold the NFL’s longest active championship drought. They haven’t won a championship since 1947.
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